Our Earth Is Dying

Being civilized living beings, we fell into the trap of lucrative aspiration to fulfil our temptation of pompous life. We live not for ourselves but for others. We want to show others that we are different from them and built an empire. While doing so, we exploited our nature. And this has been rapidly seen in humans activities after the 1950s.

Now, what are its consequences? The answer is simple tree evils climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation of one species, which hampered the hard pace of the balance system of the environment. These are the backward reaction of nature, and we have been catalysing these effects to their higher amplitudes.

Meanwhile, the above three evils are from the nature side, and we too have some perverse contribution within us. And they are emerging day by day. They are Terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the modern form of colonialism, these are the three evils which has been disrupting our civilization within our society.

Here I am using the world evil than problems because I believe the problems can be solved but evil comes within from the system and they get lapsed out with the fall of the system.

These evils whichever kind it is, are all alarming to humanity, as well as to the planet earth. They are the consequences of our past that have been left out unsolved.

After the 1950s capitalistic world emerged influencing the whole world to follow her. But now when we see the condition, of course, we humans are on the extent of extinction.

How? If the world goes normally, any wars won't happen in future, peace everywhere the problems may be solved that is aroused within our civilization can be solved and all systems can be reimbursed. But what about Earth which has been dying day by day?

Dying day by day

What do we understand by dying on Earth? If we can get production from the land around us, we say that our land is alive. And recently productivity is declining day by day. There are many reasons behind it. We will some of the majors' ones.

In the history of mankind, after 1945, we had stopped war literally, and all our focus was shifted to the economic aspects of nations. At the same time, capitalism spread all over the world whose motto is only profit at any means. As we know that profit is somehow related to production. For production, we need raw materials which resulted in the exploitation of natural resources. Woods, timbers were the main source of energy, which source was the jungle. Many jungles were changed to plains.

With deforestation, we uncovered our land, and it is directly exposed to the sunlight which heated land. And thus there was a temperature rise.

Not only the forests, due to the temptation of more profit we were perversely enjoying using the insecticides and pesticides. And also to maximise our production rate we invented fertilizers. With such uses, we were able to generate profit for short time but in long run, we were mixing poisoning our lands. In the present day, we are facing problems.

With the rapid use of insecticides, pesticides and fertilizers, productivity diminish which forced it to remain barren, which also was one of the reasons for land exposure to direct sunlight.

In addition to this, we transformed ourselves into modernization. Modernization brought urbanisation where the fertile soils were mismanaged and was misled and we built our houses on them. On fertile land where crops were to be planted, we made modern structured houses that absorb heat at high rates. This too heated the land.

And modernization also brought advancements in technology. Now we plough our land with tractors, with modern vehicles, and what did that do? When we see the land ecosystem, we find that at up to 12 inches of depth there is a presence of 90% of the soil ecosystem. Beyond it due to high pressure, rarely living organisms are found. With the use of modern technology, the machines that we used destroyed all the living beings found on our lands. Natural fertilizers, nitrogen mixtures, all those who were present that were there are no more.

With modernization, we turned out to the land into an unproductive futile piece of land. Our muds are changed to sands. In the big picture, our lands are turning into deserts. No production, land is left barren and gets heated by direct light.

And last but not least is overpopulation, before 1945 there was balance because of the behaviours and fights between nations. There used to be many casualties ultimately population used to be maintained and we don't need many resources. But after, we grew in number and we need food for our fulfilment of basic needs we need to mobilize our natural resources.

We have unlimited desires but the path that can be paved to fulfilled those desires, natural resources are limited. This resulted in exploitation.

Those, three challenges or evils whatever we call, climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation are making a direct adverse effect on earth causing the temperature to rise day by day, which will impact the productivity of the earth. And those challenges of humanity with terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and a new form of colonisation are too responsible for it. In 1945, when the atomic bomb was used from that time to this day we have reported that even grass doesn't grow there. The expansion of terrorism is causing growth in the number of refugees where people are made to live in their homelands. And new trends of making countries fall into death traps make other countries exploit more resources to clear debts. Like Amazon, the forest was burned down and Brazil claimed that it will open industries there.

Our home, our motherland, our earth are losing their productivity day by day. In other words, she is dying. And the reason is somehow us.

Here, I only talked about the land ecosystem, and if we look over the otherside of marine life, there is no need to say any word about it.

SadhuGuru from India suggests that" to revive our Earth again we must cover our lands. We must not let it tet direct sunlight". While that can be one of the solutions, I feel that it will only postpone the date. The consequences are inevitable. And the days are coming.

Sometimes, sitting on a window panel looking above the clouds I will be whispering to myself," WE ENJOYED OUR LIFE, AND WE ARE TAKING AWAY ALL THE ENJOYMENT FROM COMING GENERATIONS".

Thank you,