A liability called Human being........

For the past many years we have been hearing about the conservation of nature in the backdrop of developmental activities pursued by the humans. Indeed that is not a bad idea considering the negative effects of development that we experience. The philosophy of conservation of nature that we follow is fundamentally skewed. Conservation and living in harmony with nature means giving equal importance to all components of our milieu. Look at all our nature conserving policy! All these have the most important component as the HUMANS or more precisely the HUMAN is the central aspect around which all this revolves! Be it the ecofriendly farming that is advocated to all farmers or be it an Environmental Impact study (EIA) that goes into project like building a dam or even a SEZ (Special Economic Zone).

But our necessities demand that we follow this method or philosophy.

Different organisms have been the climax species at different levels in the process of evolution at different times in the distant past. Be it the mammoth, the dinosaurs or any other organism that fossils have not revealed us. All these organisms gave way to the succeeding climax species in a very environmentally sustainable manner!! When an organisms found any of its basic requirement wanting, it modulated its requirement and ultimately gave way by yielding to the selection pressure. But prior to their extinction they never exploited the nature beyond a limit! They did not, of course, have the “greatest asset” called forethought (in a much stretched sense). The forethought for the animals other than humans is very short, may be maximum to one season or so but that too is more instinctive rather than one that is sharpened by experience!!! Thus even the extinction process of all organisms in the past too was a sustainable one!!!

This accelerated rate of exploitation is partly due to the fact that we may be the first species on earth which had prior knowledge of its exit from the earth. To prevent this humans do all sort of things and in this process may even be accelerating that event ! Humans backed by extreme forethought which has expressed itself as technology go for exploitation which may even go beyond the earth!! We live today at such levels of exploitation of nature that the next climax species after our exit will find it very difficult to survive. We have access to natural resources that we use today probably because the organisms before us never knew that they will one day fall a prey to selection pressures of nature. Thus they unknowingly cared for their future, in a way they were not selfish!

We definitely are to the core selfish or should I say “humanfish” a superlative of selfishness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!