Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Repurpose

Third Rock from the Sun When were you born & What have your spawned. Fish in the water, birds in the sky, Insects that crawl and some that fly; And mammals and reptiles, Plants tiny and colorful, Trees that stand high. Third rock from the sun, What are these creatures that stand upright; With an appetite for destruction, For everything in sight. Forests, Mountains and Rivers, They all seem to disappear; In the name of progress, Much of nature is in distress. Third rock from the sun, When will the wingless biped learn; To live in harmony with nature, To secure his own pitiful future.

Earth is a planet, but one of its kind, Oceans and seas, in shades green and blue; Vast swathes of land & mountains in varied hues. All teeming with life, that God himself designed. Part of this grand design - we the human race, occupy this space - blinded by apathy & no insight; Our ancestors, posed no harm, lived & flourished, acknowledging the planet's mercy and grace. Humans today in our quest to satisfy our greed, Indulge in vanity & inordinate gains - spawn waste; Disregard all in the context of life is considered chaste, In the grand scheme of things, obliterating what we need. Carrying out our actions with inherent impunity,  Little do we realize what our actions result in; Beckoning upon our own despair,  misery &  agony, When earth, for human life, will stop spinning.

The 4Rs Just a few more days left before we move on to yet another "New Year". Hope this, soon to be past, year was all good for those of you who may have chanced upon my blog. My heartfelt condolences to those of you who may have experienced loss of any nature. Hope the new year brings with it the miracle of healing for you. 2015, like any other year, has been eventful with its share of the good, the bad and the ugly. This blog , my first ever, is not a list of the best and the worst of those events, thankfully so. However, one of those events which grabbed headlines and which stirred a debate is the Paris Climate Agreement, if I can refer to it as such. Truthfully, I haven't pored over the "agreement" text in any detail whatsoever. Having read a couple of news articles, here and there, the premise of these "climate change talks" keeps me wondering. Why should it take developed nations more than half-a-century to realise what they've b...