SAVE THE PLANET, HELP HUMANITY SURVIVE THE HOLOCAUST ON THE HORIZON

This is what the world ought to be, full of greenery both in the fields and in the heart. But it is a desert now. Let us transform it.

The first step will be to inform ourselves of the environmental danger which we are in. The next must be a change in our attitude. Then comes engagement with the environment in a bid to protect it from further degradation. Lifestyle must be simplified to prevent overuse of resources and excessive carbon emission.

"We must become thinkers." This is what Swami Vivekananda had said. Let this be the guiding principle in our crusade for greenery, in our movement to save the environment from degradation and our civilisation from annihilation. As we learn to think, this overemphasis on the consumerist culture will decrease and humanity will take increasing interest in the more benign pursuits of the mind. Loftiness of thinking, simplicity of living and positive engagement with Nature right from childhood will reverse this malefic environmental trend.

But we must act now. We are already past the deadline but living yet to see another day when with effective action and increasing scientific wisdom we may yet avert this cataclysm that looms large in our face. Shall we not heed the warning signals of Mother Nature then? Shall we be impervious to all sanity and fast-forward our impending death? Have we then come to the edge of terrestrial life with our increasing knowledge of science and decreasing awareness of the life of the Spirit that we must commit this harakiri that will have put paid to all that has thus far been noble and worthy of human endeavour, that which has foreshadowed perhaps a flourishing of human civilisation en masse for the first time in the history of humanity? Has the discovery of the hydrocarbon and the atomic nucleus then been the harbingers of our impending doom, the final act of human vanity that will wipe it off from the face of the blue planet?