Where are we heading to with this uncontrolled consumption?

On a Sunday afternoon, as I was flipping through various channels on TV, a colourful sight on a particular channel caught my attention... I saw a group of American kids reveling themselves with the world’s biggest sandwich… each kid celebrating the moment and relishing every bit of it. There was so much food in front of them…. Cans of orange juice, cereals, vegetables, bread, meat, cheese,coffee etc etc. I was amazed to see that could all this do to their bodies…eat,burp,get bigger and finally collapse unable to take all the pressure..???

I moved on to another channel and there was this documentary on starvation in Somalia.. a lanky three year old kid ..poverty was oozing out of every bit of his limb..i could see his ribs through his skin and it was a heart-wrenching sight… I doubt if his waistline measured to 1/100th of the celebrated sandwich..
My heart skipped a beat for a minute…

How thoughtless can we get??
On the one hand, there are 1 billion people over-eating and putting stress on the whole environment....and on the other,there are 4 billion people starving. Given the theory of evolution the 1 billion rich will have to destroyed. Don’t our modern lifestyles and the so called quality of life marketed through the televisions go against the very grain of preservation and evolution of nature?

Going in this pace, in the next 20 years there will be a massive environmental crisis. And sheer common sense and logic can tell us who would have the last laugh! The 4 billion poor who can live under the hot sun, drink dirty water, live in houses surrounded by disease and muck – they become conditioned,rather immune to survive any ecological crisis. But think of the the 1 billion rich who live a well-cocooned life in air-conditioned houses with central heating,drink bottled water, eat lots of food and canned juice ...they will be like fish out of water. What would happen to them?

What a cruel joke of nature? As we insulate ourselves more and more against the vagaries of nature and live a cocooned life, the same nature enters ours home, drags us out of our houses, floods them and then leaves us to die!

Why else do you think there has been series of natural disasters across the world?. Nature is telling us – Listen,Dude, hide wherever you want, I am coming to get you! Just like I got you with Hurricane and Tsunami! Just like I invaded Bhuj, Haiti and the Andamans…and Guys, watch out!! Nature's fury is knocking at our doors!