Back to our roots by Himanshu Sharma

Back to our roots

by Himanshu Sharma

Entire World is facing Covid-19 pandemic, it is difficult to measure its impact on human life and economy loss globally. World Health Organisation (WHO) and many countries are fighting day & night to save millions of human lives. Scientist are working hard to develop vaccine and hope this would pass clinical trial and shall go on production stage very soon.

Majority of population facing lockdown worldwide, the normal life is completely changed, all modes of transport are stopped, offices, markets are closed.  This has happened just in few months and affected almost everyone.

Initially people did not realise its impact but soon Covid spread across counties and continents and registered cases almost in all countries. 

Doctors, Health Sector workers and the Governments geared up quickly and prepared strategy to respond the situation and after continuous efforts situation brought into control.

After various studies experts observed self-isolation is effective way to avoid possibility of infection therefore most of countries followed lockdown.  During this period, World has changed lot, life changed in few weeks. Everyone realised Covid pandemic taken seriously. They realised the situation is very serious because the infection spread so fast that just in 3 months entire world was facing it.

During lockdown people had different world suddenly, life style changed, daily routine changed, therefore was no household service support and school, offices, market places locked down. Even in many areas people forced not step out from home, not even morning walk, receiving family and friends. This was something very different no one had thought of it.

Most of time people hang on mobile, watching television and browsing internet and everywhere there was corona news. Which continuously fed your mind and to some extent gave a thought what went wrong with us?

 Human Society left everyone with number if questions? People realised this shock, many of them was anticipating something will happen which will stop human race for material life and the earth will own way to cure itself. People realised this nature’s call and to great extent their mistakes too.

This is evident that how badly we have treated our earth and nature, and we kept it exploiting since hundreds of years. The life which evolved on earth in billions of years we destroyed in just few decades. Despite warning by environmentalist, we did not address issues with empathy, and it continued ruining nature treasures.

Effectively we failed to ensure clear air, water, and soil. We spoke lot but nothing concrete materialised so far. We, all are responsible for the environment decay.  There was continuously calls to address environment concerns which has been raised numbers of experts and thinkers but unfortunately it was never answered seriously, and we were just kept rolling things, and it became just a cosmetic exercise.

Despite understanding gravity of concerns we didn’t stop and continued depleting our earth justifying various logic for material gains, for comfort for luxury and at end day we find ourselved with one question “ How long you would do this? When you will stop doing this?

I would say Nature is still kind enough, it has sent us strong signal with a window to correct our mistakes and draw a line for material world. Nature realised each of this life is possible by minimise our needs, we are happily living, what we changed? We just accepted when there was no scope to play with it.

We set up thousands of industries without drawing limit of consumption and finally it impacted on environment. Recent forest fire in Australia and Amazon is few examples. We fed million tonnes of carbon into environment and spoiled our water bodies, land, and sky and turned it to toxic.  

If we look at Corona pandemic, we still can learn out of it. United Nation need to take lead with nations and workout plan for GREEN ECONOMY. Priority must be carefully draw out and enforcement to be very strict. Top priority must be given to clean energy and infrastructure projects which ensure easing life of people without deforestation. Cleanness and Plantation must religiously follow. Every Government  performance must be evaluated based on Gren Economy initiative, their water level, soil quality and air quality. 

Nature has been very kind to us. It sent us number of signals showing its pain, but we never responded it seriously. When I was at childhood stage, I had heard climate change word first time, honestly, I could not understand its importance and we have each of us realised.  Similarly, scientist have already projected severe affects in future if we do not take serious call now.

We must accept, Nature is Supreme authority in this Universe. Therefore, all the social, religious and government institutions should join hands to protect our Nature.