Today, more and more people want to live in cities. They don't want the dull, languid, laid-back life in the rural areas. Instead, they want more charm and excitement of the city life where you have a well-lighted town with people driving their fashionable cars and fast-food shops spilling out with customers. You have discos, bars, theaters, concerts and shopping malls on busy roads. People dressed well and wearing a variety of perfumes all go about, meet and look at each other, and feel the warmth of hearts. Who would want to take dinner after sunset and go to bed nowadays? After all, who don't want fun and excitement in life?
That's where the problem starts. Our life is pitched up against the life of the planet we live in. To be more clear, just as we have our biological clock in-built in our body that tells us when to take food or go to sleep, so have we a particular schedule for our planet earth. If we observe, we see the sun rising early at around 6 and setting after 12 hours at around 6 in the afternoon. But we get up a couple of hours late and keep awake up to 1 or 2 in the morning, burning our midnight oil and all the other resources that we need in order to keep us going, like electricity, gas etc.
We need to do more in today's world. We need to write, publish and read more, we need to use our laptop more and more, we need our food to be delicious even more. We are researching into new fields of knowledge and studies every day. People are getting more and more knowledgeable every day now, with the contribution of tools like the internet and tv. We have professors lecturing on different topics of interest at the universities and researchers carrying out new and exciting projects in the labs.
We do these all to BETTER our lives. It's true today than ever before, that we need more electricity now, to do MORE in order to produce MORE, to consume MORE. We are not morons but are trapped in this cycle of 'doing more'. And in order to 'do' more, we are taxing our world resources.
We have set up atomic power plants, and look what is happening in Fukushima. The situation is completely out of our control.
If we chart down the pattern of natural disasters, we see there has never been a very quiet phase. We need to admit that this planet of ours has its own way of going about. There will always be some natural disasters in some expected or unexpected forms, in one particular area or in another. We don't need to create problems for ourselves, the planet that we inhabit will take care of it periodically for us. What we ought to do, in order to ensure mutual coexistence, is a synchronized way of living, a kind of livelihood that draws on the facilities of the planet, and at the same time, helps to replenish the sources and strengths of nature in order to restore it to its full strength.
Building nuclear reactors are atomic power stations are not the right way to bring our society forward for any conceivably good reason. These establishments are blithe spots on the body of our planet earth and our planet therefore has every right to retaliate back in response to such heinous acts. Fukushima today sends us this exact message. Anything can go terribly wrong anytime.
So we should be unitedly concerned in living harmoniously with nature. We should use the daily routine of the planet to our advantage and start and finish our day according to the rising and setting of the lamp of the planet, e.g. the sun. We should limit our wanton and excess desires of trying to live a very exciting life, simply because it exhausts more resources and we personally can't account for such uses of the same.
We can't just destroy our planet, we don't have the right to do so. We must find ways to have an eco-friendly life steeped in high values and restraints. We can't just be 'fun-loving' vultures, feeding on the corpses of our desires.
That's where the problem starts. Our life is pitched up against the life of the planet we live in. To be more clear, just as we have our biological clock in-built in our body that tells us when to take food or go to sleep, so have we a particular schedule for our planet earth. If we observe, we see the sun rising early at around 6 and setting after 12 hours at around 6 in the afternoon. But we get up a couple of hours late and keep awake up to 1 or 2 in the morning, burning our midnight oil and all the other resources that we need in order to keep us going, like electricity, gas etc.
We need to do more in today's world. We need to write, publish and read more, we need to use our laptop more and more, we need our food to be delicious even more. We are researching into new fields of knowledge and studies every day. People are getting more and more knowledgeable every day now, with the contribution of tools like the internet and tv. We have professors lecturing on different topics of interest at the universities and researchers carrying out new and exciting projects in the labs.
We do these all to BETTER our lives. It's true today than ever before, that we need more electricity now, to do MORE in order to produce MORE, to consume MORE. We are not morons but are trapped in this cycle of 'doing more'. And in order to 'do' more, we are taxing our world resources.
We have set up atomic power plants, and look what is happening in Fukushima. The situation is completely out of our control.
If we chart down the pattern of natural disasters, we see there has never been a very quiet phase. We need to admit that this planet of ours has its own way of going about. There will always be some natural disasters in some expected or unexpected forms, in one particular area or in another. We don't need to create problems for ourselves, the planet that we inhabit will take care of it periodically for us. What we ought to do, in order to ensure mutual coexistence, is a synchronized way of living, a kind of livelihood that draws on the facilities of the planet, and at the same time, helps to replenish the sources and strengths of nature in order to restore it to its full strength.
Building nuclear reactors are atomic power stations are not the right way to bring our society forward for any conceivably good reason. These establishments are blithe spots on the body of our planet earth and our planet therefore has every right to retaliate back in response to such heinous acts. Fukushima today sends us this exact message. Anything can go terribly wrong anytime.
So we should be unitedly concerned in living harmoniously with nature. We should use the daily routine of the planet to our advantage and start and finish our day according to the rising and setting of the lamp of the planet, e.g. the sun. We should limit our wanton and excess desires of trying to live a very exciting life, simply because it exhausts more resources and we personally can't account for such uses of the same.
We can't just destroy our planet, we don't have the right to do so. We must find ways to have an eco-friendly life steeped in high values and restraints. We can't just be 'fun-loving' vultures, feeding on the corpses of our desires.
