[Mizza]

I thought it was pretty good!

Industrial society and its consequences have been a disaster for human kind. The rainforest and its inhabitants are under constant threat and not surprisingly, the chief culprit is Western culture and its values. Culture eats itself like a phoenix, if we allow it to take the upper hand. So, the dream to be a selfish, unthinking, care-free consumer who buys what is fashionable and only hopes for what will be useful tomorrow is just that a dream. The selfishness and the uselessness are inherent in our modern lifestyle; it is a self-imposed, social Darwinist vision of human existence.

The problem is rooted in the ever-increasing obsession with consumerism. Wherever and whenever we try to come up with a more, better, safer way of living, we fall prey to inbuilt greed that so often ruins our lives. It is not about the good of all or anything, but about the doing of only ourselves and living the best that we can. We treat every living being on this planet as if it is of no consequence, a mere means to our own selfish ends. At a more basic level, every individual living soul is our basic concern but all other matter is secondary.

Our relationship with Nature is pivotal to life itself. Nature is a solid financial asset in terms of every single drop of water that