By- Mudit Ahuja
In the following set of words, we are going to break a much-recognized adage that goes like ‘never look back into the past’. Hand on heart, not the perfect thing that one should be doing at this moment considering the only brief positivity we are privileged for now. However, on the same side, I believe that an eye-opener is must. I promise not to sell any perspectives here but only a brief set of facts that will rest my case but not the cause.
Hypothetically, if we observe the environment we are living in closely, not only in the literal sense but practical, we can conclude how quickly things have changed in the past 365 days. We had been struck by a deadly virus which is far from over even to date, we have had a couple of forest fires not so far away, adding to that we have the melting glaciers thanks to extreme weather which is ‘dam-breaking’. We have the record low levels of essentials like ground water and almost every natural resource. Some far away we have children who are dying of hunger, malnutrition.
Almost in every part of the world, successfully formulated an extreme bipolar society divided on the basis of beliefs, caste, race, creed and what not which is just adding to the increasing number of unnatural deaths across the globe.
This is the right moment to ask, aren’t we as humans, living in a society that is functioning at extremity?
To simplify, we have tested nature to its limit be it climate change, animal hunting, deforestation, exploitation of natural resources and lastly population. One thing that is common in the previous set of words is its maximal exploitation. Things have gotten worse from bad. The population is skyrocketing due to which the demand is catapulting and concomitantly the need is not just the basics anymore.
It has been a long time now that we have been enjoying this bull-run. Sooner the better that we realize the basic concept of physics that higher the object goes, the faster it falls. The present circumstances are just a few of many omens that we seem to comfortably ignore.
Witnessing the negative rise in the last 22 years I have been awake and after some prolonged thinking, I can comfortably ask a much needed favor and that is - “Is it time to draw the LINE”, the line being at the levels we are working at. In the technical language, we are at the climax of our bull run. Thus, this is the time that we learn to draw the line.
About Mudit Ahuja.
Mudit is a final year student at ILS Law College.
He aspires to be a renowned counsel in future. His areas of interest are Commercial and Constitutional Laws.