Though official data is not out yet, still it seems a good stead to believe that pollution level did descend from the yesteryear years’ Diwali. However this would not be passed off unarguably. Till the recce is formed and disclosed, let’s enjoy the euphoric expression, let’s form a bubble, maybe only to see it burst ultimately and bring forth the brutal reality of regressing environmental faculties.
Well, let’s for once be true to ourselves. Who are we fooling but ourselves if we continue ignoring what has been overlooked long already? We have already conceded a few fatal blows, tipped the tipping point, overlapped the no point of return in our tryst with the destiny, even if we procrastinate into believing the gospel fact only till the time permits. Even if Diwali was greener, so as to say, it was not much of a difference to the depleted-beyond-repairs environment.
Certainly, no matter how much we euphemise the situation, there is a deep rooted fact that pollution is no trivial matter and is here to stay for at least as long as our stay. The little that we can do is to help control the damage that has already been inflicted upon, and anything more than appeasing doesn’t seem a viable option, neither economically nor technically; May be in the near future but an emphatic no to its present proposition.
In this eat-‘em-up-and-spit-‘em-out world, where everything is short-term and myopically viewed as a good-only-if-consumed commodity, we human beings, never tend to let go of our aboriginal thinking. Even if it consumes the entire race, ravages it off its existence from the face of the Earth-WHO CARES! That is the kind of attitude we façade. Time is no more a sand that it used to be, when they would caution “Watch out, for the time slips out of your hand”; In times now it has turned into a black-holish everglade hiding in plain sight with bated breath to pounce onto its victim as they fall prey to its hypocritically disguised demeanour.
We say we are doing enough, but the question is: What is the measure of “enough”? Who decides the calibrating scale in regards to it? The plain and blatant truth is that the loss caused by us is irreparable and lasting and our only chance is to realize the graveness of the matter and act assiduously in our routinely and not-so-routinely chores we do because it’s these little-and-large things that matter ultimately. So, are you game for the change that needs be?
