World Environment Day - a bEginning

tHe World Environment Day !

I am beginning this blog - eCo-cOnscience: Vignettes on Earth - on this day on the themesong ecological conscience which as a conceptual logic on interdependent being originates in the ancient wisdom. Lost for many years till looming environmental crises rekindled our memories for that legacy of philosophical reality known to our wise ancestors as conscient co-evolution.

The Aborigines of Australia, for thousands of years aligned their lifestyles to the eco-philosophic leitmotive: It is the nature, which possesses us - we do not possess it. When the Aboriginal Tribal Elders tell us  "we have lived and kept the earth as it was on the First Day", their words clearly reminds me of the Native Amerindian eco-philosophic wisdom when they put it: "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from out Ancestors, we borrow it from our  Children."

Long before the urbanized global community woke up to the song of environmental-ecological wisdom in Stockholm, the ancient Indic heritage had enough insights and outlooks on the need for symbiotic connections on the physical, mental and conscious planes of existence in Nature. In the Prithvi Sukta in Atharva Veda, we hear the evocative 'Mata Bhumih Putroham Prithivyah' - Earth is my mother, I am her son!

In US, ecologist Aldo Leopold - in the words of the eco-conscient monk Thomas Merton - " brought into clear focus one of the most important moral discoveries of our time. This can be called the ecological conscience." The ecological conscience stressed on the realistic importance of having an awareness that our place as Homo species centered on being only an inter-dependent member in the biotic community. "The respect for life, the affirmation of all life, is basic to the ecological conscience," points out Thomas Merton.

So, on this World Environment Day - June 5-2011 - a day that reiterates the core message of the imperative need to have an ecological conscience. Ecotaoism tells us that 'any organism perpetuates its kind in association with the other life forms (or cultures), causing a holistic feedback response from all associated species within the ecosystem,' writes blogger Lawrence Evans in a tidy blogpiece on the concept of eco-symbiosis. As argued for by ecologist Paul Ehrlich and knowledge analyst Robert Ornstein, conscient co-evolution is a reality we as a species got to comprehend.

Considering the rate of destruction inflicted on our Earth, and also the valiant efforts of a number of eco-conscious people across the globe, I shall be writing/sharing information. knowledge, and wisdom on the topics of environment cum ecology in as many of its implications to our lives and other species that co-share livingry and space with us on this tiny blue-dot of a planet - the only Spaceship Earth as fondly reminded to us by the legendary comprehensivist Richard Buckminster Fuller and the personalities involved in the field. I call 'vignettes' for they will be short descriptive sketches on a wide gamut of topics and let me see how eco-literary could they be made too.

I shall also involve subjects of mathematical modelling, futuristic scenarios, computer projections and historical retrojections besides alternative paradigms and appropriate technologies and accommodative lifestyles.

Without history we would not have evolved for embedded memes that are part of our neural architecture are part of our biological evolution which implies that historical ideas would also be sharing their memetic space in this blogospheric niche. Besides, as and when I find certain things worth sharing from other online and offline sources as they are, with due credits at the bottom or within the text, I shall be sharing them too for the benefit of a larger reach. :-)