The state of affairs of Japan today haunts me day in and day out. More than half the population in the affected areas must have vanished in fraction of seconds. What does the transformation from first world to third world in two days teach us?
Why God has chosen this fate to the Japanese People. Have they done anything wrong? Was their destiny or Karma is the cause of this. If this is the result of Karma, what is the meaning of Life? Is there any Guru or Mystic out there to explain this in simple words without using Vedic jugglery?
Statistics about Japan is very impressive. A major economic power, and world's third-largest economy It is a developed country with very high living standards. Japan has the highest life expectancy of any country in the world and the third lowest infant mortality rate if we do not consider such earthquakes and tsunami.
In spite of all this today reports say thousand of people spent days without food, water and electricity, they stand in queue for hours to get drinking water! They are failing terrifically to contain nuclear leakage and a becoming a big threat to the neighboring countries also. A good example of technology developed by human being is running out of their control.
What lessons do we need to learn from this?
We have exploited this planet endlessly. We constructed sky scrapers on river and sea beds. Our comfortable life and longing for energy forced us to make nuclear power plants without any accepted wisdom. We dig deep into the earth to drain more and more liquid gold.
Instead of embracing the world human beings are trying to conquer it by all means. Science and technology has become a means to use everything in the planet for the benefit of humans and not for the benefit of the planet where we dwell. We think this world is only for the use of human beings. Every creature in this world has a right to live not only the humans. We conveniently forget this.
Human greed is increasing day by day. Money has become everything in life. We started believing that economic prosperity is everything. This Tsunami swept away all the economic prosperity within second.
Human population is increasing in double fold. AS per UN human population will touch 9.6 billion by 2030, is it possible for our planet to address this kind of human population’s aspirations? Are there enough resources in this planet to accommodate such a massive population explosion? Is there any meaning in talking about ecology and land conservations without controlling human population?
I remember the Malthusian theory of population I studied in senior secondary school. I am now strained to believe that Malthusian theory is coming true and nature is reacting to human senselessness in a cruel manner.
I am scared to believe that we are heading towards more and more natural disasters and rage in the coming years.
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