Love of Nature is Essential for our Survival

Why has the question of love for nature become so important for the modern human race? 

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

The question of love for nature has been raised because of rapid modernization and the subsequent destruction of nature.

We can’t think of a world without fast cars, fast aero planes, computers and all the gadgets that are virtually part of the modern world. We have a world where nature has been abused and exploited and has led us to the dungeons of hell.

I will consider the word – ‘progress’ to be a misnomer because in the name of progress we are harming our surroundings. And this is certainly not a way of showing love to nature. 

      How many of us try to wake up and watch the sunrise or watch the crimson sun descending on the western horizon? How many of us enjoy an early morning walk in the park or the green expands of what we know as, for example Greater Noida City Park.

      Trees are being cut down at a rapid pace at the benefit of greedy and hungry promoters in connivance with the local authorities. Deforestation led to the cyclone in Orissa a few years ago. If we keep whitewashing the greenery around our cities, how can the citizens breathe pure oxygen which is necessary for our health?

      Our cities are polluted with the fossil fuels of our cars; auto rickshaws belching out carbon intoxicated poisonous air. We breathe and reap cancer as we go about doing our work everyday. We are far away from nature’s healthy life giving forces that we find in the sun, wind and rain. The ozone layer of the atmosphere protects us from the ultra violet radiations or direct effect of the sun. But it is getting perforated by the extensive use of CFC’s in our daily lives.

      Therefore, my readers, I request you to pay heed to the dangers we face everyday of our lives because of our steady withdrawal from our association with nature. If we realize this grave situation, we shall forgo the steps that are being taken by the developing world in particular, to ruin our lives.  

      Carbon free energy grid sounds unachievable in a short space of time but it’s a challenge that achievable and affordable and has the potential to completely transform our lives. Therefore, I, as a responsible citizen of the Blue Planet would like to pick up the green gauntlet when people are tuned to the need for greater energy efficiency, to reduce pollution and maximize benefit in the backdrop of rising food costs and falling supplies. 

      The need for love of nature arises as the demands for renewable energy grows, costs will continue to fall. With economies of scale, energy generated from the sun, wind and water would become more affordable and eventually, all electricity generated could be from non fossil fuel sources. Solar energy should be able to rival nuclear energy in contributing to India’s needs by 2020. I have often wondered why a country like India with its abundance of natural sunshine hasn’t done more to focus on developing solar energy. All we need to step up this revolution is part persuasion, part legislation, strategy with strong political leadership and individual state and determination.