A Perfect Lesson For Us All

 

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/randomaccess/entry/a-humane-tigress-and
-heartless

 

The above article once again reminds us that we should not mess with nature and
nature's natural progression. We all agree that nature by all means is
beautiful, even though, we sometimes have to bear the ferocity that can
devastate humanity, be it the volcanoes, the tsunami's, the thunder and
lightening, fire, wind, waves, rain, fog, clouds, snow or hailstones, all these
nature's happenings have ever so entranced and enchanted mankind, and man is
still fighting a loosing battle to find the causes and the ways and means to
control them or curb them. 

 

Scientists and geologists have spent their life time, going through hardships
and even death to educate us and the generations to come, about the
repercussions of messing with nature, but alas, when will it ever sink into our
thick skulls that we should leave nature, to it's self to create the required
balance, for the survival of this very planet.

 

History has been a witness to the wrath and fury of nature, which mankind is
still very much ill equipped to face, leave alone tackle or even dream of
curbing. On more occasions than not, man has invited the fury of nature unto
himself, and has been swept away each and every time. Even with all the wisdom
and the advancement in science and technology, man is helpless against the force
and fury of nature. So the only viable option to mankind is to leave nature to
it's own terms and progressions.

 

In Goa, our money minded politicians to make a fast buck, have played havoc with
nature by allowing rampant mining, destroying forests and hills, destroying the
precious vegetation, and driving wild animals away from their natural habitat.
We have been witnesses to the dwindling water resources, fertile lands being
scorched and to the loss of our flora and fauna as a result of this atrocious
attack on mother nature, as a result of which some of us have borne the fury of
nature, and what have we learnt from it, or have we ?  

 

Of late we have been hearing of wild animals attacking humans, in and around
their homes. If our homes are destroyed don't we seek food and shelter else
where ? So too it is with wild animals. Once their natural habitat in destroyed
and devastated by mining, where are they suppose to go, find food and shelter ?
When we mess with nature, we invite the ills on ourselves. Wild life, left to
it's self in their own habitat, will not attack humans as long as their domain
is not invaded, but will man's curiosity and greed, ever let him do it ? 

 

The above article is a perfect lesson for each one of us and more so for the
forest officials. Even though the tigress felt threatened, she just displayed
her natural instincts, but in no uncertain terms warned the man responsible for
the threat, to leave her and her cubs alone and was lucky, that he lost just one
eye rather than his life, in the standoff.  Live and let live should be our
precise objective towards nature, if we want to live in harmony with nature. 

 

Our corrupt politicians have been pacifying the environmental activists, by
setting up different commissions and committees, but have they at any time
followed the proposals, that have been made or recommended, to protect our
environment ? What exactly happened to the remains of the tiger, that were found
at Keri ? Or are the officials still trying to make Mr. Kamat the scapegoat, for
their short comings and inefficiency ?  It goes to show just how indifferent,
our authorities are towards wild life and our environment. 

 

Our present corrupt politicians certainly lack the integrity, basic ethics,
honesty, dedication and above all morals, to make Goa the Jewel that it once
was, by protecting and preserving what's left of Mother Goa and providing a
clean and constructive governance. Will I be wrong in saying, that just because
electricity comes from electrons, why should we expect morality and good
constructive governance from morons, we keep electing over and over again, thus
proving, we ourselves are morons.

 

Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
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