Excavating the Earth

I am thankful to Reliance for giving me credit for something which I may have done circumstantially, and not for lofty beliefs and ideals.  Those who came to know about this modest honour sought me out to congratulate, compliment, praise, and even to ask me what they could do towards the cause of saving our planet, with all that it involved, including halting climate change.

I take the opportunity to say here that I do not believe that mankind is getting closer to a greener globe, and therefore saving itself, apart from most of the other creatures, who have not contributed to this environmental devastation, from perdition.

Regardless of what one of us, or a group, or an entire country, or all of us, consciously NOW does, we cannot reverse the process of our earth's inability to support life as we know it. Each moment, each day, our despoliation increases. Each moment, each day, month, year, is inferior, more problematic, than the last; if not for complex scientific reasons, then simply because we are too many and growing, and all the resources have to be more plundered and exploited for us to reside, have walls and rooms, food, water, transport, and a relatively unpolluted environment.

Whether or not trees are planted, whether or not the milk of human kindness flows with all the generosity it can summon, it is already too late. Things are so bad that the little or more that we do cannot compensate for the harm which we do in the same given time. Therefore, only the deficit is incremental, not the escape or the longevity of our survival.

This is without prejudice to people, experts or novices, societies, social workers, reformers, environmentalists, ecologists, whose job, with or without belief, is to engage themselves in "good works" for improving living conditions and longevity, reducing pollution, disease; and attempting to make mankind, if not the world, a better place to live in and perpetuate.

I have written separately on this subject of environment, and I firmly stand by it.