Attitude_Express Love To The Nature

EXPRESS LOVE TO THE NATURE

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“The world is not given by your fathers, but borrowed from your children”- Wendell Berry (1934- ) 

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By Henry Kazula,

Author: Mtazamo Wako Ni Upi?

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Wendell Berry (1934- ), an environmental activist and American great novelist once said when speaking to the life of man as he must knows that, “the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children” so it ought to every mankind as Berry insisted; “to cherish the world and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.”

Love of Nature is a love of living; always, Nature speaks good to our life but we seems not to listen the desire and calling from Nature about our living.We have been silent for a long time to hear such a calling and keep on conducting things the way we find it’s good for us for our interest.It’s an era of "business as usual“...we haven’t expressing appreciation to what our "mother Nature“ is doing to us in controlling and saving our survival.

Expressing love to Nature it means; to appreciate the goodness of it, protecting it from replenishment and utilizing it effectively for economic good of the common while putting at the front page the issue of “sustainable development” –development that does not compromise the interest of environment, society and economic itself; all the three pillars should all not hamper with the future generation to have theirs.

Our future generation will not speak our goodness expressed to Nature unless we utilize resources in a sustainable manner. Although, other people predict that, the coming generation will have their means to address challenges in resource availability. That, notion should not be taken as guarantee to destroy and utilize resources in unsustainable manner.

The current situation of utilizing resources from nature is in line with what Hardin’s (1968) called "Tragedy of the commons“; in his words, “Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons” i.e. over fishing, overpopulation, killing of elephants for tusks. It is from this perspective that people don’t care for common resources exploited from Nature, since they are public goods and can equally shared- no one has an access to exclude the other from using that resource.

Linking the common utilization of resources with Nature, Julie A Kolankowski in her book “Love of Nature: In My Life” highlighted out that; “our world has been going through the greatest changes and 100 years ago Nature was balanced. Since then, we have doubled our population in less than 100 years; we have Global Warming with its destruction and pollution.” Also, Kolankowski insisted that, “new technology can now deliver food to distant places, at the cost of pollution and destruction of resources.” Now, we have destroyed that balance of Nature.

Currently, we have environmental dilemma, issues of air pollution, water pollution and all factors leading to climate changes are a result of believing and acting in freedom of the commons as Hardin visualize it since 1968. Ignoring individual role to save and protects common resources from Nature has made the situation more worse. The world is still singing the same song of “climate change” with unpleasing harmonious. 

Rising sea levels, drought, floods, storms, and greater uncertainty in agriculture have been highlighted by World Bank in 2009 to be the five main threat arising from climate change; whereby developing countries-the world’s poorest countries are at the higher risk.

Writing this section with pinch; is to remind, to express the feeling to you and other stakeholders, and raising awareness to mankind as we have utilized and keep on utilizing more from Nature beyond the limit without restoration for what is possible. That means we have not expressing love to Nature, which I consider it to be our “home” rather we have become so selfish to love ourselves, and expecting good in return from Nature. It was supposed to be adopted from American Idioms of “you scratch my back and I will scratch yours”- let’s scratch the Mother Nature so that can scratch our lives.

Again, as a point of reminding and warn ourselves, we have to utilize resources but we have to remember wise words from Berry in 1934 once said; “we have borrowed this world from our children”, our children owe the elders a lot from nature. So, we need to utilize resources with care, also “not lose our contact with Nature, because it is our mother Nature who gives us a richer life than can be lived in a concrete box room in a skyscraper.” said Kolankowski.

Taking individual responsibility to love the Nature, you can express it in action by teaching other people, starting with your children and family at large to appreciate the goodness of Nature; and above all, personally you have to practice what you are teaching. As Mahatma Gandhi used to say; “be the change you want to see in your world” you can be a source of love to the Nature and become a change agent.

Really, am telling you, when you take a wise step to express love to Nature and appreciate the goodness of it from the Creator, you will be rewarded and protected from disasters. Kolankowski, an environmentalist is making a call of action to preserve Nature so that it can preserve us. She said, “To preserve Nature is to preserve us.” So, express love and preserve Nature for the goodness of our life and the coming generation.

 Published by Jielimishe Kwanza