The real problem!!!
“There are so many real problems, the climate can wait!”
“My real life is in danger and you are asking me to control my
carbon footprint!”
“I just want to have some fun, fire crackers are fun, stop
lecturing me about pollution, party pooper!”
“Stop lecturing me even I change my habits then what I am just
one person, what that going to change, nothing so leave me alone!”
“There are enough trees, in forests and parks, what we need are
more multistory buildings and shopping malls!”
These are so common answers & reactions of
people around us whenever we say anything about protecting nature or
controlling the pollution, the “real problems” they say, economy, common disputes,
rivalry & money are so much important than oxygen breathing and having a
clean lung & a proper environment for living, people think they can live
without trees but will die without a shopping mall. Having fun with
firecrackers in festivals is more important than the life itself, more than
clean air, good health. There is no logic no fear can stand against the petty
desires, stupidity and a general urge for suicide.
“My life is safe, I don’t have to
see anything, and it’s the problem of future generation”
Comments like these
are very common, human instinct is living in the present, even we think about
the future we just tend to think about our own recent future, the effects and
results of our arrogance and stupidity, recklessness never make us think. It is
just easy not to look; denial is a form of survival, a tool of avoiding stress.
It is so curious how a nature lover and person with a common sense of the bond
between nature and all animals get mock by general mass by the words like “tree
hugger” “nature freak” “party pooper” “unrealistic” and other mockery. But they
are realistic, but the number is very little comparing to the general
population.
But the tragedy
lies in the fact that the pollution, climate change the chemical poisoning is
happening, some conscious minds are trying their best to change the mentality
the present and through the future itself but most of the population either don’t
know or don’t care, they are ready to accept death by polluted air, poisoned chemical
food, and they are creating a hell for future generation, but the people who
are scared, trying to live or change the evil of negative development are going
end up with the same fate, their future generation will live in the same hell
as the ignorant peoples’. This is sad. The result of general stupidity is disastrous.
Strong opinions
are feared and get ignored because to have a strong opinion, a strong mind is necessary.
Ignorance is bliss, it can make life easy and normal but it is avoiding
reality, shutting your eyes to the big problems and living in a small circle is
not living. Silent is good for avoiding a conflict or rivalry, but silence is
very dangerous when we ignore our problems and the right of living a life fully
in a clear and clean environment. Home is not just the building that we live in;
we have only one home that is our beautiful earth that is where we live not
just inside the four walls. If we can’t see that then it is the greatest
tragedy of all of a missive proportion.