How have we exploited our mother nature
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The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements has underlined the urgent need to protect the environment in so that the next generation can inherit a liveable world. The climate change that has taken place over the past few years has been marked by an extreme heat wave, forest fires in the United States and recently in the Amazon rain forest. It was reported in The Statesman on 25 August that scientists have stated that “The dramatic scale of this year’s fire in Amazon is a result of significant acceleration of deforestation for the lumber industry, for agriculture or for other human activities”. This only highlights the reality that society’s exploitation of nature to meet its physical needs continues even today. As a result natural calamities are occurring more frequently. Such disasters are rooted in climate change. Scientists have urged the world community to take immediate steps to mitigate climate change; otherwise there may be worse disasters in the days to come, endangering cities and civilisations from the face of the earth. It has been reported that Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, is sinking.
Human beings are responsible for the deterioration and exploitation of nature and the world’s resources. It is the affluent Western countries that are primarily responsible for such exploitation to facilitate luxurious living conditions. The natural and mineral resources thus destroyed have never been replaced.
The United Nations Conference on Environment held about seven decades ago drew the attention of the world community to safeguarding the environment and the close relationship between human settlements and environment. The meeting yielded the declaration by the UN Habitat ~ “We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children”. This caveat makes it clear that exploitation of the earth’s resources will impact the future generation and that is exactly what is happening now. Climate change is taking place because of random exploitation of the earth’s trees, plants and water.