Saving the environment.

I must admit that whenever I'd heard that the earth that we inhabit is moving fast towards annihilation, thanks to the human plunder of its natural resources, I'd always thought that it was a line of argument adopted by the so called 'nature lovers' for whom anything about human beings came last, always and everytime! But as things start showing up at every change of season, one has reasons to believe, now, that these people have indeed been warning us of a real problem, that's looming large, to engulf us in the not too distant future!

The recent happenings at Cancun, at least show that the world has been seized of the enormity of the problem. While I wouldn't like to dwell upon the details of the deliberations, what's discernible is that there's a lot of mismatch in the perceptions of the developed and the developing world. While the developed world wants a seizure of developmental activities that involves wanton destruction of natural resources, the developing world feels that they've the right to go through with it to become developed and self sufficient before agreeing to self restraint. So long as this fundamental difference of opinion is not sorted out amicably there can never be a universal accord, wherein all countries work together in safeguarding the environment.

But what I want to highlight is the manner in which the seasons have begun to change drastically over the last few years. For example, the biting cold that's prevalent all over Europe and the British Isles today. In our country, the South West monsoons have almost culminated into the North East monsoons, judjing by what's being experienced in Kerala today. The cold has come comparatively earlier, this year, in North India.

Surely these changes have happened because of the carelessness shown by human beings, the world over, in exploiting the natural resources. When I say this, unplanned industrialisation is what I've in mind as one of the primary concerns.

Development with a humane touch would definitely be a step in the right direction. And yes, we need to safeguard the environment for the sake of the coming generations!