Earth bleeds.
May 5th, World environment day. There was a photo and an article in The Hindu yesterday. The photo was an arial view of a part of the amazon rainforest cleared by the timber smugglers and illegal settlers and the article was about the extent of damage caused by them to whatever left of the forests in the river delta. The statistics were terrifying: It is reported that the size of the rainforest has come down by 16,000 sq.kms in the last one year. The same is happening all over the world: In Africa, In India, in Indo-china, everywhere. Mother earth is getting raped and strangled to death as each day passes by.
In this context, an article came in the weekend suppliment of Mathrubhumi yesterday attains great importance. It was about the struggle of a group of people led by the eminent Malayalam poetess and human rights and evironment activist Sugathakumari to afforest a hill in the Attappadi region of the Western Ghats, bordering the Silent Valley National Park. They adopted a hill which was earlier made barren by the timber mafia, planted thousands of seeds and saplings, watered them using bare hands in summer, and cared for them like their own childern. Slowly the plans grew, and became trees, and then came back all those animals and birds that left their home back, when they had nothing to hold on to. Now the hill is back to its old glory; happy and full of life. This does give a ray of hope, that as long as there are people like them, the mother earth will not have to die a horrible death. She will live on. Just.
There was an event organized by the Bangalore chapter of Greenpeace, which took place on the side of the MG road in the busiest hours of yesterday evening, and sure, it caught quiet a good attention from everyone. They made a platform on one of the big trees standing beside the raised walkway on the MG Road, and did a full scale music performance, with a lot of "Save trees" banners flying around. I sincerely hope it has caught the attention of the Bangalore Mayor and BDA babus also. May be this will flash in their mind while deciding to chop down trees to make way for fly-overs. May be I'm being too optimistic. I should curtail my habit of expecting too much from people - may be I shouldn't expect anything at all. It always hurts.
In this context, an article came in the weekend suppliment of Mathrubhumi yesterday attains great importance. It was about the struggle of a group of people led by the eminent Malayalam poetess and human rights and evironment activist Sugathakumari to afforest a hill in the Attappadi region of the Western Ghats, bordering the Silent Valley National Park. They adopted a hill which was earlier made barren by the timber mafia, planted thousands of seeds and saplings, watered them using bare hands in summer, and cared for them like their own childern. Slowly the plans grew, and became trees, and then came back all those animals and birds that left their home back, when they had nothing to hold on to. Now the hill is back to its old glory; happy and full of life. This does give a ray of hope, that as long as there are people like them, the mother earth will not have to die a horrible death. She will live on. Just.
There was an event organized by the Bangalore chapter of Greenpeace, which took place on the side of the MG road in the busiest hours of yesterday evening, and sure, it caught quiet a good attention from everyone. They made a platform on one of the big trees standing beside the raised walkway on the MG Road, and did a full scale music performance, with a lot of "Save trees" banners flying around. I sincerely hope it has caught the attention of the Bangalore Mayor and BDA babus also. May be this will flash in their mind while deciding to chop down trees to make way for fly-overs. May be I'm being too optimistic. I should curtail my habit of expecting too much from people - may be I shouldn't expect anything at all. It always hurts.
posted by SNM at 2:06 PM
8 Comments:
they will do nothing of the sort. all they want is money. do you know that there is a "green belt" funda, i.e. X area of greenery has to be there in a X+Y area of a city. well, this X for the city of bangalore wuz forest which stood where electronics city stands today. the govt. violated this rule just to make e-city possible, 'cuz of all the money which wud flow in from the IT giants that are there today. so mother earth has no chance man. lets just hope we die before things become really bad and are not reborn..
Just one reminder, Mr Kuts, it's only chance r us!
I've made a habit of carrying plastic bags with me whenever I go out, to carry things I buy, more importantly, refuse the new one that the shop-keeper will offer me! Not that it is a great deal against the plastic menace, but as much as I can...
We'll do what we can, Kuts. These days I too have made it a point to refuse those plastic bags from shops. Whenever I go for a trek, I try to collect the plastic waste from the trail and carry it back to town.
Get all the scum back to the cities...hehe They are filled with scum anyway!
Yea thats right...and thatz y you took those plastic waste from "Kunthy puzha"......where did you trash them??
Put them in the waste-bin in my house. From there, a vehiclle will come and collect the waste in every two-days, and it goes to a Mass-Urban-Waste separator which separates the plastic(non-bio-degradable) from the rest. The former goes to an incenerator which emits a non-CO smoke, and also use it to recycle plastic. The latter is converted to manure!
Ah! What a great nation we have!
Dream on... dream on... :)
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