Sunday 23 September 2012

the age of loneliness.

Biodiversity is to be thought of  as more than just the diversity of life forms on planet Earth. The diversity of thought. Of opinion. Of religion . Of ideas about culture and Art are just as important.  Monotheist ideas about anything are just too dangerous. 

Live and Let Live is an idea  that is hugely important in these times of narrowing fields of thought about everything. 



He regrets that if such indiscriminate annihilation of all biodiversity from the face of the earth happens for anthropogenic reasons, as has been seen now, it is sure to force humanity into an emotional shock and trauma of loneliness and helplessness on this planet. He believes that the current wave of biodiversity loss is sure to lead us into an age that may be appropriately called the “Eremozoic Era, the Age of Loneliness.” Loss of biodiversity is a much greater threat to human survival than even climate change. Both could act, synergistically too, to escalate human extinction faster.



Biodiversity provides all basic needs for our healthy survival — oxygen, food, medicines, fibre, fuel, energy, fertilizers, fodder and waste-disposal, etc. Fast vanishing honeybees, dragonflies, bats, frogs, house sparrows, filter (suspension)-feeder oysters and all keystone species are causing great economic loss as well as posing an imminent threat to human peace and survival. The three-fold biodiversity mission before us is to inventorise the existing biodiversity, conserve it, and, above all, equitably share the sustainable benefits out of it.


http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/beware-the-loss-of-biodiversity/article3927062.ece

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