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The next 100 or full 5000?

Today during writing my environmental science paper something dawned upon me. I left my pen and sat there quietly giving respect to my thoughts. It took man thousands of years to become civilized.Again thousands to build dynasties and kingdoms. Then few hundreds to build factories and then suddenly we find ourselves in a very awkward situation where we are able to calculate how many years our resources will last if we keep consuming at the present rate. Around 1830 we reached 1st billion ,and now in 2015 we grew to 7 billion. Is this planet only for us? So many species are living with us sharing our resources and we are just using everything for ourselves. I am not adverse to change and speed of change but shouldn't we stop or better say halt at some point and take a look around? our destination might have descended down the horizon.The speed with which we are moving ahead,leave aside the resources,leave aside the pollution, even leave aside the population , just think h...

My Simple Lion

My Simple Lion Raju, was the pet name of my simple lion Charles Richardson .Christened after the famed officer ,who liberated him from his mother’s arm, and left him alone to cherish his hard found freedom. Really? I don’t know. Who am I to question my commander. “He must be right.” “Am I too timid to reason? Or am I just like Him?” The liberated cub was brought to our camp- They tried to teach him habits, prevalent in the civilized world of ours. They planned, to make that child a gentleman. They chained him , to make their motives clear, They used hunter- (on my child) to instill fear. They barred the sun, from entering my child’s eyes. They stopped the air, from drying my child’s tears. Every night after 10, I sat near him. I tried removing his fear, I tried cloaking memories, of his mother so dear. One beautiful morning, when the officer’s daughter was playing near my cub, somehow, a drop of red blood app...