Funds being blocked for Greenpeace in India

As far as I understand, Greenpeace is doing Excellent work. It will be due to Organizations like these that Our Children can Hope for a Better Future and a Livable Planet. In India, its funds are being blocked. Very indirectly, of course.

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I had sent off a number of tweets on the subject, as under:

1. Only those who do not care about Ecology and Environment would object to the existence of an org like Greenpeace.

2. And this time, behold Who is objecting to Greenpeace? The policy makers. Those who makes crores just by a mere signature.

3. They say Greenpeace is against the Advancement of the Country. Destroy the Balance of Nature and call it Advancement?

4. Any org, including Greenpeace, has to apply for FCRA, submits yearly reps, is audited. WHAT need to stop funds unless wrongs there?

5. Curtailment of Freedom. A Free Voice and the Right even to Protest, all fast disappearing.

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Are We SURE the above will Not happen?

Perhaps the one good thing in this kind of a scene is that Little Red Riding Hood would NOT be distracted by the Wayside Flowers. There are None. …Image:

…945 Whales in a Year. It might not matter if all that Whale, its meat and other parts included, were Really Used. But is Not 95 % of that catch Wasted?

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And, to state one more, Greenpeace protests against nuclear proliferation. Is that a bad thing?

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Organizations like Greenpeace Must be supported, through funds, through our Efforts and Time, in India, and Everywhere.

03 Religion – and our Relationship with the Universe!

I start with the word UNIVERSE. For this post, this word shall mean all that is known and accepted as the Universe, Except for God and Man. These two shall be treated in separate posts. This is done for the sake of Convenience.

As We are into the subject of Relationships, We do not have to go too far into the Universe! Unless somebody wants to worship some star or something. But then that would take it into the realm of ‘god.’

We can afford to be Much Simpler than that. If We use the word ‘Nature’ instead of the universe, it becomes simpler still, so We shall do that.

Religion and the Universe would come down to whether We Believe in NURTURING NATURE, or are CARELESS about it, or even Destructive in our Behaviour. I do believe the Graphics make it quite Clear.

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Deforestation. Image from: labspace.open.ac.uk

And its effects; The picture of the Chimps does speak Volumes, I think.

Image from: www.telegraph.co.uk

Mankind is almost blindly going about Destroying its own habitat. Mankind chooses to forget that destroying the forests is Harmful Not Only to the Animal kingdom.

Forests getting destroyed. Graphic from: pic.twitter.com/XuyPpSUotk

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And two Examples about Cruelty to Animals.

Image: www.bbc.co.uk

I find this particularly Poignant because the Dog seems to be of a Good breed (Greyhound?), and it seems to belong to people who seem to be well off!

At the same time, Just How can We Condone what We see below? Cruelty is Cruelty; and Uncaringness is Uncaringness.

Image: www.salon.com

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Let us Thank God that there is Goodness too!

…As in the CHIPKO MOVEMENT, which has become Instrumental in Saving Senseless Destruction of Trees and the Forests. Chipko means ‘To Stick.’ We see in this picture some of the Pioneers of the movement, who ‘Stuck’ themselves to the Trees, Challenging the contractors to cut them down. Image from Wiki.

GREENPEACE is doing Great work in this regard. We have to be Grateful to them, and I do Express my Sincere Appreciation towards them here.

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How We Behave with Respect to Nature is the Outcome of our Beliefs. It is quite possible that We have not formulated them into a system, or even thought much about this. It would be good to pay attention to it and Change our Value Systems.

Having a Good Relationship with the Universe would make ‘Our’ Religion a Good one!

[This article is part of a series on Religion. To go to the Next one, please click here. …For the first one on this series, Please click here.]