22nd April- World Earth Day

22nd April is celebrated as "Earth Day" to mark the increasing importance of preserving the environment, resources and a natural ecological balance in/on/around the earth...our development efforts have exploited earth like anything bringing in present  alarming situation. We call earth as mother n taking advantage of that relation we took her guranted. In this context ecofeminst Vandana Shiva in her "Emptying Earth" aptly puts the way ppl have exploited women similar treatment is being subjected to the mother Earth...The conspicuous consumption ethos have damaged unprecedentedly. The saying of "need of more than two earths to meet the pace of American consumerist tendency for whom world" should be taken seriously. The ecological overshoot day or ecological debt day is shrinking towards mid July or even closer, the duration of a year for which earth regenerates resources to meet our need for ensuing year...so, alarming call to economise our consuming culture else the water war like situation is on brink as Brahma chellany, a global strategic thinker in his new book "Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis " rightly puts.....Further, it's not unwarranted to mention the conflict owing to "resource curse" in middle East n African regions causing a human distress for whole world...Here, also the African(Kenyan) proverb "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our Children" to be put to indicate Gandhian sustainability view.....can we take pledge today on our individual level  not to be disillusioned by others consumerist behaviours, glorification of gluttony food habits ( ate whole night chicken at room n in morning went to Kareem to continue the mission, a poor vegie friend followed the wolves only..😀😜)? Can we pledge to create awareness for even smaller habits of energy savings? Yes, we can n must if yesterday we celebrated civil services day to dedication this life for better cause.....😀😀