Article | Every Creature Is Necessary For Us | Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh | Central Chronicle

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Article | Every Creature Is Necessary For Us -  Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh

Writer, Author & Social Activist
Blogger - "Climate Diary Of Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh"

In the last two years, we have seen large forests of the world being set on fire. Saw their wildlife burning in smoke. He also heard the threat of disaster due to melting and breaking of glaciers in his country's Uttarakhand. It is sad that we are still ignoring the relationship between forest and human life.  Whereas the existence of earth and humans depends on forests and other creatures. We should remember that every creature is important to us.

We see very few species of birds around our house. Only those birds are able to walking with us, which are living fighting the waves of mobile phone towers and the pollution dissolved in the air. Some people think that what have these birds doing for us? Whereas the truth is that every living being is mutually useful to each other. Everyone knows that the biggest benefit of birds is that they help in pollination and seed distribution of plants. In daily life, birds maintain a positive environment with their melodious voice and their presence. Similarly, we ignore the earthworm. Earthworm specializes in fertilizing soil. Let's leave around the house, remember those wild animals which have reached the brink of extinction due to us humans. Lion, tiger, cheetah, leopard, and all four are predatory animals by nature but they keep their numbers in control by killing other animals in the forest like Asian antelope, deer, chital etc. But they do not hunt just for fun but to feed them and survive. If a lion has a full stomach, it never hunts. It is we humans who kept hunting in the list of entertainment and put many wild animal species in danger.

"You stop the clouds
And ask-
Where did you come from?
He will say - from the sea.
You ask the sea-
Where did you get the water?
He will say-
From rivers
Ask the rivers
From where did they get the water?
She will say-
From underground sources
Asking from underground sources-
How did you preserve water?
They would say-
Not us, the roots of those trees and trees
Who stopped the erosion of the land?
Shaped us
So that we can store water for the rivers
Understand now?
That's why the sea says-
Want to save this earth
So first save the trees,
If there are trees, then the earth will also be there.

    I wrote this poem in the year 2016 specially to speak while giving a lecture in a convention based on the topic "Literature, Earth and Environment". The event was organized by an NGO in Lucknow (U.P.). From school students to environmentalists participated in it. I recited this poem of mine along with my lecture in the first session. People liked it very much. But I don't know how many people followed its message. I mentioned this poem because it always keeps knocking in my heart and mind.

Planet Earth is home to 8.7 million species, scientists estimate. Three-quarters of the 8.7m species – the majority of which are insects – are on land; only one-quarter, 2.2m, are in the deep, even though 70% of the Earth's surface is water. Nature is the companion of man.  Nature naturally provides healthy life to human beings through balanced environment.  Our sages were committed to the protection and development of nature.  He was knowledgeable about the scientific method of purifying the environment by eliminating air pollution through Yagya.  He also knew that nature naturally balances itself by excluding whatever is excess or indigestible.

In Indian culture, the Vanprastha Ashram determined under the ashram system was directly related to living in the forest. The elders living in the forest used the vegetation found in the forest. He used to be friends with wild animals and shared his experiences with his descendants. We should remember about Shakunlata and Dushyanta's son Bharata. According to the legend, Bharata lived in the sage's ashram with his mother Shakuntala. There he used to play among the wild animals. That is why holding him with both his hands, he was not afraid to open the lion's mouth. Because he was familiar with the nature of the lion. It is meant to say that we should try to become more familiar with the nature of animals, birds, insects and moths living on this earth with us. Only then can a good symbiosis go on on earth.

Just think why did Noah secure a couple of each animal species in his boat? Wasn't it enough for him to just save human? Because he knew that every species is necessary for the existence of the earth. The development of the environment on earth is not possible from human being which is necessary for the life of human beings.

In the last hundred years, human beings have taken long strides of progress in every direction of economic, physical and social life.  He had only one objective of progress in these areas – this would serve his own interest.  He did not pay any attention to the effects of this progress on the environment.  The things around the organisms which affect their life activities form the environment. We know that trees and plants give us oxygen to live. Then why do I ignore trees and plants?

So, nature is the basis of human life. Humans have been dependent on nature since the development of civilization and uses natural resources. In recent decades, human civilization has started to over-exploit natural resources. Large forests were destroyed. How many such animals were hunted to such an extent that they are on the verge of extinction and some even became extinct. Pollution is increasing continuously due to which negative changes are taking place in nature and catastrophic consequences like Global warming are being seen. According to scientists, sea creatures have been affected the most. Sea creatures are exploited the most, as well as the most pollution in the sea itself. As a result, hundreds of species in the coastal region are on the verge of extinction today.                              
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(13.03.2022)
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