In this materialistic technological world, science has overpowered everything. The rapid advancement in technology has caused a mass enlightenment and has completely changed our way of life. It has changed traditions and mindset and has taken us to a whole new level.
Nowadays, all countries in this global village are thirsty for development and they are willing to go to every possible length to achieve their goals. In this jostle for power and race against time, man has been blinded, as he praises science in all dimensions and has completely forgotten its adverse effects on our only home earth. In our hunger for development and our never ending needs we have destroyed the purity of our planet. We have destroyed billions of hectares of land, shattered tons of ecological cycles, disturbed the global system and savaged the beauty of nature as an excuse for bettering mankind. Man is a greedy social animal, who is looking for his benefit and in the name of progress we have destroyed the landscape by building roads, shattered mountains for access, mass deforestation for urbanism has shattered billions of species of wildlife. This in turn gives birth to numerous other disasters which cause a huge disorder in this global system.
We all claim to be environment friendly, but no one actually implements it in their lives. Brutal cutting down of trees has affected the world, inadvertently bring disasters. Trees basically provide life and are classified as lungs of the nature and cutting them down provokes hazards like floods, which then lead to large scale destruction. Our daily life, and careless everyday acts, all are contributing to this issue. Each person is responsible for the abnormal earth conditions. Our development tactics by industrialization and uncontrolled consumption of fossil fuels has released gases that eat up the purity of this gift of Earth.
All these contributed to a global phenomenon “Global Warming” which has completely shocked the smooth running system of the Earth. Unusual weather conditions, devastating floods and fires are all ‘gifts’ of this ‘Global Warming’. The credit for creating all this goes to humanity. The little hope left has been eliminated by the introduction of nuclear energy. The emission of deadly rays has everlasting effect. These poisonous rays penetrate our bodies and leads to life threatening diseases and disorders. Japan suffered these emissions and recently, after an earthquake, the whole world went on red alert.
Once social and hospitable, man has now become a greedy, selfish and brutal creature. Wars are fought and lands are destroyed and it does not leave even the slightest mark of shame on our faces. The worst part is that we know that we have done wrong and we still don’t feel any shame. There are only a handful of NGO’s that are trying to save the earth as we know it but that is all. We worked towards its destruction but no one is working to save the earth.
MOMINA MAROOF,
Lahore, December 9.