Friday, June 20, 2014

Save Our Home !

What do you call home ? Do you call the roof above your head home ? Do you call the area where you live home ? Do you call your country home ? Time to time you have called all these things your home but I ask you that how many times in your life have you said, "the Earth is my home and that is where I live". Well I'm sure to say you never considered it your home, and why should you ? You cant consider a round piece of rock a "HOME", you have never even seen it ! So do hell with Earth, You'll just keep your house at most your neighbourhood clean because you have to walk through it everyday.
I have a personality that craves to empathize, not because I care, but to find a universal datum of sanity. So lets see why shouldn't we save the Earth. Firstly what should we save it from ? There is nothing attacking it. Some environmentalist comes and says, "Humans are attacking it". What a fool. We are just using what God gave us aren't we ? If he left us a huge (limited ) bundle of oil and natural gasses aren't we supposed to burn it and use it for our progress ? Sure there is a sun hovering above us with unlimited untapped potential for energy and sure there is something called hydroelectric power, but do we really want to reinvest money after spending billions in making oil factories on land and sea. I say let the coming generation worry about that. Look, the estimated time left for our solar system is some blah billion years and you and I have just a mere 100 years. So why not enjoy ! Trash up this place, use all the natural resources, cut the bloody trees down and make a mall ! But wait, didn't some guy say every action has a reaction ? Hmmmmm what reaction would there be to cutting trees down or burning the natural resources ? A little global warming and pollution here and there. Not our concern, our residence is neat and dust free. Lets clear off the forest area and make a city, some economic benefit  of the land,  trees just standing there lifeless, nothing to our gain.
The reality being as harsh as being told you have terminal cancer. If you still don’t consider the Earth as your home, don’t waste your time reading my views.
The Earth is our home, it was our parents home and would be our children's home. If we continue using up the natural resources and don’t create alternatives for the future then the next generation could possibly be the last. Animals don’t care about oil, they would survive because nature always survives. Global warming has reached an alarming point and yet we put a deaf ear to it. And just to be clear global warming refers to the difference in average climate change that is caused by human factor to the average climate change due to natural events. I don’t have to point out what would happen if all trees are cut down or the air gets polluted, nothing you but your children would surely suffer and wouldn't see the beauties nature had to offer but would experience a planet of chaos. So many species have gone extinct because of humans, he have literally scarred nature and still she would heal but only if we let her. Ultimately humans might even cause their own extinction….. Nature will always prevail.
Let me put it in my way of understanding the 7 sins  -

1.Lust - It is being addicted to pleasure, not just sexual pleasure but any sort pleasure and luxuries. Humans have been hurting the Earth only for one main reason, that is to make their stay more comfortable. Our ancestors were not used to air conditioning or auto mobiles or even plastic bags. 21st century people are full of their mind with technology and are handicapped without these, so called basic needs. We just want to be comfortable. I'm not saying having a car is bad, but do you ever see the big picture of you polluting our common home just so you can go a mere kilometre. I walk. Not because I have abundance of time because the entire day I feel I just stare at a computer screen, just dedicate 5 minutes to your body.
2.Greed - It is human's tendency to be overwhelmed by the need of materialistic power and control. Basically we all want to be millionaires and we want be that whilst doing what we love. Even if we choose a profession that brings meaning to our life, we want to be rich in that. Its not bad to have money, we all have to pay bills but do we really need a 10 digit bank account credit ? We don’t care about the implications of burning oils, cutting trees as long we make money. The chemicals used to make products cheaper and making food tastier, the amount of trash created with every item we buy, every small thing has its implications and consequences.
3.Sloth - We are smart and aware of the consequences of global warming. We feel a climatic change and have personally seen almost all global temperature records reset in our lifespan. That is not normal and we know. Why don’t we act, why do we still choose to just do our job, earn our bread and leave the earth ultimately. We don’t care. We know by instinct about our short lifespan as compared to the earth and so we sit back and relax. If we relax who will manage our home ?
4.Envy - We envy nature for its brilliance. We envy each other for infinite reasons. We let it get the best of us and as has been seen throughout history, envy brings destruction. Humans don’t want some flora or fauna to control the lands. We want to control it, even if it means killings thousands of living creatures. Each and every city that has ever been built was done so by snatching the habitat of plants and animals. We want to dominate Earth and yet we don’t call it our home.
5.Pride - Watch any human documentary and it will without doubt paraphrase - Humans are the most intelligent species on the Earth. We defined intelligence in a way that we are at the top. We wont consider how animals pre know about natural catastrophes, we wont consider that a dog wont eat poison just by smelling it and we might. We don’t consider anything intelligent but us. Yet we are dumb enough to discriminate on color, sexual preference and religion. We are full of pride. If animals don’t obey us, we will kill them.
6.Gluttony - How many of you are non-vegetarian ? How many of you ever thought about the flesh you stick your teeth in into ? Or you just assume humans are natural carnivores? Even I cant answer that. I do know what an industry we have created, how animals are mutated to be more fat, give more eggs basically born to die for us. Also please don’t refer to plant as life in this argument against vegetarians because they don’t eat plants. They eat fruits, which are natural food given by nature, and the seeds we get from them it is our responsibility to nurture life from it. Instead we mutate animals to become tastier.
7.Wraith - We lack it. The seven sins are not only sins if someone possess abundance of it. It is also wrong if you lack it. How angry would it be if someone comes to your house, kills your dog, cooks it and eats it and then liters all over, pollutes it, pollutes the air of it, ultimately making it inhabitable for you. The Earth is the largest house we all share, polluting it entirely would take time but humans are slowly achieving it. You are doing this on every day basis . You need to be show your anger and make it stop. This is our home, realize.

God gave us one home. Humans came up with the seven deadly sins ! I just brought out a new meaning to it, these sins are termed the rules of life, well see the bigger picture my friend. You sin in your home and you don’t even know it. Please save Earth.