Crows, Slugs and a River of Trash

Plastic bottles, metal cans, plastic bags, boxes, rests of food, wasted clothes… anything goes directly to the ground or to the river, as if it would be a natural process of recycling (maybe related with some analogy with Buddhism which I’m still trying to understand). But guess what, the things don’t go anywhere. At most they flow a couple of meters down the river to gather maybe for eternity (depending on degradability times) in some nice small pond. There they all show their beautiful colours for a while, as if we would be talking about Tibetan preying flags. The problem is that the colours don’t last so long, and the impacts on the river streams, soils, and anywhere else are immense, from visual to permanent contamination of waters, from smelly to poisoning to the native animals.

There’s not such a thing as garbage disposal facilities, collecting or waste treatment… or anything at all regarding waste care. I think they burn or bury some stuff sometimes.

Considering life priorities, well-being, and surviving instincts, of course I’m not naïf to the point that I would thing that people that are so worried about surviving every single day, would be worried about environmental issues… but at the same time, aren’t those behaviours becoming real life-threatening and worth about?

Contaminated water = diarrhoea, cholera, giardia, parasites
Contaminated soil = plant diseases, non-fertile soils, human contact diseases
Plastic waste = pets, cows, wild life eats them and get serious health problems or death

Etc, etc, etc, …

I guess I feel disappointed from the fact that I see Buddhism (and I’m not a follower) as something related with every single day life of Nature as a whole and I would expect that people that preach all along this religion would see and be concerned about this SHIT.
Maybe it’s just a different cultural issue… which can also be used as an excuse for many problems that occur in our days all around the globe, and affects every single living being. :)

Anyway, there is a small environmental centre which I think has some action around here… small but maybe a good way to start!

For sure this region, along with many others in India require an environmental action… otherwise it will not last longer.