A century ago we had no mobile, car, electricity, television,
internet, air conditioning, computer, airplanes, foreign holidays, five star
hotels, movies et al in our lives. Today,
our life is hardly anything beyond these.
Was there no life then? Is that we have discovered a new
meaning of life that our forefathers didn't know? Is this a natural progression of life? Do we
know the consequence of this change? Do
we have any responsibility towards the consequence of this change? Are we
prepared to face the social/ economical/ geological consequence of this
change?
If someone knows the answers-good, I would not have any guilt
in admitting "how fool of fine". But if no, how can a so-called advanced society advance without answers to these
basic questions?
Here I want to talk about just one thing which we
understand the most-that is "Matter". More particularly the way we
are consuming "Matter" today. We have attempted to overcome nature
but even for that as well are overly dependent on natural resources,.
In the next 50 years we would be left with hardly any
coal, oil, iron ore, aluminum etc and another 50 years we will have nothing.
Today we are consuming as if there is no tomorrow. Ironically,
at the same time we wish to have children for our better tomorrow. But do we bother to think what will our
children have to consume? We would be remembered as the most selfish generation in mankind
history if we don’t. Is it fair to consume all these resources in just couple
of decades, which have taken lacs of years to generate?
We have created such economic model that if we don't
consume, we would be finished and if we consume our children will be
finished..and yes..we have opted option 2…
We have trapped ourselves in the vicious circles of
consumption. Instead of applying mind over matter we have applied matter over
mind.
Somewhere we have to either stop this consumption madness
or stop producing Children..
2 comments:
Human being was always consumption oriented... that why it was able to spare its two extra legs and used them as hands... invented wheel, discovered fire... and keep on innovating... its nature... you can go back to any generation and say it spoiling the future... its not from today.. go to past people always remember and get emotional about it.... nothing is good or bad.. its all going forward... and it will be like that as long as human being is on earth...
enjoy!!
pl don't misread my thought..and avoid the question..i am talking about 1) the pace of consumption..of limited "Natural resources"..say till 1940s and post that..will try give you some data on that..2) are we using resources efficiently or inefficiently.. My view is we are using inefficiently hence actually we are not advancing ..3) what are our plans for our future generations..in case you agree that these important resources are limited and till today there are no major breakthrough on alternatives..
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