- Nitin Pratap Singh, Views are personal
Today, the philosophies of Chanakya and Sun Tzu face challenges from algorithms of digital warfare, and our focus has shifted from the quiet richness of a quality of life (QoL) to the digitally amplified pursuit of a 'standard' life on social platforms. Materialism, with its insatiable and accelerating appetite, is devouring human values at an alarming rate.
In an age where artificial intelligence, virtual, and augmented realities captivate us, the old stories of stone and steel, of wooden wheels and iron engines, feel like echoes from a bygone era.
In today's world, even history itself seems to revolve less around the lessons of events and more around arbitrary days and dates on a calendar.
On similar line, yesterday, the global community celebrated World Environment Day with great enthusiasm and high energy. Newspapers were filled with articles, poems, editorials, and reports from environmental conventions and plantation drives. While noble, these efforts often feel dwarfed by our relentless pursuit of power and resources, inflicting irreparable damage on our planet's limited and dwindling resources.
The sight of someone planting a sapling, captured perfectly for social media or a VR experience, is commendable upto a certain extent of PR projection and crisis of existence cum survival.
Yet, the real concern lies in the silence that follows: who tends to that sapling after the cameras are off, ensuring its survival to self-sustenance? This draws our attention that a single day's spotlight, whether on our environment or any endangered aspect of our world, cannot reverse years of neglect.
It’s time we moved beyond fleeting gestures and cultivated a consistent, daily commitment to our environment—a commitment as strong and pervasive as the one we display on World Environment Day. Our planet deserves more than a single day of attention, in fact it demands our constant care.
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