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A thought....
I am now sitting in my room and staring out of the window behind my comp. Staring at those tall coconut trees that are swaying in the wind. It’s hopelessly bright and hot outside. The leaves are shining bright yellow. Well, see how nature has made these coconut trees so adaptive. They are so tall and yet can sustain the winds so easily without getting uprooted. It’s in the design of the leaves. Nature is truly a great architect. Those splits in between the leaves allow winds to pass through so easily…. providing no resistance at all…inspite of the height.
Adaptation is an ongoing process and as environment changes, living beings keep on evolving to get adapted to the changes. Those that can evolve, perish. Natural Selection. But, there is certainly a limitation to the pace of this change as well as this adaptation. A natural pace. Any pace faster than this and especially brought out by man’s artificial activities can certainly harm nature and eventually man’s own survival. What is prompting me to write all this is a list of temperatures that got published in today’s Times. It is a list of hottest temperatures recorded in Bangalore since the last ten years. What we see is a horrifying increasing curve. Simple interpolation can show that in around five years time the temperature in Bangalore can touch that of Ahmedabad and the temperature there can touch that of the Sahara! What a horrifying site! No wonder the air conditioner sales have zoomed up! But, its all this effect of global warming…cause being exponentially increasing pollution brought put by man’s anti-natural activities...right from soaring automobile population to smoky industrialization to …
Seems like man would start developing nictitating membrane to counter the pollution!
“Nature can act on every internal organ, on every shade of constitutional difference, on the whole machinery of life.” – Darwin.
Well, should we climb down the civilization ladder? Well, that doesn’t at all seem practical or sensible. Even if it did, it’s impossible to do so!! It’s all about following nature-friendly practices. Atleast the basic and easy ones…starting from decreasing the use of plastics (non-bio-degradable and are hence harmful) to keeping the vehicles in good pollution-free condition to planting more trees. Well, this reminds me of one thing: Many trees along Major Cariappa road (parallel to MG road), Bangalore, have been cut down. What a pity!
Unfortunately the concern is very limited. Even among the educated masses. That’s because the educated don’t have the time to think about these things and the uneducated don’t know about these things!
Seems like it’s in the very characteristic of man – this selfishness – lack of concern for members of his own species as well as others. For instance, take birds feeding on ground. One individual may notice a predator and sound an alarm. In doing so, the bird also calls the predator’s attention to itself. Similarly with the bees. The worker bees (they are sterile) unselfishly devote themselves in caring for the queens, which alone reproduce and subsequently for the young ones. And one this side, we have Homo Sapiens who not only care for members of other species, they fight among themselves too.
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(Anonymous)
2004-05-02 07:53
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I completely agree with u..the educated dont have the time..and the uneducation dont know bout it..but one things for sure..this was one heck of an interesting entry...where is all this coming from btw?
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(Anonymous)
2004-05-03 06:41
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sooo true... but we can do our part right? We can plant trees...recycle...compost...conserve water....Maybe we won't be able to change the world but we can atleast lay the foundation. The greeny in me says "Every bit counts" at the same time, the pessimist in me says "What's the point??"
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Life has to go on...
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