Nature striking back; tinkering with the environment turning deadly


We cannot have a day without getting reports of nature’s fury being unleashed on earth for our attacking Nature, that is in one way, the Brahman.

As a microcosm of the retaliation of Mother Earth for plundering it, today’s reports from Dubai, in the Gulf, and Nattakom, a village in Kottayam district of Kerala, would underscore the churning process going on in the Mighty Being, that is Nature.

Smog permeated the atmosphere of Dubai and vehicles speeding away collided against each other on Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway. The chain of collisions immobilised about 200 vehicles, mostly, cars. Many of the vehicles were engulfed in the fire that broke out. There were deaths in the ghastly accident. Thick mist and cold conditions prevented the authorities from taking immediate relief measures.

The same day a report appeared about a sheet of ice falling from the sky in the court-yard of a house in Nattakom village in Kottayam district of Kerala. It was the intervention of providence that the ice sheet did not fall on the inmates of the house. On hearing about the incident, a large number of people visited the place.

Why do such instances occur? Irregular rains, intolerable drought, water scarcity, environmental degradation, all are man-made. We have no qualms about it.

Times are quite near, when everything would be beyond our control. –O J