OUR INHERITTENCE

WE started this journey on the planet Earth 4.5 billion year ago. Even by cosmic scale this is a very long period. This epic endeavour of nature for creating higher intelligence has succeeded, despite the bombarding astoroids, comets and cosmic rays: despite the reversals of magnetic poles, despite the intemittent killing Ice-Ages. From premordial semi-living molecules, to bacteria, to reptiles, to vertebrates and to Homo-Sepians we have come a long way, even by cosmic standards. If this life cum intelligence chain should come to an end today, it cannot be repeated again.The Earth has lost its vigour of youth and cannot provide the dynamic environment required to regenerate this level of intelligence again. The sun also has only 4 to 5 billion years of life span left, before it becomes unstable and baloons into a Red-Giant. Alas today our ancestors who fought valiant battles with the intense-prolonged ice ages, with the draught induced desert-famine periods, heroically survived the earth innundating great floods, fouught and won against fierce animals and survived many many more difficult eons of climatic severity, are no more there to tell their story. We owe to them our adaptability and our intelligence. --- Yet at the very first step of our new journey that nature wants us to take on our own, we are proving ourselves incapable of safekeeping of our great heritage. All that has been passed down by our great ancestors, we are destroying in an instant, with our greed, irresponsibility and myopic sight. We have been unable to choose suitable leaders for running the machinery of human affairs on earth.
Let us come out of our shells, raise our voice, add our contribution individually, in a last ditch effort to save the life sustaining cocoon of our planet; or else resign ourselves to cataclysmic disaster galloping towards us. It is our children who will bear the brunt, for we will be blissfully gone by then, beyond the reach of remorse.