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Ecological Imbalance: Threat to Peace

Salehuddin Kaiser
***There must be a vigorous, comprehensive and continuous universal mass movement for peaceful process of human adjustment with the human environment leading to ecological balance.
Human Ecology Ik Ihc study of the structure and development of human communities and six Idles In terms of ihe processes by which human populations peacefully adapt to their environments, taking ac count of Ihe Icchwokigk-al *y* terns and patterns of axial or-gantaattam through which this adapitom Is affected
This nxww. Human Eculu*^ embodies the processes of adaption of human population through various mean* with ihc Environment, both inter nal and external In all Its aspects in an Integrated bal ancc Thal Is to say. imtxdaixe In Ecology occurs when this proa css of adapts m with emt ronntent is disturbed jeopardising pciuv
Peace is not the deadly calm and quielttudc of the graveyard. It is dynamic and progressive and must assure human happiness for all. Fai lor* of human peace arc to be weighed against the factors of human environment, both internal and external In all their aspects
A myriad objects, circum stances, as well as. physical, menial and psychokigicai factors which surround the btxiy and poyehe of man arc to gether considered a* the Total Human Environment. The ends and prospects of human happiness arc dependent on tranquillity, meaning peace., the total environment rcqulr ing to exist as an integrated and balanced entity. Environ me nt Is life Itself and pcScc must safeguard ihe well being and the very existence of this life
Intcrtcrritortally speakjng. threat of war among nitlions M threat lo peace. But tt is Im-possthk- lo he any war and the toss of peace In a world with totally Integrated and balanced ccolo^ Otstnlegration gives rise lo contradictions, the armed confrontation of which leads to war The only way to overcome world wide tension unrest and war-situation* would be through management of the total environment .ind the । concomitant ecological processes conceiving the World Without Border*. a* an integrated system, with lh<-guidance of an Environmental Integration Index, to be worked out sck-nttftcally. k-ad ing to continued stability and peace tn Imman societies everywhere.
There has been a theory of M A D. meaning Mutually As sured Destruction The pro-fessed assurance for dcslnn lion denies the common pro ' P>< llwtr basic needs, in ihc coniradtetory world with ah ject poverty in affluent pk-nty. This I* done lo deliberately prolong international tension, caused by the continuous arsenal-building with everyday piling-up of hugely expensive cver-modernising most lethal weapons, produced through competitive deployment* of tlx- rare scientific resources and lalentn. commissioned al public expense. World's biggest investment made I* in arms prod net ton for killing of mon by man. In contradistinction with the biggest investment rx ixied by Ihc world's majority being in kxxl for the mere survival of ihe human body. For securing pence, total disarms mcnl being the first prvrcqul site. pctu-e facing owner* of the planet. a* it* rightful k gl*-lators. must untie against all attempt* for subversion of peace. In this respect, there must be a vigorous, romprr-henstve and continuous universal mass movement for peace -ful process of human adjust men! with the human environment leading lo ecological balance.
The requirement for I hi* universal mass movement is universal mass education for human ecoloi^ to achieve Ihe ncgaliop of war. After the Second World War Emery Rew* in his monumental best-seller "Anatomy Of 1*cacc" established that two per ccnl of Hie money and effort spent for research and jiroduction of Ihc atomic bomb would be sufficient to rarry out an educational movement that would makc clcar to the people what the vtni* of war H and how peace can be attained tn human so rk-ty
Threat lo universal peace I* to be found when a particular stale or a group of Males is myopic in leading itself to think that It Is the best Judge to decide about the ecological poxes sc* to adjust rest of the world with the environment in it* various facet*, tn this respect there 1* the need for a revolution In mankind * thinking as busk a* the one tn Iroduccd by Copernicus wlx> first pointed out that the earth wa* not the centre of the uni verse
It has been rightly said by Professor Arnold J. Toynbee lliat the cull of sovereignty has become mankind's major religion. Its god demands human sacrifice
To repeal the stalcmcnl of Emery Rcvc*. the people of th< work! must understand the lone* driving them toward tbi ■ oming hnlncauat. Il has noth Ing whatever to do with Ihr ecokigk-al idea* of Communlsn or Capitalism. with Individual 1*m and Collectivism 11 Is the Inevitable eonfllet between non integrated sovereignties tn contact. Wc would put a Communist in the White House or establish the purest Jcffcr sonian democracy in Russian and Ihc situation would be tlie same Unk-s* an over all world government organlsalkm can be established In time, with the conviction of one-world ecology. by persuasion and consent no diplomatic magic will prevent the explosion Iso t the embittered world al ready learning II in Ihc hard wax al the evanescing iwcntl etl century?
Modern dav population ex pk■skin, specially tn tlic lesser technological societies of the world, definitely needing lo be conirollrd. Is universally made responsible lo have posed a threat creating ecokiglcui Im balance. The eminent re-scurrhcrs Ehrlich and Ehrlich liavc stauxl ihiM no gvologkal event In a billton years— x4 • be emergence of mighty mountain range*, nor Ilie emergence of entire Mihrontl nent*. nor the occurrence o( per Iodic glacial ages - lias r-d a threai lo Icrnsirlal romparabk to that of hu man OMT-popufalkm
The so-caiicd populatton pressure in to he judged lrm the hinlorlral perspective Tlic higher lechnotogiral mhM-iks started with an Ini I lai advan lagc. Before IndusIrtahsaUon their population was rcuMui ■My km Whatever *pc taculur their industrial productivity might have been, they would have been doomed to nilnatkin had they not found outlet* through immigration lo the New World. Australia. New Zealand and South Africa. This large-scale rfligratton hap pened through sheer pre-emption. Since Ihc beginning of Ihc nineteenth century these territories absorlxl sixty mil lion European*. European population excluding the USSR in creased by about 300 mlllkin during the year* 1650 I960. But txltv during the Tint dr.adr rd the fwrnlk-lh rrrv-Uwy many move Ihm 400 mg tom Enrapeano Ure mrtMdr Eu "‘^3^ w*r,T m-xk rn Eiwnpean etrihsMiSm wuIxhii ihe on Iki for llu-p-putoikm
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