I believe in environmentalism and this new faith that I have adopted needs nurturing and care from people around
|| ADEELA HAMEED
One of the most basic instincts of a human life is the drive to survive. This urge to live necessitates the need to develop and gain consciousness about our surroundings. We demand to thrive in a suitable environment, beneficial to our health and status. What human beings require is almost completely different from what they urge. A house is important, a mansion is not. We can only expand the womb of our nature to an extent. After that, no scratch or puncture is going to expel its gold. Our environment has barricaded a limit to everything it owns and whatever it shares or provides out of sincerity can be easily snatched away. It surely does satisfy us, even our constant surges and tantrums are taken care of. But we must know for the knowledge of knowing things that it can forbid further demands and we would be left with nothing to even supplicate on. Nowadays newspapers spew ink on hazards polluting our ecosystem. Headlines are overloaded with concerns about sanitation and safety, electricity and water, food and nutrition. While these are equally important issues, what catches my concern are the encroachments that drape our society. Dal Lake is the best example of this horror. One is immediately repulsed by the sight of this once famous and serene Lake. It was a jewel and now it’s nothing. It is rarely visited by birds of migratory importance or even the local aviators. Such deplorable is its condition that I feel ashamed to even catch a glance of it.
I cannot. It is difficult for me to recollect what we have done to it. Littered it, made it a garbage ground, poured sewage into it, ravaged it for aquatic fauna yet hindered their growth, encroached it, built structures in and around it, did not once remember to dredge it faithfully. I forgot to take care of it. It was once my pride and joy and now I decline to call it my own. I have repudiated it.
Human consciousness is pure and serene but ego is evil. It is raw and wild and discerns to kill unworthy. This is what I found out. When a human selflessly works for something, he/she achieves it and being moderate considers all pros and cons of an issue. But when it lets go of shackles that bind it to care, protect and conserve, it is a wild beast mauling down everything and everyone coming its way. It doesn’t care who or what. After finishing, it loathes what it has done but then it is too late. This is me. This is us. This is what we have done to our ecosystem. We have made it our toy, played and kicked it, and forgotten it as we moved on to a new one.This is pillaging for resources. We finish our own, cry about others having it and then fight and loot for it. What a human doesn’t realize is that the single most important resource that he has, he has been throwing it away for unnecessary plunders. This most important entity is Time. Time defines everything and has control over everyone. If one has time and understands it properly, he/she will definitely end up doing something remarkable. With time, routes are set, passages are born and ideas take root. Time consumed in a fruitful way to protect and preserve, what is ours to do so in the first place, is the most valuable gift to human race. What we must understand as humans is that we are just a small part of our universe. Our worlds have other means to continue too. So instead of inviting doom early, we must reciprocate firmly and diligently in helping our ecosystem survive, with us in it as well.
Human consciousness is pure but ego is evil. It is raw and wild and discerns to kill unworthy. When a human selflessly works for something, he/she achieves it. But when it lets go of shackles that bind it to care, protect and conserve, it is a wild beast mauling down everything and everyone coming its way.
The underlying concern that I want to provocatively discuss is the lack of interest and faith. This disputation needs change. I believe in environmentalism and this new faith I have adopted needs nurturing and care from me and from the people around. While I try to induce a sense of conservation and protection at every step of my way into tomorrow, I certainly hope everyone does the same every day. The predicament to see no sense of hygiene or heterogeneity to protect what is ours in people is disheartening.
The predicament to see no sense of hygiene or heterogeneity to protect what is ours in people is disheartening. One is indeed reimbursed with repulse when a condition like this revolves around. I am no personality to guide or escort people to trust but I sure do not want to be a mute spectator.
Nowadays newspapers spew ink on hazards polluting our ecosystem. Headlines are overloaded with concerns about sanitation and safety, electricity and water, food and nutrition. While these are equally important issues, what catches my concern are the encroachments that drape our society.
One is indeed reimbursed with repulse when a condition like this revolves around. I am no personality to guide or escort people to trust but I sure do not want to be a mute spectator. It brings disrespect to the belief of protection, preservation and privilege. I will raise my voice, my hand and my head to these insolent offenders of my religion. What use is a believer when he just believes in verses sitting at home? I trust activity and people who trust action. What I firmly support is faith in the environmental community, a pinch of respect, morality in diversity and complete eradication of skepticism. In a dry desert and among moving sand It is the same to a thirsty man whether he has pearls or shells in his mouth When a man has no provisions and his strength is exhausted It matters not whether his girdle is adorned with pearls or potsherds.
(The writer is an environment protection aficionado)
