Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Unity of Humanity!


After billions of years of evolution, life on earth has arrived. We, the Homo sapiens, evolved some 2, 00,000 to 4, 50,000 years ago.  Modern human beings migrated from Africa and spread over to Asia, and subsequently Europe and other countries.  Research has proved beyond doubt that humans are genetically the same.  In other words we have a common background and all our racial prejudices are misplaced and not at all relevant.

Unity of humanity largely depends on what we, the enlightened citizens, think and act collectively to overcome  the current problems that we face. To arrive at a definite workable solution, all those who truly feel the urgency, should come together and dispassionately discuss it. We have evolved over a period of time and developed certain social, economic, political and cultural values which we think rightly or wrongly as unquestionable.

Without doubt, all will admit that we have distorted views of what life is all about and what would give us a happy and satisfactory life. We are obsessed by greed and overlook whether the technology led civilisation will sustain us on a long term basis. Our zealous passion for comfort and luxury at the cost of depriving the elementary needs of billions of people sans any guilt pangs is highly deplorable.

Some soul searching within each one of us with compassion and love for the planetary citizens will definitely help individually and collectively.  All sections of people irrespective of national, religious and racial prejudice should come together to find a solution.

As per the expert survey, we have exhausted much of the available resources and we would not be able to sustain the prevailing standard of high standard of life as we desire. There is a systemic erosion of ecosystem. The emissions of greenhouse gases are causing  growing global warming. Its consequences will endanger the very life of future generations.  

Stockpiles of nuclear weapons and the ever growing trend of adding more weapons to one's military stock will end in an unimaginable situation of total destruction of earth and its species. We cannot rule out such an eventuality as there is no attempt to reduce or eliminate such inhuman weapons.

Scarcity of natural resources such as clean air, water, land, food will also lead to violent confrontation within nations and war between nations.

We know we have already reached a high level of 7 billion people and by 2050; it would touch 10 billion.  Can we imagine such a worst predicament?

We are ready to shed our blood for God, but are we ready to think over the present unpredictable situations when humanity will cease to an end.  We do not think over the future and  believe that God above will find a solution.

We can definitely avoid such an uncertain future and take remedial solution now. The unity of humanity  in resolving the frightening unpredictable plight of humanity is what is the need of the hour!

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