Mother Nature Strikes Back

There have been some very disturbing climatic phenomena over the past 10 years. What is alarming now is that the weather is moving to the extreme level.

Blizzards in parts of Europe; tornados and hurricanes in North America; tsunami in south Asia, earthquakes in the Pacific; and the ice is melting at the Artic. What do all these portend?

You really don't need to have the IQ of a rocket scientist to realise that our Earth is on the brink of some major natural catastrophe. Without being an alarmist, I shall take the risk of predicting that another tsunami is well on the way, except that nobody knows where it is going to happen and how it is going to take place.

But it will take place and it will be soon - perhaps some time this year or even next month. The strange thing is that scientists seem to be pretty cool about the whole thing.

Mother Nature is obviously trying to tell us something. Clearly, man has been abusing the soil, the land and the air he breathes in. All of us who have studied geography or even a bit of biology to know that nothing stays the same after a living organism has been abused, misused and blatantly trampled upon.

Well, visualise the entire scenario on a global basis and you will know that Mother Earth has had enough of all that abuse.

What will be the dire consequences in the event of Mother Earth losing her temper? Nothing much by her standards but by man's standards, it means floods for all the low-lying regions around the world, severe tremors for some countries and irreparable structural damage in a number of others.

A very rough and conservative estimate of human casualties in a series of earthquakes measuring more than 8.9 on the open-ended Richter Scale would be about 3 to 5 million.

In a worst case scenario, we are talking about one billion. Hundreds of millions of years ago, Mother Earth also underwent some traumatic changes. The result was the disappearance of dinosaurs and other animals that simply couldn't fit in the new environment.

I believe we are rapidly careening down that road. Will our science and intelligence help us to avert or avoid such a major disaster? I am afraid not. Humans have the propensity of revisiting the mistakes of their past.

And what is the solution, if there is one? Yes, there is. Pray and lots of prayers.
Prayers are the final frontier for us. Without sounding like a lunatic, I would like to suggest that we get in touch with our inner self. Our inner self is spiritual in essence.

Being in touch with our core can alter the course of things. Mother Earth only opens to that which is powerful enough to reach her. God knows it but we humans don't because most of the time, we are into selective hearing.

This time in the epoch of earth-changing phenomena, I think a lot of people will heed this advice. I only hope it won't bee too late.

Of course, there will be those who will party on. But for the rest of us who are on a constant quest to seek that divine spark, we will find it.

Love and prayers are a powerful combination. Try them when you have nothing more to lose. Soon, it will come to that.