Our Ecological/ Environmental Destiny

Social-Cultural Ecologies: The environment, ecology and future(s) of our children(s) is not the recurring and active part of our personal and collective psyche, it pinches our nerves only if it directly affects our own children and our own kith and kin. We also fail to understand that the environment is not only the immediate natural surroundings, but it is the ‘most crucial’ life support system. We exist and flourish because of this ‘natural support system’ (Deep Ecology). Wangari Mathai a Kenyan social, political and environmental activist and a 2004 Nobel laureate stressed on the need for eco-restoration and she alluded to and attributed…