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What ails NATURE? The answer can be found in the propensities of man, her most gifted, but alas, also her most prodigal boy. The entire world today may turn to be the oyster to modern man, with his faculties of imagination, inventiveness, and organization. But looks are deceptive. Man has harnessed science and technology as well as the new science of economics to bring about unprecedented prosperity, expansion, and amenities of life. All this, however, has come at a grievous cost to nature - in the anthropogenic maladies that people, inside our reckless quest for "progress" and comfort, have inflicted on the mother planet. Weather change and global warming; rampant exploitation of non-renewable fossil fuels belching out greenhouse gases; retreating glaciers; growing water, air, and sound pollution; sea acidification; ozone depletion; dwindling forests; imperiled biodiversity; and the growing menace of e-waste - all are stark symptoms of the relatively inexorable degradation that real human activities have wrought on the once-pristine environment of this living planet. We do not seem to study from the fearsome details of myriad disasters and the five great extinctions that got stricken the planet earth before. What is worse, we seem to be proceeding mindlessly toward our collective doom of the sixth extinction, this time intimidating to be triggered by human-induced environment change. Time is working away, but all continues to be not lost. Initiatives have been launched by conscientious world systems, conferences, and protocols to struggle the hydra-headed monster of environmental air pollution. What is needed is a broad-based general will - an "informed consent" by us, the mindful earthlings - to repair our precious blue planet. The symptoms, the diagnostics and the type of cure, are all offered in this level of engaging and detailed research by an ecologist who has embraced "Save the Earth" as his mission in life.
