Greedy is Fine, Selfish is STUPID !!

I believe human’s are as greedy as any other species on this earth. Greed is a necessary for survival. Therefore its natural and quite essential. However, the reason why we carry the greatest responsibility for what is happening to earth is because we got something more than greed. We are selfish. Selfish because, we have been knowingly continuing with unwise practices because of a belief that we will never personally have to pay the consequences for the results, but that eventually our children will. Secondly, though we have realized our mistakes, there is a remarkable imbalance because the speed at which the potential future problems are accumulating is far more greater than the speed at which the previous mistakes are currently, arguably addressed.




The reason why we are making very slow progress in this regard is because, in order to correct our mistakes we need to change our life style which we have been practicing since few hundred years now, and we all know habits die hard. It’s like sitting in the office powered with centralized AC and talking about the depletion of ozone or riding a badly maintained bike and giving the lecture to your friend, on global warming and pollution. Are we being plane hypocrites ? Well, that we are by nature as well. One might argue, that we are at least spreading the message and making people aware. Awareness is a strange word. It’s like reading the headlines of news paper. End of the day, almost everyone is AWARE but nothing changes. We sleep till we read a new headlines next morning.



What we really need is action. Environmental protection laws and a system which protects these laws against corruption. Each person\factory\new technology should be held responsible for harm they cause to the environment. Every smallest thing to the biggest technological thing we invent should pass through the series of tests which confirms that they don’t posses any direct or indirect harm to the nature while in use, as well as while in production. Every waste produced should be recycled to be bio degradable and non hazardous.



We need to revolutionize the way we think and pursue technology. We have to go close to the nature as much as possible, for answers. For example, one of the hardest material steel is manufactured by superheating the iron ore at 800 – 1050 Celsius. This uses a lot of resource, energy and produces a lot of waste. Compare this to spider web. Spider silk is one of the 7 great wonders of the animal kingdom. That a small animal, often less than a millimeter across can make a substance that we humans with all our technology are unable to reproduce, a substance that is tough, stronger and more flexible than anything else we can make is surely a humble reminder of the fact that Nature created us and not the other way around. Obviously, spider doesn’t have the luxury of superheating the material to 1050 Celsius !! Now, consider concentrating our energy is conducting research to find and mimic this mechanism. Astonishing, isn’t it?



Well, the answer is simple. Concentrate on areas that is causing the maximum damage to the environment due to industrialization and make laws to either curb it or stop it completely. Increase the spend on research programs and encourage the scientists to come up with new renewal source of energy or increase the efficiency of the existing technology like solar cells. Spend more time on children, the future, by not only making them aware of the importance of safe guarding the eco system, but also practicing the same by asking them to plant saplings and then guiding them to take care of it by themselves. The idea is to bring in the sense of responsibility. Perhaps, it’s time we spend very less time on dreaming of landing on moon and more time on safeguarding the beauty within our planet, our home !!



We know that we have done the mistake. It’s totally fine. Human’s do make mistakes and that’s how we learn. The first step towards improvement is excepting the mistake. It’s time to move on. As much as possible, try not to make new mistakes. Plants eat up waste and produce oxygen. Either decrease the waste or increase the plants. Suit your style !! Let’s not allow this to be the most costliest mistake of mankind that would wipe us out from the face of the earth. Already, things are improving. Although not fast enough. Hopefully, we will pick up the pace. Because like Obama say’s, “WE CAN !!”

“We all know that nature protects itself and us. All we need to do is give a helping hand. Learn from it and live with it”
 
 

Note : “Neither do I believe in numerology nor do I adore mathematics. But I am honored and pleasantly surprised, that I could share 100 thoughts with you all and thereby gain 1000 more myself !! Hence, I would like to thank all those kinds of commenter’s that Sree invented and also all those who have imagined my thoughts and silently connected with their own. Sometimes thoughts don’t match, other times they seem to be too hard to imagine. Feel free to share your thoughts, for I am neither scared of thoughts, nor intimidated. Oh, thoughts. I just love them. God bless.”