Nature is poisoned because poisoning is profitable.
As long as:
- GDP measures destruction as growth
- Corporations are legally bound to maximize extraction
- Ecological damage is “externalized”
rehabilitation will always lose.
What must change:
- Treat ecological damage as *crime*, not cost
- Shift from growth economics to *maintenance economics*
- Reward restoration, not extraction
- Localize production to restore accountability
This is not idealism.
It is survival economics. YM
KR: Yesterday, I saw a film “DRAUPATI” WHICH DEALT ABOUT THE VILLAINY OF
FEW ADVOCATES, (UNQUALIFIED IS ANOTHER MATTER) JOINING HANDS WITH SUB
REGISTRARS, POLICE AND AGENTS, REGISTER AS MARRIED WITHOUT GIRL IN THE SRO
ISSUING CERTIFICATES, APART FROM MAKING COMPROMISE PHOTOS THROUGH
TECHNOLOGY, AND BLACK MAIL PARENTS FOR MONEY. AFTER HECTIC EFFORTS OF THE
DRAUPADI, ON 2 PLEAS MADE BY A GOOD ADVOCATE, COURT DECIDES THAT KEEPING
CAMERAS IS ORDERED BUT PRESENCE O FPARENTS IS DENIED AS NOT PRAGMATIC.
So, in an economically thriving world, protection of nature is
contributed only by a minor percentage by humans; while nature rewards and
retributes the evil doers, in the process of self-growth. Nature takes
care of the earth and specie to give life as a mother; we shall love our
mother and at the right time take care of her; but all the time she knows
how to take care of others and herself too and thus grows as a Banyan Tree
under which children remain protected and at times chided also. Economy is
the root of survival with equity; barter is fair only as long as all are
good which is unlikely. Common effort of money is earned only by
investments and such, needs good and bad aspects, analysed as such, later
only. When the splitting of the ATOM was discovered, it was to help finding
energy for the living; but no one knew it could crash the nation so badly.
But for that science progress through the survival economy cannot be
stopped. NATURE IS IMPORTANT BUT THAT IMPORTANCE ATTRIBUTED CANNOT MAKE
PEOPLE LIVE ONLY FOR ITS SUSTENANCE ALL THE TIME AS LIFE IS NOT FOR THAT
PURPOSE. Wealth of the nation is ARTHA. Only when the nation is wealthy,
life spreads its wings with betterments; and that is ECONOMY. Because the
economy scratches nature, efforts as possible alone can be rendered to
maintain the good nature; and all cannot hug the trees all days. At the
same time, GIVING AND RECEIVING, BUYING AND SELLING, EXCHANGING SURPLUS FOR
AN EQUITY ARE ALL NORMAL FOR ENHANCING THE WEALTH OF THE NATION OR ELSE
NATURE WILL NOT HIDE AND PART WITH GOLD, DIAM0NDS AND COKE FOR LIFE AND
WEALTH. IF TAKING THE GOLD IS GOOD, CUTTING THE TREE MIGHT ALSO BE
ESSENTIAL. While doing such works of necessity, bad elements with greed
will enter the scene to destroy the peace. We have to go by law; add more
productive nature; cherish the greenery; run along nature. Yet economy is
required even for that so we have to be wealthier to do good even to
nature.
Hence GDP is a measure of comparable wealth
Corporations must be monitored but violations must be punished
not only by forces but forces include the public also as a whistle blower
courageously and cannot say. “we will live and you will only die”
Damage in nature are two folded one by nature and another by
humans and cattle. Yes we have to safeguard where whatever efforts ONLY
WITH ADDED ECONOMY might be feasible. Yesterday in Republic TV Arbab was
crying for the great pit consuming the lives of vehicle riders; yes it is a
mystery; but though govt is responsible for the loss of lives, are they not
neighbors of the area too? They could have designed something to prevent
it, instead of pointing out the index finger.
Yes ecological damage could be treated as a crime; but if I cut off
your tree branch as a villain in your compound and tip off the authorities,
who shall or will be punished? Yourself as nature fell in your compound and
how will you disprove? LAW ALONE CANNOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM BUT ENFORCEMENT
BY EVERYBODY.
What is maintenance economics; survival needs? Neighbor need 20
chapatis for family and you need only 4; and as days pass by it becomes the
equations as in elevation of downtrodden, as corruption enters in there;
then equity is only what you have the neighbor also shall endure policy may
be enforced which is injustice. Economics is according to each need. So,
growth is important as maintenance is not an equity.
Rewards and Punishments are legality; inurement is that of need;
greed is the limitations; thus, sifting the crime for punishment might
involve human errors. Rewards too. Padma sree is praised as well as
criticized; which one is right?
Cement factories need certain raw materials so that it can be
established only in certain places; so, localization could cause the
imbalances, again asking for the disputes. Hence balance of power as nature
does human shall also reciprocate, as far as possible, and leave the rest
to nature is my thoughts.
K Rajaram IRS 7226
On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 at 08:15, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> --
> *Mar*This is the right question to ask *after* diagnosis. And it has to
> be answered without slogans, because the abyss you name is real.
>
> I’ll answer in layers—from *principle*, to *practice*, to *institution*,
> to *inner rehabilitation*—because nature cannot be healed only “out
> there.” The poisonings are physical, but their source is epistemic and
> emotional.
> ------------------------------
> 1. First principle: stop pretending nature is an object
>
> Rehabilitation cannot begin while nature is treated as:
>
> -
>
> a resource
> -
>
> a system to be optimized
> -
>
> a warehouse of “services”
>
> Nature can only recover when it is recognized again as a *subject*.
>
> This is not poetry. It is practical:
>
> -
>
> You do not poison what you recognize as alive and responsive.
