Time to reconnect with nature

It pains me that the more I focus on the challenges to the environment the more I find mankind guilty. It is ironic that the culprits are crying hoarse over global warming, climate change, extreme weather, biodiversity degradation, water scarcity and what not? Has some alien species pushed the planet to this alarming situation – a situation where we don’t have clean water to drink, unadulterated air to breathe, and healthy food to eat? We ourselves have ruined the resources needed to fulfil the most basic of our needs. There is enough to take care of what we need but certainly not enough to satiate our greed.

Life has come full circle. We are reaping what we have been sowing. The theory of karma never appeared stronger.

The knocks dealt by us to the planet’s biodiversity have caused a perilous imbalance. Nature’s systems have gone haywire. Healthy interaction among humans, animals, vegetation and microorganisms seems to be a saga of a distant past. Our fossil fuel industry is drilling and digging up the earth to generate resources that are making our surroundings more toxic, poisonous and dreadful by the day.

Having driven the world to the brink, we are now desperately seeking alternative and renewable sources of energy. Trouble is that it is not going to happen overnight. Our doings have doomed us to prolonged suffering.

The time to reconnect with nature and heal it could not have come sooner. We should have started yesterday. But we can still execute a collective resolve to preserve and promote the magical wonders of nature. This issue of servedplanet.com aims to take you in that direction. To make your new journey more enlightening and inspiring, servedplanet.com has started placing new content on the website in between the fortnightly editions. You can expect fast and furious traffic on our content track.

Basant Chaudhary