THIS WE KNOW THE
EARTH DOES NOT BELONGS TO MAN, MAN BELONGS TO THE EARTH
Welcome to The Greens/Green Party INDIA. Likewise all Green Parties in the world, The
Green Party INDIA is working to make the hope of a more democratic,
safer, cleaner & peaceful world real. Our political goal is an India
where decisions are made by the people and not by a few super-rich individuals,
corrupted politicians, bureaucrats and families associated with them. Our
environmental goal is a sustainable world where nature and human society
co-exist in harmony.
India has a
strong Nature worship tradition. Our ancestors worshiped earth as the
mother and also they worshiped the rivers, mountains and forest which
patted and nourished man and his magnificent culture in their lap. One of
India’s most holy book The Mathsya Purana teaching us that
“Desa puthra samo drumah” (One tree is equal to ten sons).
But that magnificent and valuable culture is vanishing as a result
neglect by the intrusion of consumerism and blind urbanization which
intern marked the begins of complete disaster.
India has a lot
of state level and national level political parties. Unfortunately any
one of their have no environmental agenda. Ecological problems always
counted as silly matters by them. They paid blind eyes towards the plain
truth – The truth which they feared all the time and preferred to
hide and forget – that the “earth does not belongs to man,
man belongs to the earth” for their wealthy masters.
Environment is a complex of physical, chemical and biotic factors that
interact not only with the organism but also among themselves. No living
being can exist all by itself and man is only a component of the
biosphere and not its master. The survival of man depends on finding a
balance between man and nature.
With his
intellectual supremacy the man always indulges in plundering natural
resources. In doing so he often thoughtlessly interferes with nature,
disrupts and tampers balance of nature. Human greed and avarice together
have caused extensive clearing of forests, over exploitation of resources
and alarming environmental pollution. Apparently due to numerous
ecological malpractices and short-sighted greedy exploitation of
different ecological resources world has to face many serious ecological
problems such as Global warming, Industrial pollution, Energy crisis,
Flooding erosion, Desertification, Stalinization of soil, Agro-chemical
pollution, and Radioisotope accumulation.
The usable
inland water resources constituted a very minute fraction of the world
total water, it is important to make efficient use of available water and
at the same time prevent abuse of it. Recycling of waste water after due
treatment would relieve the water scarcity. The reclamation of sewage
water is important from many angles.
Industrial
activities and aviation transport are polluting the air and are disturbing
the balance of gases in the atmosphere causing a threat to the
environment and climate. Ozone depletion and increase in Greenhouse gases
are the two major environmental problems which have raised international
concern. Even the Earth's atmosphere is being restructured by this
profit-driven economy.
The
backbone of Indian economy is Agriculture still. The percentage of the
total population who depend on Agriculture is more than 70. The farmers
were considered as honorable men in pre privatization age in India. But
new they are insulted, ignored and compelled to suicide. That’s
result India is now suffering food scarcity.
Due
to unfair distribution of wealth and income the 40% of
population in India are below poverty line. The top 3% control over 80%
of wealth and property. The gape between rich and poor is increasing
rapidly due to blind privatization. Rich became super rich; commons were
pushed to poor houses and slums. The women’s contribution in
economy is not increase properly till now. Women empowerment programs are
only in paper yet. The rate of violence against women is increasing
rapidly. They always considered as second grade citizens by the male dominated society. The distribution of wealth in India is even more
unfair. Both of India's major political parties are dependent on few
super-rich individuals and associates. In fact, nearly all major
offices in the government, whether elected or appointed, are filled by
corrupted persons. What chance does the average person have for
exercising his or her democratic rights under these conditions! What
chance do nature and the environment have?
Economic
development and ecological conservation must go hand in hand for human
welfare. Moderate and discretely use of natural resources by maintaining
their quality and preserving them for future generations is very
important. The conservation activities include preservation, maintenance,
sustainable utilization, restoration, and recuperation of natural
environment. Conservation avoids unplanned development which goes against
ecological principles. Development without a concern for the environment
can only be anti-development, and it can go only at the cost of enormous
human sufferings.
Another important problem needing immediate solution is abuse of genetic
engineering. This destroying the entire environment and contaminate a
species diversity it has taken nature millions of years to evolve.
We must
learn a way of life that can be sustained, and develop more efficient
technologies that produce as little harmful waste as possible. To build a
sustainable society, we must learn ways not to rival nature but to
co-operate with it and live in harmony. We require a wholly new economic
order without destroying natural systems. Per suing life styles and economic
goals are rapidly destruct the environment. Our future can be peace and a
better world, or it can be endless conflict and ecological/economic
disaster. The difference between the two is whether or not we act
to make the difference. So we need to make changes in our personal
attitudes and practices and develop environment friendly life styles or
Green ethics. But there is one thing that we must understand. There
is no change to get back the lost time. So there is no question of delay.
If the
love towards nature dawns in one’s mind he makes himself to the
first step towards his humanity. Man who is deprived of nature love
becomes an assaulter. Obsessed with the idea of assault man becomes the
cause of wars and holocaust. It is only when undertaking a global
awareness revolution with regard to green values that man will realize
that he is only a part of the nature and not its master.
The
resources are gifts of nature to sustain life, but not for modern luxury.
Luxury means plundering of natural resources, wastage and pollution. It
is not compatible with the law of nature. Keep our actions within the
earth’s carrying capacity.
We oppose
all Physical, Chemical, Geochemical and Biological pollutions, over
consumption of natural resources like Water, Land, Soil, Minerals,
Forest, Wild life and Marine ecology. Also we oppose all types of
violence.
We are
always committed to Women’s Empowerment. We have reserved our 50%
of Local, State and National level working committee seats for
Women.
Life is a
rare and wondrous thing. There may be life of some sort on some of the
thousands of planets that orbit the distant stars. Yet, so far as we
positively know, only one our own earth is there living creatures. The earth
is populated by millions of different types of living creatures each has
its own way of living but all share the only known kind of structural and
chemical organization that means being alive.
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