Finally a story:
I was a village boy, who lived in a village where there were many trees, small and large animals, birds…There were three large water bodies where migratory ducks (Tufted, Gadwalls, Pintails, Ferruginous etc) used to come every year on their winter vacation (although we didn’t know their English names). But there were also some muddy ponds that the migratory ducks didn’t like.
One of our village-related Uncle, who was a mentally divergent thinker, used to sit on the edge of one such pond for most of the day and throw earthen stones into the pond from time to time. He thought the pond, with the Kingfishers and Otters, was his property.
Whenever someone asked something, he would say, “I am making waves here, I am seeing what kind of waves can be generated here”. Sometimes on the way to our playground we used to ask him, “Hey Uncle! What kind of wave today?” Sometimes he would say something and sometimes he would not say anything.
But we could not stay in the village for long. We had to move to a city due to studies and some other reasons. But that was not a big city either. It was a small town in the Himalayan area of our state. After that… to a bigger town… then in different parts of our country…
but I could not go back to my village for a long time.
Many years later I went there to attend one of my niece’s (Village-related) wedding Ceremony.
That village is no more; it is now a full-fledged city, where there are almost no trees, no birds, no otters, no snakes, not even a single pond. Wandering around in a morning I stopped at the place where the Uncle’s pond was. Someone from inside me asked, 'Hey uncle! Why did you stop making the waves?” If you hadn’t stopped, we could have saved at least one pond, few otters, kingfishers. Did someone answer me then? “kaku (uncle)! now it’s your turn. Go and keep on throwing stones in other ponds. See whether any waves can be generated and what kinds of waves they are?”
No, I was not familiar with the Lorax story till yesterday but now I am. The Swomee-Swans, the humming fish, brown bar-ba-loot, gluppity-glup, trophic cascade- Somebody threw stones a decade back. Thanks a lot jasonhernandez74 for accurately pinpointing the thoughts. Such comments need to be read in depth.
Traffic Jam in Mount Everest, Win of “Plastic Wrappers/bottles/ non-recyclable waste” view of Sandakphu over the mesmerizing ‘Himalayan Sleeping Buddha” Range, disappearance of Mangroves and their habitats of the Sundarbans, rush of Picnickers, Eating, Shouting, Selfies, Bonfire- barbecue- DJ/Soundbox whole night by drunkard, week enders inside almost all the Forests/Bird areas, demand for more luxury, AC accommodation, Swimming Pool, Spa, Restaurant/Bar everywhere, loss of wildlife owing to electrocution, too many motorbikes with GoPros and running commentaries in each and every nature place, competition to become a champion/Expert, demand for Leather/Fur Products, Plastic everywhere- 100000 marine animals die every year, Wild Animals/Even Elephants die deep inside the forests owing to internal bleeding and organ failure by blockage of significant amount of plastic in the intestine…
Wherefrom all these are coming? Where is the origin? How they are being accumulated everywhere from the top of Mount Everest to the deep Jungles- to the Rivers/Seas/Oceans?
So I’ll ask my uncle again:
Have any waves been generated today? What kinds of waves they are?
Edit: My English and my ignorance.