A Response to an article giving dire predictions in The Week, a South Indian Magazine.

Dear Mr. Mahesh,
Your article was a good read, but do you really follow what you preach, I don't think so and the human being is give the power to exploit the nature and its vast resources and if these resources are used in a judicious manner we would not have been in this present position. It is the crass consumerism and globalisation is to be blamed and the media is also one of the key player in the destruction of the earth's non-renewable resources, that is by reckless advertisement and glorifying the rich which is aped by the not so rich or, the what you call, the middle class.

Instead of giving dire predictions, go about doing something constructive to sustain life in this planet. Also it is in a way that the Mother Earth taking revenge for the wanton exploitation by man and for every action there is a equal opposite reaction. As said in the Upanishads for something new to happen the old has to be destroyed and this is applicable to the condition of the earth and its inhabitants but life goes on and it is a never ending process.

Regards,

K.G.Sastha Prakash