MAN'S FOUL PLAY WITH NATURE AND THE IMPENDING ECOLOGICAL OUTBURST

MAN’S FOUL PLAY WITH NATURE AND THE IMPENDING ECOLOGICAL OUTBURST

Man’s growing developmental needs and the failure of a consensus between the nations of the world to cut down on their pollution-causing industrial production might prove dangerous for the well being of our beautiful blue planet and result in a horrific future for the Humankind, characterized by grave and aggressive ‘acts of reaction’ from the Nature, imperiling the life and livelihood of millions and millions of people in different parts of the world, by seriously disturbing the harmony of climate cycles and weather systems.

Man is undoubtedly the most wonderous and unique creation of nature, having been evolved after millions and millions of years of churning process of the Natural World. He is immensely potent. But, ironically today the humankind collectively are not behaving as a responsible lot. In the pursuit of economic development, lakhs and lakhs of hectares of forests are being cut each year for various purposes. The harmful and toxic chemical wastes are being thrown out of the factory chimneys and from the vehicles into the atmosphere. The chemical fertilizers being used at a very large scale at present are causing serious damage to the soil and dangerous chemicals are entering Our Food Cycle, resulting in serious illnesses and handicaps.

These and many other factors will and to some extent are already beginning to show disastrous consequences. Cracks are forming in the crucial ozone layer, an outer atmospheric layer of air, which prevents certain dangerous carcinogenic rays of Sun from entering the Earth’s Atmosphere. This could cause cancer and many other serious skin ailments becoming a common feature, affecting vast number of people- a prospect which is both horrifying and unnerving. But what is most disturbing and alarming are the Prospects of what Climatologists, Geologists and other Scientists call as THE GLOBAL WARMING.

Global Warming is the term used to describe the consistently and relatively quickly happening process of warming of the Earth’s Atmosphere, as a result of toxic industrial pollutants in gaseous, liquid and solid forms, being thrown into the atmosphere. The pace of industrialization of the world is increasing very quickly with many fastly growing major economies like China, India, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, etc, etc. rapidly setting up modern industries to grow fast and catch up with the developed World.

As a result, the largely carbon containing wastes which is going into the atmosphere is increasing the general level of temperature of the atmosphere. It is feared that this would result in the melting of Polar Snows at a massive scale, increasing the sea levels at most coastal regions, causing massive floodings and drowning many islands and island nations and coastal regions under water.

Apart from this, there are many other and more implications which could result from this dangerous ongoing phenomenon. Entire climate cycles could be disturbed and Weather Systems completely altered. It is predicted that, if such a scenario is allowed to happen then The Indian Subcontinent may see large floods initially as a result of massive melting of Himalayan Snows and might eventually become Large Desert, when the snows have finally melted. It is apprehended that USA, the Premiere Nation of the World, may turn into a dust bowl over the next 150-200 years.

LEADERS, LEADERS WAKE UP…..!!!!

It’s indeed a wake-up call for all the responsible and enlightened ‘Citizens of The World’ to take charge and put pressure on the leaders of their respective nations to take initiative and cut down on their industrial production in it’s present pollution-causing form and develop and gradually adapt bio-friendly and eco-friendly means of productions of goods so that pollution does not increase and on the contrary efforts should be made to reverse it. Someone has to take this bold step and say yes I am going to cut down on my industrial production and adapt alternative measures, come what may. It is the best if this decision is taken uniformly by all the countries of the World unanimously or at least by all the major powers. The desire for economic growth has to be sacrificed for a better, sustained and an ensured future.

This should not become a dirty tug-of-war between the Developed and Developing Countries with each group putting the onus for this initiative on the other. Both the Groups have responsibilities towards their people, The World Community of Nations and 6.75 billion strong Humanity. Unless this Emergent Situation is addressed Urgently, this missed bus would be lost forever and so would be the chance for Environmental Balance and Climatic Harmony of this Planet.

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