> -
>
> You do not “externalize costs” onto something you feel yourself to
> belong to.
>
> *The first rehabilitation is perceptual.*
> Without this, every technical fix becomes another layer of damage.
> ------------------------------
> 2. Immediate physical rehabilitation: stop adding poison
>
> Before “repair,” there must be *cessation*.
>
> Nature cannot heal while toxins continue to accumulate.
>
> This means, bluntly:
>
> -
>
> Ending fossil-fuel combustion (not “reducing emissions” indefinitely)
> -
>
> Phasing out persistent chemicals (PFAS, pesticides, endocrine
> disruptors)
> -
>
> Stopping industrial agriculture that treats soil as substrate
> -
>
> Ending ocean dumping, mining runoff, and atmospheric aerosolization
>
> Nature has extraordinary *self-healing capacity* if poisoning stops.
> Many ecosystems rebound rapidly when pressure is removed.
>
> The lie we live under is that destruction is irreversible.
> Often, it is *ongoing*, not irreversible.
> ------------------------------
> 3. Soil, water, air: the three organs of the Earth
>
> Rehabilitation must focus on Earth’s functional organs, not abstractions.
> Soil
>
> -
>
> Regenerative agriculture, not “sustainable” monocultures
> -
>
> Restoring microbial life, fungi, and humus
> -
>
> Ending tillage that kills soil structure
> -
>
> Returning animal integration, not factory farming
>
> Healthy soil:
>
> -
>
> Sequesters carbon
> -
>
> Cleans water
> -
>
> Feeds life without chemicals
>
> Water
>
> -
>
> Restore wetlands (nature’s kidneys)
> -
>
> Free rivers from unnecessary dams
> -
>
> Stop industrial effluents at the source, not downstream
> -
>
> Protect aquifers from extraction and contamination
>
> Air
>
> -
>
> Eliminate combustion, not just offset it
> -
>
> Restore forests and grasslands as living lungs
> -
>
> Stop treating atmosphere as a dumping ground
>
> These are not futuristic ideas.
> They are *older than industrial civilization*.
> ------------------------------
> 4. Rewilding: let nature work
>
> One of the most radical and effective acts is *restraint*.
>
> Rewilding means:
>
> -
>
> Giving land back to self-organizing ecosystems
> -
>
> Allowing predators, complexity, and unpredictability
> -
>
> Accepting that humans are participants, not managers
>
> Where rewilding has occurred:
>
> -
>
> Biodiversity explodes
> -
>
> Soil regenerates
> -
>
> Water cycles stabilize
>
> Nature knows how to heal.
> What it needs is *space and time*, not supervision.
> ------------------------------
> 5. Economic rehabilitation: dismantle the poison incentive
>
> Nature is poisoned because poisoning is profitable.
>
> As long as:
>
> -
>
> GDP measures destruction as growth
> -
>
> Corporations are legally bound to maximize extraction
> -
>
> Ecological damage is “externalized”
>
> rehabilitation will always lose.
>
> What must change:
>
> -
>
> Treat ecological damage as *crime*, not cost
> -
>
> Shift from growth economics to *maintenance economics*
> -
>
> Reward restoration, not extraction
> -
>
> Localize production to restore accountability
>
> This is not idealism.
> It is survival economics.
> ------------------------------
> 6. Educational rehabilitation: untrain the violence
>
> No lasting healing is possible without transforming education.
>
> A rehabilitative education would:
>
> -
>
> Teach children to observe living systems before abstractions
> -
>
> Include direct, sustained contact with soil, animals, forests, water
> -
>
> Teach empathy as a skill, not a weakness
> -
>
> Integrate science with ethics, ecology, and philosophy
>
> A child who has learned to *listen to birds* will not design their
> extinction lightly.
> ------------------------------
> 7. Scientific rehabilitation: from domination to participation
>
> Science must abandon its role as interrogator and return as listener.
>
> That means:
>
> -
>
> Fewer invasive experiments, more field presence
> -
>
> Long-term observation over short-term extraction of data
> -
>
> Valuing indigenous and experiential knowledge
> -
>
> Accepting uncertainty and humility as strengths
>
> A science that listens will not poison what it studies.
> ------------------------------
> 8. Inner rehabilitation: healing the severed human
>
> This is the part most people avoid, but it is central.
>
> Nature is poisoned because humans are *internally fragmented*:
>
> -
>
> feeling split from thinking
> -
>
> body split from mind
> -
>
> self split from world
>
> Rehabilitation requires:
>
> -
>
> Relearning how to feel without immediately using
> -
>
> Silence, attention, grief
> -
>
> Allowing ourselves to mourn what has been lost
>
> Grief is not weakness.
> It is a *restorative force* that reconnects us.
> ------------------------------
> 9. The hard truth—and the hopeful one
>
> *Hard truth:*
> Not everything can be saved. Some damage is irreversible.
>
> *Hopeful truth:*
> Much more can recover than we are told—*if we stop now*.
>
> Nature does not ask for perfection.
> It asks for *cessation, humility, and time*.
> ------------------------------
> Final thought
>
> Rehabilitating nature is not a project.
> It is a *conversion*—from domination to belonging.
>
> When humans remember that they are not outside the biosphere but *organs
> within it*, rehabilitation will no longer feel like sacrifice.
>
> It will feel like *coming home*.
>
> If you wish next, we can:
>
> -
>
> Design a *“Free University” curriculum centered on ecological
> rehabilitation*
> -
>
> Explore *traditional cultures that successfully avoided this abyss*
> -
>
> Or examine *what humans must unlearn* before nature can heal
>
> Your question is not academic.
> It is the question of this century.
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