Sunday, April 27, 2008
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
(A list of the Gandhi-Satyagraha-King linked events appears on the below.)
In the face of global warming, a shrinking polar ice-cap and a widening ozone hole over the South Pole, the individual human may feel as lost as the polar bear looking for a way out of a maze ice floes in the disturbing yet beautiful photo by Subhankar Bannerjee.
In ‘The Way We Live Now' section of the New York Times Magazine last Sunday (April 20), Michael Pollan poses the question which we all must have asked ourselves: "Why Bother?"
There is no question that the direction of ‘civilization' is taking is towards changing this once green planet (really more blue than green, as three-fourths of it is ocean) into one-fourth yellow desert and three-quarters fishless sea, enveloped in gray smog.
To read the full article, click here...To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: 60th anniversary, climate change, Earth, global warming, heart, life, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Michael Pollan, New York, ozone hole, Satyagraha, shrinking, South pole, survival
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