"Look you gotta choice,
either you fix it or I can...
but if I will, you wont like it,
because I will throw everything away including you.."
The warnings from The Nature, are now loud and clear, more than ever!
The long list of ecological problems that we face now, never stops to scare me..
global warming
growing population
water scarcity
oil peaking and declining
deforestation
wild forest fires...
so how did we get here?
We live in a 'developed world' living a life of comfort and luxury. But is that progress?
from 1 billion in 1850 to 6 billion in 21st century and still counting. Is that how we measure progress?
We have measured progress by expansion, by economic activity, political strengths, military might - but we never had an ecological perspective. In the 20th century our progress was all about consuming our resources with greater efficiency to build a materialistic world.
21st will be all about watching it go away.
The primary reason but not the only one for a civilization to end is growing beyond capacity. The societies becoming more complex. Difficulty with complexity is that it always collapses if one supporting ingredient goes missing and devastation is as sophisticated as the system itself. Then we fight not to develop, but to maintain the status-quo.
Resource scarcity is one of the first and major problems that we are going to deal with. The first and the most difficult one would be the scarcity of oil. Every item that we see around us, travels an average of 1500 miles to reach us, only because of cheap petroleum. Oil is the lifeline of any economy today. declining oil production is now imminent. Its gonna change the way we live our lives. Its a big one, but are we ready for life 'After Peak Oil'?
Look at the way we consume resources in our everyday life. Our dependency on machines and products for every possible human activity. Use of electricity and lights even when we dont need it. Even when we finally look to flex some muscles and get in shape, we dont miss out on using the sophisticated devices that guzzle up energy. We must understand that the energy that we use today, is still not renewable. once consumed, it goes away forever.
The time has come to make imminent changes to avoid or to rightly say reduce the negative impact of all that we have done to our environment. Its time to act before its too late.
I take great privilege in starting this blog. I invite my fellow humans, to share my concern and help all of us to confront the upcoming environmental challenges. I will try to be as regular as I can with my articles, and expect my readers to share their views on different matters. We have to fight this to the end together, and I start here.
