Have we ever wondered why suddenly there is so much of hue and cry on saving environment, saving earth, green house effect, etc..?? Why these problems were not there in our ancient times?? Infact, our history shows that we were much richer and affluent than we are now. Our forefathers were more knowledgeable than we are now. Every thing is written in scriptures..how to lead life, how to derive wealth, how to cure ailments, how to extract metals, how to deal in business, how to do astronomy, astrology, surgeries etc..and what not. But we dont follow and understand what is already written. We simply and blindly follow western world..see what they see, do what they do..wear what they wear and eat what they eat.... If they discover antibiotics, we start using them irrationally. If they manufacture pesticides, we start using them blindly. Now they are only shouting at the top of their lungs..about the ill effects of pesticides and antibiotics..So we also start educating people on the ill effects of those chemicals. we teach our children to follow whatever they are finding. Why?? Only because, their country is glamorous and rich. We, like beggars, cannot control our lust and desires and are following them. One blind person following another blind person and leading to pitfall. Examples are not limited to antibiotics or pesticides..there are ennumerous examples.. even in our daily life styles..Even the rich nations are polluting the environment and creating rules like 'carbon credits' where so called developing nations are selling are clean air for them to pollute. They are dumping their toxic hazardous scraps to our country. We are paving way for big multinational companies for making investments in our country..giving them land, labour and markets in cheap rates. Why..so that our people can earn jobs in those companies and Indian employees can proudly flash the their icards of those MNCs.
Mr PM has said it aptly..'Poverty is the biggest polluter'....because poverty leads to sorrow, lust, desires and destruction. What we need is knowledge..enlightenment..and not economic reform through massive destructive projects.
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Mrs Munmun S Deshpande said:
The issue of pollution is a result of indians forgetting their history and being trapped inside the aura of greed and materialistic development.Do we knw that people used to fall sick even earlier, pest were killed even earlier, but the concept applicable was naturopathy. It is really sad that the people have adopted the development issue mimicking the western countries blindly.
In India, there is not even one agency which provides a true EIA report, since if one is produced, there will be no question of anymore industries to crop up in between the destroyed ecosystem.
So, basically, if we need to change anything in relation to the environment of India, we need to change our own self and go back and read the history and learn the techniques of survival.