Friday, June 5, 2020

This E2E Model sucks


From Enlightenment to Endangerment, we serve!

What separates humankind and animal kingdom is usually a forest.

Forest maybe seen as many things by many:

A buffer zone
An ecosphere
Lungs of a land
A Money mine
A pristine soil to build that new public path, be it a road or railroad
Last resort of surviving nonhuman specie
And so on...

Enlightened populace over millions of years strove to strike a balance betkeepsthe need of development and preservation.

What started with a thriving biodiversity has been dwindling steadily over the last fifty years, now at an alarming rate.

Many specie have become extinct. Many more are on the endangered list. Many many more are on the waiting list...

We are a crazy kind. We drive them en mass close to extinction by spending a fortune (direct cost as well as hidden cost, say of a tree?). Then when a global body declares some of them as endangered specie, we spend another fortune to try and protect them, be it the tigers of Bengal or the Indian vultures.

We set up elaborate zoo, open seclusion or protected seclusion, feed them, protect them and rejoice each and every new birth.

Meanwhile, the space between a settlement and such a zoo keeps getting more and more populated.

Some of them grow livestock to supplement their livelihood (or may be the main thing for their livelihood).

When they lose some livestock near the zoo, they are so enraged, they keep poison laced food / country bombs / booby traps in their periphery to kill / mime the predators.

When this doesnt help stem the loss of more livestock, they walk right into the seclusion called zoo and feed the supposed perpetrators with poison laced food.

Media picks up the incident, kicks up a furore for a few weeks and then moves on with some other sensational happenings (we have a steady supply of them anyway, all the time, including 'breaking news' of a city choking to just 'see' an actress who is about to open a showroom as special guest there!)

Another place, another hungry animal, another sound and light storm by media and then another showroom opening some place else...

By doing these regularly, consistently and systematically, we the larger populace keep alive the act of endangerment we practice so unflinchingly.

Tigers

Lions

Bees

Elephants

Dragon flies

Peacocks

Wild boars

Sparrows

Vultures
...

The list is endless.

Since we are all tech savvy and live our lives largely on the internet, I use this anology to sum up this article:

In the extremely connected worldwide web, if any device that keep the network intact fails, the redundancy we built into the network shall step in as fallback to continue giving us the seamless experience.

Electricity drives this web, nonstop.

Natural web of life doesn't work like that.

There are no redundancies built in.

If a device fails, it falls off and takes down a big chunk, may even the whole web.

Now, consider the animals and birds I listed above, as the key movers of 'life' in the web.

When any one of them fails, humanity as we know and as we practice, will be knocked off; sooner or later.

This web, is powered by trees. Trees don't just keep us alive. They keep this Natural web also alive.

What are we gonna do about?

Something gotta give!

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