Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life’s has become extinct, the climate’s ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
-Anton Chekhov , Uncle Vanya ( 1967)
A life is worth it if it has the opportunity to explore all its potentialities. A life is worthier if the opportunities are available and the fight is for potential. But a life is worthiest if there are avenues to expand potentialities and opportunity is not an issue but only the challenge to better your best.
When a child drinks water, it never knows what it is, nor does it matter for an injured surviving on saline. When a cow consumes a plastic bag, and dies of the entanglements it causes to its digestive mechanism, she never knows, it will take her life, so painfully. When a plant dies due to logging of water or drought or because of a storm uprooting it, it never knows why every next storm is more powerful and frequent than it used to be. But there is one thing that even many of us don’t know: ‘that we men are the single most important denominator behind all this’.
Rabindranath Tagore , said, ‘Man’s civilization is built upon his surplus.’
Truly man has intelligence and ingenuity beyond the limit of bare necessity and usefulness. There lies the power of creating ‘New’. There lies our test to give our next generations a happier, cleaner and greener home to live: Mother Earth.
Can we ensure a better future for our forthcoming generations and the generations of our plants, our animals, our surroundings? Can we turn the greatest threat to man’s existence into the greatest opportunity? Can we go beyond the limits and set a new standard of a sustainable growth?
This time we don’t have an option.
The answer must be YES.
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