Monday, March 29, 2010

A Huge Price To Pay

I realised that sometimes I am very harsh or rude in the comments about economic developments in the developing countries which cause pollutions, greenhouse effect , drought, landslide and natural disasters. As a christian, I am taught not to be angry but to be passionate.
But I just can`t stop to be angry when trees are being cut down, forests cleared for the sake of so-called ' economic development". What is the use of development if the standard of living gets poorer and we live in a polluted environment? What is the use of development if everyday we are caught in traffic jams, suffering from air and water pollutions? Can economic development bring about clean air and good health and happiness?The Chinese in China now are paying a hugh price bacause its government did not have the wisdom and cleared forests for constructing dams , roads and railways. They are suffering from droughts, lanslides, earthquake , air and water pollution and other natural disasters. The nature will teach them a lesson.

Thus, if the governments concerned have wisdom, they should have a balanced development. They have to ensure that trees cut down are replanted or they can only cut down the replanted trees.

When things are not done right and everybody keeps quiet, then one day it will be too late if we wake out and suddenly realise that few or no trees are left on the Earth`s surface. That is the end of civilisation. I hope the world leaders have the wisdom to stop deforestations immediately. Otherwise, they are not fit to be called leaders . They are as good as destroyers of Earth and mankind.

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