Friday, April 19, 2013

Environmental Issues- Madhav Gadgil & Kasturi Rangan Committee’s Report on Kerala, S.India - KARMA


We belong to a generation that have failed to protect our own ( the present) and future generations of our  land, from impending calamities. For without discrimination, without any critical understanding, we have perpetrated the  same destructive knowledge (Aasuri)  imbibed from an alien civilization. The  pitiable state of our existence is reflected in the fact that our generation is not able to fall back on the knowledge resources, bequeathed on us, by our ancestors. A deliberate psychological campaign was unleashed, especially in academic circles, washing away our trust and confidence in traditional knowledge, which naturally belonged to us. We look down upon such knowledge as not practical for this age, and not yielding monetary and materialistic gains. We are diseased !!!!
Madhav Gadgil 

The  main news in today’s (April 18th)  Malayala Manorama  (Malayalam) paper , is about the fragile nature of Kerala’s  ‘geographical’ environment.  The report says that 1/3 rd of the land mass of Kerala is ‘environmentally/ecologically  FRAGILE’.  It is not  clear whether the  environmental audit had covered the whole land mass of Kerala or only those areas classified as belonging to the Western Ghats and its immediate precincts. Anyway, overall,  the picture is one of anxiety, regarding the basic material  needs  essential for living. ie clean air, water and food and other basic necessities like stable climactic patterns, power and availability of building materials.
Kasturi Rangan

Though Kerala is not highly  industrialized like other Indian States and other industrialized nations,  still we have reached the brink. The reason is that we are following  the consumptive patterns of highly industrialized nations without adequate social controls. Even the ‘well-governed’ industrialized nations are not able to sustain their lifestyles with resources raised from within. All this points to the reality , that we cannot have any succour from  ephemeralistic modern knowledge and systems.  Our only hope of  reversing this suicidal trend , before we veer off the cliff, is to fall back upon traditional  methods of living based on traditional knowledge. Our traditional knowledge is post-modern , and we as a civilization have the exclusive credit of analysing  human nature and conduct (action/karma) derived from a full and proper understanding of the coming into being of the COSMOS.  Ah ! we understand the whole picture !!!!
Drinking water being transported

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