Question

What do you think living in harmony with nature?

Answer 1

Nature nurtures us and sustains us. It provides us with its valuable resources and gifts - food, medicinal herbs, scenic beauty, fresh waters, etc. We are entitled to use and exploit these resources keeping in mind these are not exclusively meant for us. The flora and fauna have equal claim over these. Moreover, the carrying capacity of the nature has not to be breached. It needs time to recycle and recuperate the damage inflicted upon it. It has a tremendous self healing power but we have often disproportionately mismanaged and exploited the endowments of our nature beyond its healing threshold. Rivers have been polluted, air poisoned and soil degraded. We have induced thousands of species of plants and animals to extinction by depriving them the nurture from the nature. Deforestation, industrial expansion, mining and rapid infrastructure development at the expense of the nature has rendered our planet sick. Evidence is crystal clear in rising incidences of diseases, warming, sea level rise, erractic climate, increased occurence of natural calamities.Ecosystems are all inter dependent and inter connected to every specie and abiotic factors that constitute it. Manhandling even a single link will dismantle the delicate machinery.

The need of the hour is that we recognise and realise the harm we have inflicted to the nature in pursuit of our selfish motives. It's high time that we learn to live in harmony with nature. We must protect all the living beings and our environment before it's too late, before it becomes irreparable, before we are doomed beyond redemption. Only then we will be able to conserve and sustain its beauty and delicacies for our future generations.