Today, theme of Environmental Development has extended from research activities into a global NGO network and expanded at the top international policies level. On the contrary, we are facing the reality that more than half of world populations live in cities, and many people barely get a glimpse natural serenity. Yet not incriminated the unfortunate tendency of being unable to predict future responding to immediate local crisis and not taking notice for greater natural threats for the sustainable collective survival. The mal development facts that stands as an impoverishment of the majority in developing countries where overexploitation of natural resources bases has been running and contributing to natural degradation. The exposure flash focuses ethical and humanitarian reason and much more for luxury and poverty. Luxurious lifestyle has lead into waste of resources and poverty has resulted in the exploitation of left overs.
“We begin to get the impression that we were somehow above and separate from nature”-Craig Chalquist.
There are numerous examples in daily experiences from where the toxic chemicals raise up. Once the toxic chemicals are airborne, the pollutants get transported over thousands of kilometers before getting condensed and falling once more on the earth’s surface into water and soil and finally getting exposed to the human environment once again. Fortunately the toxic level of chemical doesn’t seem high in practical life but we human beings have appeared to be contributing to a great climate change by destroying at the best form what has remained on the earth. Climate change is a natural phenomenon for one case. The internal and external forcing factors for climate change are natural. In a general understanding of past, earth was a place for warm blooded animals (reptiles) that travelled around the earth for millions of years ago and the present deserted areas once were covered with water. The earth was a warm place with high sea levels and less polar areas. After being hit by a meteor and being wrapped in dust particles the earth started freezing and ice age thus began with the rise of cold blooded animals and humans.
Scientists, who want to claim serious attention to them, find a way to scare the public by making things more complicated than they really are. But the main fact is we can’t deny the observations and calculations done by professional experts. Since the industrial and commercial market were created, critics have attracted the attention of the whole world spreading about the effects of global warming and other serious consequences of climate change from artificial (human) mechanisms. It’s a truth to speak that the cost of depriving society of the future availability of natural resources is still not totally accounted during the manufacturing and extraction processes. We humans seem to be clearly short sighted as we are in rush to mitigate our immediate crisis ignoring the larger threats that are going to come and the treats are not only for us but for the coming generations and millions of other natural species around earth that are dying at the rate of 200 species per day.
Different methods have been proposed to mitigate the future threats making predictions and coming up with better ideas of managing the resources but the commercial market that distributes resources across society, has considered nature to be a “use and throw for free” item since nature hasn’t got anything back to generate itself. Thus the economic growth we see has failed to include the environment in its calculations. Obviously economics is a major topic advising global and local policy as wealth is essential and the economic growth cannot be undermined. But, when a mother gets ill, it’s the duty of children to get her cured. If we agree that current environmental degradation should be controlled and cured, the use and throw concept should be ended by introducing sustainable behaviors in human world and eradicating such markets governed by money and power in a step wise process.
An example: If a solar 4 wheeler is cheaper and gives high efficiency than the diesel one, which shall we prefer? The answer lies within.
Context and Perspectives 