Tara Chand Bhagat
None is above ‘Nature’. All are subject to ‘Nature’. Nothing is as vast as ‘Nature’. Each and everything is the manifestation and form of ‘Nature’. Nothing is useless rather everything is useful to form principles of ‘Nature’. Everything goes on changing itself and transforming its existence constantly to be adopting the form of another. However a man may try to observe, assess, estimate its vastness, he is unable to go beyond its unlimited directions, limitless boundaries and infinite limitations. Man’s inventions about vastness of ‘Nature’ have become dwarf before his strature.It is my firm belief and conviction that to have knowledge about vastness of Nature is to have spiritual knowledge about the Supreme power Almighty God. I just want to make a mention of a few physical principles of the vastness of ‘Nature’. Physical existence of ‘Nature’ is mentioned as follows:1, Mountains: There are several series of mountains stretch over across the globe but I like to make a brief mention of a few famous series of the mountains. The fascinating and attractive beauties of snow-clad clifs of the Great Himalayas touch the core of hearts of everybody. Undoubtedly many mountaineers have conquered ‘The Mount Everest’ having the height of 29002 feet. They do have conquered. But what and how they imagined the vastness of Nature. The Great Himalayas stand like a sentry between India and Nepal, Tibet and China. The URAL mountains divide Russian areas between Asia and Europe. The PYRENEES mountains that divide France from Spain. The ROCKY mountains are standing along the Western side of Canada and the United States of America. The ANDES are standing between Argentina and Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The famous deserts of the World are described as under: The Kalahari desert is in Botswana and South Africa; The Sahara desert is in north Western Africa; and The Thar desert is in Rajasthan in India.
What role they play naturally. The winds carry sand from one place and deposit it another. Thus we find sand dunes in deserts constantly shifting their places. As sand laden winds strike against rocks, they cause considerable erosion. The Suez Canal is fed by the Sand laden winds from the SAHARA desert, so that it is necessary to dredge it clear now and then.
Plains and Valleys: Can a man imagine the benefits of the vastness of plains and valleys which play very constructive role in producing numberless varieties of crops upon which mankind continues to be sustaining their lives. This is how we can imagine the infinite nature of ‘Nature! ‘. Now waters in the form of ‘Nature’:71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and 29% of land.
There are three great Oceans namely the Pacific,the Atlantic and the Indian ,The Arctic Ocean is an extension of all the three great Oceans. The Pacific is the largest one. All the waters of the rivers of the world are drained into the oceans. The movement of water of these Oceans play an extraordinary role of ‘Nature. The life of blue world in the form of ‘ Nature’ is as living as the human beings on the land. This is how ‘Nature’ showcases its indescribable beauty. The Red Sea, The Black Sea, The Mediterranean sea are the glaring examples of The beauty of ‘Nature’ and its vastness. The Salinity of Ocean waters is also seen to be there.
Forests: 1/3rd of the global area is covered with the greenery of forests which play very important role to be great reservoirs of Oxygen for the sustenance of the lives of all living beings. It is only the planet Mother Earth where there is a possibility of life be it humans, the winged World, the blue world and other living plants and trees.
Earthquakes: Just Imagine the power of ‘Nature’ When earthquakes are experienced at 7.5° ritcher Scales. Mankind shivers with the extreme fear of death. When the earth’s crust suddenly vibrates or shakes we call it as earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by cooling and contractions of the earth’s interior by the interior getting molten due to removal of crust’s pressure as a result of erosion or by the steam generated when the water that perculates through the crust reaches internal hot rock resulting in volcanic activity. Earthquakes are occurred in almost every part of the world. The most active region is a belt surrounding in a Pacific region. About 70% of the earthquakes occur in this belt. The other important belt runs across Central Asia, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the West Indies.
When the deforestation on large scale is taking place for urbanization and other developmental works such as four lane roads and highways, railways, industrial plants, and the like. Nature feels imbalanced. With the result global warming and climate change are being experienced all over the world and the centuries old glaciers are melting due to rise in temperature more than normal resulting into unprecedented phenomenon becoming cold regions into warmer and warm regions into colder, causing heavy rains where there are normally no rains and there are flooded rains in those regions which normally remain dry, agricultural crops would get failed to be grown, to be fed growing population falling prey to extreme starvation, hunger, poverty, unemployment due to global warming and climate change, even sources of drinking water would be depleted over the most populous countries like India and China. Yet another example of global warming and climate change is being experienced in Jammu and Kashmir as its warm region Jammu has become colder than Kashmir region which is cold region getting warmer having maximum temperature of 9.7° C whereas Jammu’s maximum temperature was recorded as 8.5° C below normal, an official of the meteorological department said. The official said that Banihal town along the Jammu- Srinagar national highway recorded a maximum of 20.6°C, which is 10.3°C above normal. The picturesque of Bhaderwah town in Doda district a high of 16.2°C and low of 1.3°C while Batote recorded a maximum of 17.0°C and a minimum of 4.5°C. Such unprecedented phenomenon of global warming and climate change would be likely to be observed in the years to come.
Preventive measures by the developed, the developing countries need to be taken towards controlling the global warming and climate change by way of afforestation abundantly.
Besides deforestation, another greater cause of polluting the physical features of ‘nature’ like all the water bodies are disturbing its eco system as the disuses are more dangerous than uses. Even the celestial body of the beautiful moon is not spared polluted by the astronauts by leaving the materials of the satellites on the surface of the moon. Green house gases is another cause that also need to be controlled.
The pollution of the plastics’ wares is one of the greatest causes as is ever disturbing eco-system of ‘Nature’ as it is not biodegradable for years together whether its pollution is on land, or in water bodies. The fact is that the mankind as well as blue world are languishing with its pollution. As soon as possible, its large scale uses must be blanket banned otherwise its consequences would be harmful to all living beings on this beautiful planet.
How plastics harmful are!
I make it a point to be highlighted a news item published in the esteemed Daily Excelsior dates January 10, 2024 Wednesday at Page 14 extreme top that one-litre bottled water could contain about 2.4 lakh plastic pieces. Research study as follows: A litre of bottled water could contain about 2.4 lakh plastic pieces on average which is about 10 to 100 times greater than previous estimates that mainly concerned plastic of large sizes, according to a new study.
While microplastics range from a micrometer-a millionth of a metre-to 5 millimetres, nanoplastics are smaller than a micrometer and are measured in billionths of a metre. Researchers from Colombia analysed three popular brands of bottled water sold in the U. S., measuring plastic particles down to 100 nanometers in size.
I sum up my article with the following lines that let us take care of ‘Nature’ in such a manner as it is taking care for us. If ‘Nature’ is singularly saving or protecting the whole Universe, cannot we save ‘IT’ by Pluralism.
