Nature or Development

 There’s a lot of pollution out there, oh no! Government just ordered to deforest half of that forest, how can they be so cruel to do so. People are the worst animal, they are so greedy. We’ve already heard of it a lot. Isn’t it?

Now I wanna present a request to you that let’s just have a neutral opinion while reading this, otherwise the only thing you gonna feel after reading this essay is that my time has been wasted, this writer is a fool.

So, I reckon, most of you are sitting comfortably probably on a nice little chair of yours and it could also be your sofa set. Many of you would be so comfortable now to be resting upon your bed. Tell me who’s the one not among fans of comfort? Minimal of humans. Human is a type of animal. I agree. Even the king of animals is habitual of sleeping 12 hrs a day in his comfort zone. Lion maybe the King of the animals but we’re one step ahead of the King, we’re the fittest among all. Why? According to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the fittest among all, survives. The one who’s weak is eliminated. My friend, world is cruel, simply cruel. We’re the fittest among all organisms present on this planet Earth that’s why we’re most superior. We don’t simply think of eating, sleeping and breeding. We’ve a lot to do other than this.

Let’s just be simple and practical, God created us, since the formation of this breed- Humans we were given some special abilities which taught us the art of living. We were hunters. Right? Our ancestors had their food by killing animals. Although I’m vegan but I believe if we humans were given the ability to hunt by the nature  then simply it meant that nature wanted us to survive and even if the nature didn’t wanted us survive, we did. And here we’re today, we can read, we can write, we can have a broad mindset and off course, we can even pet different animals. Have you heard of any animal having human as a pet? I haven’t. Now some of you may think that I’m supporting to captivate animals. Come on man, I’m simply telling some facts. Many people are fond of pets, you could be one of them.

Trees……how they are. Providing Oxygen, removing carbon dioxide, also giving us fruits, medicines and Wood. Do you have some wooden furniture at your home? Do you sometimes overuse/ misuse paper? Have you thought of planting a tree on a regular basis, say half yearly or yearly? Honestly, my house has plants of different flowers. They’re only tempting to the eyes and their fragrance can make your morning. Nothing other than that. Who cares having a tree outside your sweet little home, who’s leaves falling everyday and creating a mess and surely wouldn’t be so catchy to eyes as compared to a couple of rose plants. Some people would have been complaining that there is a concrete road outside my house, I can’t plant trees there. Tell me a thing, a mud road would do? Not actually. It would be a bigger complain from our side having a mud road. You see, we humans are never satisfied. We have a bag of complaints with which we are always ready for different situations.

Okay, so called nature lovers, what would you prefer- paying some extra money for organic fruits and vegetables everyday or to just carry on with the ‘so called’ normal fruits and vegetables which are actually grown using pesticides? You know, if you choose the second alternative then you’re doing injustice to your health and to the food chain. How? Actually the pests that are being killed by use of pesticides to grow food for our consumption are actually part of the food chain. If we gonna kill them to protect our food then the animals that come above them in food chain will suffer (usually the birds).That means you’re exploiting birds.

Do you like non veg? No harm according to me but isn’t it killing animals for food? Oh.. You believe that fishes and chickens could be killed for food, it’s okay according to you. Then tell me something why you create new hash tags on social media and organize rallies when some other animal is killed ? You believe in equality right? Equality of humans and animals, that we shouldn’t do any harm to those wild animals who are living peacefully in wild as they have equal rights on this earth like us. Then how can you have a right to kill and have domestic animals for food? Limits should be decided. If you believe killing is okay then let them die and if you believe it isn’t then don’t you think that obviously you have no right to kill animals for food. Wait, or is it like crime committed by others is crime and when you’re committing crime, that’s okay. So, Mr./ Mrs. Nature lover,don’t you feel you’re doing injustice calling yourself a nature lover? In our day to day activities we do lots of stuff which are against the nature but they are necessary (actually many of them).

 If you’ve answered those questions honestly then there would be three category of people,

l First category includes people who would be happy that they are a true nature lover. Guys, you have my respect.

l Second category includes people who are cursing me. You have been exposed in front of your own eyes, truth is sometimes painful.

l Third category, they are the people who feels like they came across some qualities of being called a nature lover and from now either they would adopt those qualities or would stop being a Hippocratic personality and would accept that being a nature lover isn’t important. You guys also deserve being respected.

Let me tell that I’m not supporter of hunting but I’m simply honest to myself that I’m not a nature lover.

We directly or indirectly harm the nature. Even those who call themselves saviors of nature. The thing is that their rate of harming nature could be very less just because they have knowledge regarding that what could be the alternatives of the stuffs which are acting as slow poison to nature. Also a fact that they are ready to bear the problems and inconvenience that they may face to switch the usually used things with the Eco friendly alternatives make them true devotees of nature. They prefer fan over AC even if it is 40 degrees of Celsius out there. They prefer walking some kilometers rather than simply using a car,thus sacrificing their real wealth- their time. It would require guts……  I won’t be able to do so that’s why I’m in a category which is neither friend, nor foe of the nature.

 

 Have you heard people saying that humans gonna last for only 100 upcoming years or something like that as it is said in case of other resources? No. Their depletion rate is fixed. Ours is uncertain, maybe we are eternal resource or maybe we’re just one pandemic away from our end. Covid 19 came this year, what a real pity for us, we were shattered. I remember when it was the lockdown period, most of the families (at least mine) were very conscious. Honestly, there was a fear among us. But now, after about 8 months of that period, we’re back to normal just with a mask and a pocket sanatizer as our new partner. The economic world had a nap for past few months. The nature enjoyed itself, because it had a chance of being alone because nowadays that’s what it will prefer, being alone without even a shadow of human near it.

 But let’s just be practical- would smiling in our homes and wishing nature good luck to heal itself earn us a living? Damn NO! For that we want the economic world to be an updated version of itself even though nature had to suffer. If you don’t agree and try living like the stone age for even a week you’ll know what I’m saying. I’m not being harsh but rather practical.

What I’m trying to say is that we are a part of 21^st century and we can’t simply say don’t cut trees and don’t do pollution rather we should appeal that do it in a limit and unfortunately, that limit had to increase with passage of time. We expect development…..Right? The gadget you’re holding, the cloths that you’re wearing are results of development and even you’re brain which is helping you to analyse this text, you owe it to development. There could be nothing better than Eco friendly development. We’re working on it and will surely achieve it one day but till that day if a choice had to be made between nature and economy then that choice would be economy. Nature may keep economy under seize for some time like in case of Covid but ultimately, economy will find a way to be free again because that’s the need of the hour in 21^st century.

Development is just a natural phenomenon now just as eating or sleeping. It may be quiet complex than eating or sleeping but it is now a part of life so rather then criticizing it, let’s just start enjoying it.

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