Dr. Bevinje Srinivas Kakkilaya – ಡಾ॥ ಬೇವಿಂಜೆ ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ ಕಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲಾಯ
O ur beautiful blue planet, Earth, was formed almost four and a half billion years ago and a billion years or so later Life appeared on it. As myriad forms of life evolved, each dependent on the other, our planet was at one time probably the most spectacular part of the Universe. Then evolved, about 200 thousand years ago, a species called Man. Mother Nature’s intentions were certainly good. But this particular species thought otherwise.
He lived the life of a hunter-gatherer for most of his life. Only about 12000 years ago, he decided to grow his own food. And plundered the forests, the erstwhile source of all his food, to make vast, cultivable fields. He domesticated animals, some even bigger than him, to ‘help’ him. In some parts of the world today, these animals, the livestock, even outnumber man himself! Then he started trading. And expanded the repertoire of tradable commodities, built factories, ever the bigger, all spewing a variety
And his zest for faster trade and travel brought the cars and the jets that drank all the fuel hidden inside the earth’s belly, only to spew more venom onto the atmosphere. As the gases of the livestock and the factories and the cars and the jets enveloped the earth, global temperatures have started rising. Water, the very essence of life, is becoming scarce. With oil wells drying up, food grains are finding their way into fuel tanks, as though feeding the machines is more important and urgent than feeding
Dr. Bevinje Srinivas Kakkilaya – ಡಾ॥ ಬೇವಿಂಜೆ ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ ಕಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲಾಯ