Pollution

 Recently was celebrated the pollution control day. Yes, in the environmentally conscious world today, pollution is indeed a big challenge. We indeed need to check it, control it ASAP.

Pollution, every school child can tell us, is of multiple varieties, be it air, water, sound, and so on. Personally I think though that the real pollution is that of  human greed. Let me give a few examples to clarify why I think so.

Look at Delhi, for example. Most winters, the Delhi air is beyond breathing. That is undoubtedly because of the exhaust gases. Equally responsible is the farming practice of burning the remains of the earlier produce so that the farmland grows fertile for the next seeding cycle.

Even in Maharashtra, every summer, there are forest fires. Most often, that calamity is because of such farming practices. Well, there are very many alternative organic methods of making the farmland ready for the next planting pattern. In other words, most pollution problems emerge out of human interventions.

Let me give another example. The Amazon forest, full of the rarest of the rare flora and fauna, is being burnt. My e-mail box gets daily at least two such messages regarding such environmental disasters, and appeals to help out. I try whatever I can manage regarding the saving of ambience.

Yet the real pollution in my opinion is that of the thought process, the mindset.  This pollution vitiates truly. Be it human greed, jealousy, viciousness, such impurities  create the real problems which are manifested in multiple ways.

Hence I liked the idea the P.M. floated this evening in his victory speech. He stated very clearly that the only four castes are women, youth, farmers, and the poor. In an ambience vitiated by irritatingly strident,  often most ignorant, and absolutely self-centric casteist debates, this thought in the welfare mould/mode cuts across all sorts of narrow boundaries, right? 

Hopefully, the thought pollution would somehow get controlled. The moment that happens, children would not be hostages as in the Gaza Strip. Nor would the Russia-Ukraine war go on endlessly to suit the war industry or egos across the world, Putin to the U.S. senate using this godsend to downsize him! Such  'vision'ary pollution check would not only use alternative energy like the sunshine, but it would also guarantee forever that no Hiroshima happens again!

Pratima@ Sant Dnyaneshwar writes, "the darknesses of the vicious vanish must." The moment such an insight is revered and realised, all pollutions of all sorts sure would end!