Today the whole world is talking the Climate Change challenges and its solutions. All world leaders are doing brain storming in Paris today. Have we ever thought the basic cause of the problem? Have we ever to have the strong willingness to make the solution of it??
Indian traditional lifestyle of very friendly for such things. We had sustainability in our life. Our food chain to living habbits were corelated in such a balance manner, we did not require the Waste Management and Climate Change initiatives.
Peepal Tree (Ficus Religiosa) is one of the best source of oxygen which was very pious in Indian Culture. It significance the concern of our ancestors for climate.
People used to use the green waste as fodder for cattle and we did not have the culture of non degradable waste.
We preserved our rivers on the name of worship as mother which shows our concern for the water bodies. Not even only rivers but also the ponds, lakes etc. There are many stories and mythologies are famous for water conservation and purity.
We had very closed relationship with mother nature in terms of house building to food to fodder to earning. And it was a balanced approach. In fact people had very good observation with nature. I met with an old men in Uttarakhand in May 2013 who told me that this year they are going to face a bad flood. I asked the sources of the observation, he said to me, "Is saal Goraiya ne Ghosla upper banaya hai" (This year the sparrow made her nest on the upper side). And after a month Uttarakhand faced the bad flood of the century (June 2013).
I have many such stories to share of such observations. But why we are losing this relationship with mother nature and need of such kind of brain-storming and seminars? What are the reasons behind such disassociation?? Is Indian lifestyle was better, why do we require to follow other things. Why we did not adopt the other culture with its customized version for India.
We have to think and work upon it seriously otherwise world will face more Chennai, Mumbai etc.
Seriously we need to think about it. It is need of the hour to get connected with mother nature. I got goose bumps while reading the instance of sparrow's nest. Please do share more stories so that we can get a glimpse of the behaviour of nature in different situations, so that atleast we can save lives as much as we can.
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