About an year ago I saw a movie called “The Happening” .It was based on the theme that the way Humans are damaging it, Nature has started reacting .In the movie this reaction came through plants. After watching the movie I felt it was entertaining but now I feel actually it was alarming!
Why?
Please consider the following facts!
I checked Brief History of the most commonly known diseases which have an epidemic element and the list included
HIV Aids more than twenty-five million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2008, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 2 million men, women and children lost their lives. 33.4 million people around the world are now living with HIV. according to http://www.avert.org/
Swine Flue Recent World wide total: 1,562,049 cases, 16,665 deaths according to www.flucount.org
Bird Flue There have been 252 human deaths globally from the H5N1 strain and 399 confirmed cases of infection since 2003, according to WHO data.
What these three diseases have in common is that their origins are associated with what Humans have traditionally lived with or consumed for their survival!
HIV Aids virus originated in populations of wild chimpanzees in West-Central Africa
Swine Flue is related to regular exposure to pigs
Bird Flue related virus is often traced to locations where humans, chickens and pigs live in close proximity.
As per my understanding animals of chimpanzee family are consumed in Africa whereas Pig(Pork meat) is majorly consumed in America and Europe.Chicken meat is consumed throughout the world.Now when these animals are becoming the source of such epidemics than it can be considered a change in Nature’s behaviour just like about 20 years ago in order to stop Mosquitos from spreading Malaria,It was suggested to keep the neighbourhood clean but now those Mosquitos are spreading "Dengue" for which they live on clean water(like swimming pools,Water tanks or water stored in plant pots).
I would always want to know more about the changes in Nature’s behaviour but like some other people at times I feel that instead of observing the changes in Nature’s Behaviour we should be analysing the Human behaviour which has changed over period of time due to uneven distribution of wealth.We should be more concerned about the large numbr of deaths coming by Famine, Terrorism and Wars rather than the ones through animal spread viruses!
Does it suit the thirld world’s citizens to think about Nature and Pollution when we are stuck in lot more basic issues like providing basic education,clean water and effective administrative systems?
Or
We should be concerned about Nature and its related elements because they also have an influence on Human Beahviour and over a period of time those civilizations have progressed which closely observe Nature and the Environment which they are living in!
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u have really dne ur work on this n i fully agree with ur arguments
ReplyDeleteI sometimes reflect on the question that why we have been forced to face health related challenges. Once, epidemic influenza, TB, small pox etc were major challenges. Now we have overcome these diseases. We have made a great success to deal with cancer. But now AIDS, Hepatitis B & C etc. are new challenges. Why? I admit I do not have the clue. But one thing is sure, life is a self-destructing phenomenon. Even our own body acts to destroy its own self. I feel, in whole created cosmos, there is strong current of self-destruction. This phenomenon of never-ending-new-diseases, is something intrinsic to the nature of things and is an essential part of the great scheme of things.
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