it is 19th June and there's still no sign of the monsoon clouds. The monsoon in India has been notoriously famous for arriving well before time and catching everyone by surprise. I remember during my childhood, before School began we had to buy our 'Gum Boots' for the monsoons. But it seems the times have changed in a decade and children's schools have resumed this time around with their raincoats in their bags rather than being on them.
Something has definitely changed, it takes no freakin' degree in geology or meteorology or whatever-the-hell-logy it takes to study the science of seasons! And these signs beg of all of us to think about what's happening. Try and recall when was the last time you saw the monsoons come in so late? How often did sudden thunderstorms, cyclones and tornadoes knock the life out of cities and villages in the 80s or for that matter even in the 90s? Were the summers this hot when you were a kid? So what has changed all this?
We have a host of eco-crusaders (read environmentalists) telling us through compelling movies like The 11th Hour and An Inconvenient Truth of the impending danger lurking over us of pushing mankind to the brink of extinction due to global warming and other such factors. But who cares about what they have to say. I have been taught to live for the moment and take advantage of every single resource and person around me for my advantage. But Mother Earth, in whose bosom you and I live, has a philosophy of coexistence she strongly believes in. This is perhaps why we still haven't been swallowed up by the ground below us (or maybe she has already run out of patience with a 40% increase in earthquakes worldwide in the last 10 years).
The time had finally come for us to stop bullshitting ourselves, to stop wearing Green T-shirts and Putting of Lights for one hour in the whole damn year. It is time to stop Talking Green and Start Doing Green. It is an everyday battle we have to fight; not with multinational corporations or superpowers, but first with our conscience to do what's best for the environment and me to 'coexist'.
I received an SMS from clergyman friend of mine some days back asking us to pray for us, since God will answer our prayers. I think God has already answered our prayers for that by giving us an Opportunity to save the planet. I believe it is our turn now to claim that saving grace through our everyday decisions and clean up our mess for our Mamma Earth!
Something has definitely changed, it takes no freakin' degree in geology or meteorology or whatever-the-hell-logy it takes to study the science of seasons! And these signs beg of all of us to think about what's happening. Try and recall when was the last time you saw the monsoons come in so late? How often did sudden thunderstorms, cyclones and tornadoes knock the life out of cities and villages in the 80s or for that matter even in the 90s? Were the summers this hot when you were a kid? So what has changed all this?
We have a host of eco-crusaders (read environmentalists) telling us through compelling movies like The 11th Hour and An Inconvenient Truth of the impending danger lurking over us of pushing mankind to the brink of extinction due to global warming and other such factors. But who cares about what they have to say. I have been taught to live for the moment and take advantage of every single resource and person around me for my advantage. But Mother Earth, in whose bosom you and I live, has a philosophy of coexistence she strongly believes in. This is perhaps why we still haven't been swallowed up by the ground below us (or maybe she has already run out of patience with a 40% increase in earthquakes worldwide in the last 10 years).
The time had finally come for us to stop bullshitting ourselves, to stop wearing Green T-shirts and Putting of Lights for one hour in the whole damn year. It is time to stop Talking Green and Start Doing Green. It is an everyday battle we have to fight; not with multinational corporations or superpowers, but first with our conscience to do what's best for the environment and me to 'coexist'.
I received an SMS from clergyman friend of mine some days back asking us to pray for us, since God will answer our prayers. I think God has already answered our prayers for that by giving us an Opportunity to save the planet. I believe it is our turn now to claim that saving grace through our everyday decisions and clean up our mess for our Mamma Earth!
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