The world today is environmentally aware, indeed very conscious, at least theoretically, if not in practice. Multiple debates happen on multiple fora. The usual suspects, industry, vehicles, the self-obsessed consumerism, all such usual culprits, get their share of the much deserved blame. Debates happen, discussions continue.
One major factor of the natural cycle, however, gets less focussed attention. That is the soil. Crop failures are literally rooted in the soil issue. Due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers, due to soil erosion given the cutting down of the green cover, due to erratic monsoon patterns and floods that add to this problem, the health of soil is suffering hugely. In fact, it is inching fast and surely towards a certain death.
Soil is indeed soiled. Sure, efforts to make it bounce back to health are afoot, too. The 'Save the Soil' day gets celebrated the world over. High profile movements by the government are encouraged. Famous guru's with a huge fan following jazz it up. Farmers are urged repeatedly to use organic fertilisers. Instead of burning the butts and the dead leaves, farmers are getting trained to turn these in to organic manure.
All such efforts should be more and more concerted and concentrated. True, today is the era of designer waterfalls, artificial rain, vertical farming, and the GM, or the genetically modified, crops. These, too, have their own problems. Instead, it is safer and better to follow Mother Nature who lovingly nurtured the soil cover over centuries and millennia. In brief, save soil to save ourselves!
Pratima@"Earth we are and to Earth we return," say all the religious texts. Why not take care of birthplace ( and the final resting place according to all the Abrahamic religions) of not only human-beings, but of the very natural cycle?
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