The Lost Chapter

Temporary Blindness

It is such a rare thing to see natural greenary amid the confusing maze of the cities... to add more to the woes of nature lovers, Real Estate Developers have began futher extending the cities terming them 'Satalite Townships'... they say the universe is ever extending and that it started from a single point.I see it no different from a city, the only difference being - the city engulfs all that comes in its way!! To see a beautiful sunshine, exotic birds and wilderness is not a common sight these days. As our cities are turning from Metro to Mega to Necro poli', the trees and the entire cycle associated with that particular tree is dying.
I saw a documentary on NGC that spoke of only 1 Brazil nut tree and the cycle associated with it. If one single Brazil nut tree can define a cycle to sustain the rainforest and can take one and a half hour to document imagine a 1000 other trees. Further zooming out, imagine a Million other species and a million other forests.If cutting one tree would make so much of a difference then imagine a million others the world over, for reasons of selfish development and so called human sustainance.There would be a time when true nature would be confined to our Television sets. Perhaps then there would be a widespread realisation. I thought that this realisation was default with education, but after i read today's report of an 'engineering student turned Lashkar terorist' i changed my mind!! I then realised that it was all about Human ethics and principles, but i never knew that these principles would shut mans eyes to nature. In many articles i have read, i have always seen this distinction of Man and nature as if nature,mother earth and all things non human were on one side and the human kind on the other... But has it come to that or to amend this by speaking of them as one, is something the ages and principles will tell!!

posted by Siddharth Krish @ 7:39 PM