There is enough on this planet for everyone needs but not for anyone greed . Elaborate on the above words of Mahatma Gandhi with respect to agricultural practices
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India's great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody's need, but not enough for everybody's greed. Today, Gandhi's insight is being put to the test as never before.
I think it is exactly true and will be humanities downfall. Many of our ancestors understood that there would be enough on Earth for everyone. We would live in balance of Earth and all other life on Earth, we though are resourceful and greedy, we always want more of everything, more than we need or could ever need.
We waste and lay waste to everything we touch, we no longer adapt to our environment, or racial differences or features mean little now except to decide us. Now we make our environment adapt to us throwing nature off balance, not just where we are but everywhere. Cause and effect, what we do here most likely effects things in other places near and far depending on what we do. Pollution is one of those effects that we cannot fully understand or control, but there are many other effects from our resourcefulness.
Necessity is based on perspective. People define necessity in different ways.
Recently this 15 year old girl 'needed' a $ 951,000 car. And she got it.
So…people with those kinds of necessities exist. And considering they do, there may not be enough for our needs.
We probably have the resources to keep people alive and fed, but not, for everyone to live like a wasteful human being.
Put another way, we are the problem. The hierarchies, the disparities, they always use the excuse that there just isn’t enough, but the truth is, we want more than the next guy, and more than we need, and so we perpetuate these problems for ourselves.
Human need by definitions is finite, definite and reasonable. Greed is the opposite. Nature knows the difference. Humans don’t.