Do we really care about the environment? NO! Simply because we only care about ‘today’. Spare a few, but we never think of tomorrow beyond our savings and how to survive another day. A few is really a few, not even 1 in 100, not even a 1000, may be one in a ten thousand if we are just lucky enough.
Yes i know that countless many actions, meetings, movements, walks, runs, talks, videos, documentaries, features, etc are happening to many people aware of the changing face of the environment. But, if we really look at it, at the end of all these, we still drive the same oil-spilling, low mileage, polluting vehicles. So who is to blame? Is the common man still to blame? Should we point our fingers at the authorities for not enforcing the laws properly. Talk about enforcing!, they don’t even have time to set up a stable government up there after satisfying all the mouths.
Developed nations are like that model in the Marlboro advt., smocking the cigarette and showing off; while developing nations, they are trying to imitate the model by breathing in that smoke and saying, ‘Hey even i’m cool enough!!!’. Don’t they know cigarette is - fire at one end and idiot at the other end. Be at either side you stand to loose.
Take a look in that mirror. Look at you. Are you even half healthy as what your parents used to be at this age. Ya you do earn 10 times as compared to what they earned. We don’t even get up from our butts to get our own food, we ‘get’ in by punching numbers into a machine that is speculated to cause impotency in men and brain cancer.
Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome, was for some hardcore keyboard player. But now every one has one or the other wrist problem, have we all become Elton John. We are the Elton John-s of a different keyboard playing generation, of a different economy, of a different industry.
The 3Rs - Reduce, Recycle, Reuse - are still motto’s of this generation; Reduce physical exertion, Recycle gossips, Reuse inner-wears. I see people taking tonnes of print-outs every day at office, some times they do it by mistake; pages with just one line printed. What do they do? Leave it at the shredder. Cant they just take that can use it for scribbling notes?
As mentioned by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth - We all are like the frog sitting inside boiling water, not realizing that we are getting cooked…
