Hi,
In our culture, we treat Earth as mother goddess . Indeed all the forces of nature: the sun, the soil, the air, the water have been granted a divine status in almost all civilizations. They have been looked upon as benefactors , caring guardians.
There is a theory which even accords earth a life of its own. According to the Gaia hypothesis, earth itself is a living being, and all tectonic movements are its 'life-processes'.
This is one extreme.
On the other hand, there is a school of thought which posits that nature as such has never been kind towards human beings, or towards any living being, for that matter. We and other species have survived solely due to our tenacity and adaptive qualities.
If we stop all the works which 'disrupt the ecological balance' , will there be no more earthquakes & volcanoes, floods & draughts, tsunamis & hurricanes ? In fact some of the world's most devastating natural disasters have occurred in the era when the industrial pollution was in its infancy.
Yours,
Yours,
- G.
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