Kalpana Chawla was extremely proud of her birth-place and made every effort to bring it
into the lime-light. During space flights she sould proudly point it out to her fellow-astonauts. Once,
during the second flight she remembered her closest friend, Daisy Chawla, who died in a road
accident. In fact, despite her celebrity status, she took pains to track down her former teachers,
classmates and friends in India and showed a keen desire to stay in touch with them. Her
affectionate and humble nature won the hearts of all who came in contact with her.
Although Kalpana had a strong desire to go to Mars, fly over its canyons and die in space,
she was equally concerned about the well-being of the earth.. She always urged young people to
listen to the sounds of nature and take care of our fragile planet. During her space, trips, she took
many breath-taking photographs of the earth for various terrestrial studies later on the ground.
When she was in space, she always felt a sense of connection with everyone on the earth. And write the summary by giving title of the summary
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In this chapter, the writer raises an issue towards the deteriorating health of the earth. As human beings have been exploiting natural resources from decades, presently the condition has made the environment critical. In 1972, the Green Movement helped environmentalists to raise awareness about the harmful condition of the earth and since then there has been no looking back as the movement has been successfully educating people about the conservation of the environment.
Earth is like a patient whose health is declining and it is our duty to improve it. In 1987, the term Sustainable Development was used by the World Commission on Environment and Development. A zoo in Lukasa, Zambia has a cage in which a sign reads ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’ and inside there is a mirror. It gives a message that human beings are the most dangerous animals. Brandt Commission raised a question “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment?”
There are four principal biological systems that form the foundation of the global economic system - fisheries, grasslands, forests, and croplands. These four systems also provide food and raw materials for industries except for minerals and synthetics. With these systems becoming unsustainable, fisheries will collapse, the forest will slowly disappear, grasslands will turn into a barren wasteland and croplands will become worse.
In poor countries, forests are being cut down for fuelwood which is used for cooking purposes. There are some areas where the cost of fuelwood is more than the cost of food. It is leading to deforestation at an alarming rate.
One of the reasons for the exploitation of the environment is the increasing population. It is observed that about one million population is increasing in every four days. This is not a good sign. There is an urgent need to control overpopulation in the world. Development is the best contraceptive for this problem as it will help in reduction in fertility, increase in education and income and improvement in health.
We must see the world as a whole and not as dissociated parts. It is a holistic and ecological view. According to Lester brown, we have not inherited the earth from our forefathers but we have borrowed it from our future generations.
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