The world has always been suffering from major setbacks and turmoils, but life was never that difficult and precarious as it has become now because technology and progress in the name of comfortable human life has caused havoc with it. The world is experiencing its worst time in the shape of uncontrollable epidemics and unpreventable diseases. The environment is changing its patterns in an unbelievable way, and human beings are unable to cope with, especially because of landslides, flash flooding and cloud bursting. Earthquakes are more frequent and more scattered in the world. The weather has not only become severe but also unexpectedly changed and diversified. It seems that humans have exploited mother nature to a point beyond return and the capacity to sustain it has also failed.
There was less harm when science and technology were being employed by the humans to provide for the comfort, safety and progress of human life but when the same was converted to greed and unnecessary exploitation of natural resources, things started to change and mother nature decided to react. For example, the extraction of fossil fuels from earth. The fossil fuel deposit had taken millions of years in accumulating which the human beings extracted within just fifty years and burnt with such a great speed and quantity that the carbon footprints are everywhere and are playing major role in rise in temperature globally that all the human life patterns established so far are in danger. The same is the case with water that is an essential ingredient for the sustainability of life is depleting because of extraordinary amounts of extraction and wastages of potable water. The speed of extraction and wastage was so tremendous that the natural process of water charging of earth could not hold its grounds and so, consequently, water resource is depleted rapidly as is indicated by the rapidly increasing water tables in the earth. The water present on the earth level is also in scarcity because we have polluted it beyond limits by mixing our industrial waste with the waters of rivers and canals. This has affected not only flora but also fauna of our earth, resulting in the imbalanced modes of life. The carbon footprints have affected the air, which is second source of life in such a way that it is difficult to breathe in many cities when the smog weather settles in.
This high time that we take care of our ecosystem and reverse some of our greed and exploitation to continue life on earth otherwise human beings will have to make life on some other planet which is so far beyond imagination. In fact, we need to reverse our luxurious lifestyle to a need-based lifestyle. I mean every human being must strive to save the available resources of the earth only to fulfill his or her needs to survive so that all human beings can sustain this planet and the planet itself may be able to replenish itself. For example, instead of commuting from workplace to home on daily basis, more residential offices may be built and similarly the markets may be concentrated very close to each residential area so that people may not have to travel long distances only for getting food supplies and to go to work. Similarly, our food consumption and wastage habits are to be controlled strictly so that we may eat only that much which is necessary for health and must not at all waste food in any way. Natural sustainable healthy habits can be useful in the reduction of disease as well.
We have turned far away from our natural lifestyle and have adopted that lifestyle which is demanding in nature. This lifestyle may be reduced to the level of natural one using advancements in technology and science. For example, we can imagine that humans were able to live without air-conditioning and heating homes, this is possible now by using specialized technologies to maintain temperature along with the support of nature. For example, we have so far cut down more trees than planting them and resultantly, we are facing rise in temperature and other related issues. If trees falling and grown can be balanced possibly, we may maintain a healthy environment. In the absence of trees and plants, our planet can become just like Mras where life can not sustain itself. Moreover, instead of one car for every human, we must populate an efficient mass transit system so that more humans can travel while leaving very little of the carbon footprint.
The time has now become we must develop a need-based economy where only essential modes of life should be sustained by the earth resources and that we must abandon the lifestyle where unnecessary exploitation of the earth sources is to control the rapid depletion. If possible, we may bring a balance where the replenishing and recharging of mother nature sustains itself. The time for this is now and there will never be again a better chance for this.
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