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The Light-Bringer

 Ignorance is bliss. Who hasn’t heard this quote, and who hasn’t felt it. Every human great and ordinary, rich and poor, the powerful and powerless have all been a prey to ignorance at some point in their life. The British Viceroys were initially ignorant towards popular discontentment in India, the Japanese were ignorant towards the possible response for Pearl Harbor, Alexander the Great was ignorant towards the tiredness of his troops during his campaign, and for a long time, we were ignorant thinking the earth was flat and the center of the universe.

There are many kinds of ignorance, ignorance towards knowledge, ignorance towards financial activities, ignorance of reality and so on and so forth. There are so many kinds of ignorance, one can dedicate their life researching about them, but at the end, all can be effectively summed up as the ignorance of truth. Truth is the dispeller of ignorance, the pill, bitter or sweet, to cure you of blindness to reality, to let you see clearly and act accordingly. But alas, most of us ignore it, for we are afraid of its bitter taste. Nothing of this can be made clearer than through our current management of climate change and pollution.

Climate change and pollution are probably the most widely discussed topics in today’s world alongside Artificial Intelligence and politics. But unlike AI, and more like politics, it just mostly ends in discussion, with very little action being taken to combat it. A certain kind of Apathy has entered our minds, where we are ready to adjust with this hazardous environment, creating air filters for homes and reducing waste (with very little degree of success), whereas our action should actually involve creating and maintaining a cleaner atmosphere and looking at viable alternatives to the current carbon fuel sources. Ignorance has again blinded us to the obvious, climate change is very real, and is changing the world, for the worse, very quickly.

Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, storm systems and floods have become more frequent than ever, Ozone holes continue to exist, and the ocean and wind currents have begun to change uncharacteristically are to name a few adverse effects of this vicious change. Notwithstanding this forest fires, smog, grey horizons and breathing problems have become everyday occurrences almost all over the world. Uncharacteristic weather, such as snow in equatorial regions and unending rains are the loudest indicators of the dire circumstances we are currently in, and even direr is the lack of alternatives. Ignorance has led us astray on this route this far, let us stop here and light the lamp of truth, which will dispel the shadows and show us the path.

 Human race has always had the ability the change almost instantaneously, we changed to have an ordered social structure, we changed to believe in science than in myths, we changed again to adapt to new technologies and now, we must change to better our world and to have a cleaner, greener future. Let us collectively work towards a better and brighter future, cleaner air, brighter horizons, a greener world and a kinder future. Let us not stick to inaction and work towards improvement, so that the future may judge us more kindly.

“The past has passed, and nothing can be done about it, but the future is yet in our control.” Let us use hope and truth for a better tomorrow.

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