Saturday, April 24, 2010

One step forward or two steps backward?

We coin it Development - calculating 2+2 on mobile calculators, driving down to your next street neighbourhood, trying to enjoy nature in airconditioned cars, googling for knowledge sitting at one place and paying lakhs to treat back pain, cutting down forests to make concrete jungle and them blaming global warming for rising temperatures.

If we for a moment whiff back about a century from today - we the same specie would mentally calculate distances, find places without refferring to navigators, climb up 50 stairs at one go, go to doctors for a chit chat only, plant trees to enjoy fresh air, walk miles to meet friends and relatives and not pollute air with cars and in the bargain not have back pains.

So are we going one step forward with so called 'mechanic development' or in reality putting two steps backward?

All these diseases, pollution, global warming, destruction of natural habitat and animals, imbalance in the ecological system are due to such destruction in the name of development - computers, cars, Airconditioners, paper and printers, mobile, electronic appliances at home.

Time we reset our clocks and start learning from our ancestors to live life healthily.

1 comment:

Padma said...

Absolutely agree with you. It's high time we learn our lesson and act accordingly.