Beware,the actions of man

MANKIND’s strident march towards industrialisation and mechanisation has created an imbalance to nature’s rigid balance.
Nature is stretched to the limit to provide an adequate waste disposable sink for the chemical by-products of mankind’s drive to improve, as he called it, his “standard of living”. He placed the “standard of living” of all other living creatures and, in due course, his own under tremendous and possibly irreversible stress and peril.
Today the world, including PNG, is coming under attack by natural calamities from a nature under stress. These stresses have their origin in the selfish efforts of the human race.
If we fish for adult fish as well as their babies and, in certain instances, their eggs, then the threat of extinction is brought very near indeed. If bee populations are threatened by the actions of men, the danger is equally high on plants which require bees’ help for pollination to occur in order to bear fruits.
Mankind certainly did not realise the danger he had placed himself and other far more innocent living things in until way too late. The result was massive global accumulation of the unwanted by-products or wastes of the mechanisation, industrialisation and globalisation processes.
Being a careful balancer, Nature tried its best to filtrate this manmade threat by distributing the wastes evenly around the world. By air or water it circulated excessive accumulation of wastes (pollution) throughout the world in the hope of containing the threat. For a time it held and unawares mankind carried on in his obscene destructive path. But there had to come a time when anature’s defences had to be breached.
Tears are appearing at the outer edges and moving in. The hole in the protective ozone layer was the first. Next, the melting of the polar ice caps. Global warming and rising of the sea levels is next.
The time for reckoning for our excesses has arrived, by the hand of fate, in our lifetime.
The climate-born calamity greets us in PNG and other South Pacific island countries far more closely than on continents where the landmasses are far too vast to suspect the incremental advances of the dangers of global warming.
At the ringing of the global warming alarm bells, somebody coined the magnificent expression “Think Globally, Act Locally”.
To what extent has this apt and, perhaps, prophetic warning been grasped by individuals, communities and governments everywhere, it is uncertain.