Human beings all over the world are vying with the elements in creating conditions threatening the survival of plants, animals and life-supporting resources, not to forget their own orderly living. Many of these conditions, mistakenly portrayed as problems, are the result of blunders by people at large as well as those in the ruling class framing policies and acting unmindful of the adverse consequences. The issue of climate change, debates on which in various forums have got clouded by other issues such as plastic menace, unabated spread of deadly viruses, inter-country trade wars, forest fires and so on. Indiscreet and excessive use of the multitude products of modern technology such as motorised transport, electronic goods, pest-control chemicals, synthetic fertilisers and so on being monumental blunders, not taking corrective steps, despite being clear about the devastation they are causing is a super-blunder that cannot be pardoned. The many problems attributed to the elements, namely earth tremors, floods, droughts, pestilence and so on are tackled as and when they bug the earth's life-forms, but the problems caused by blundering humanity triggers one to remark that the human species is the real problem.
The time-honoured structure of the family, the virtual miniature model of the society, has witnessed disfavour to a significant extent in the land's population, grossly upsetting the culture of sharing both difficulties of daily life and inputs of the members in overcoming the hardships. A society made up of families characterised by self-created disharmony cannot be expected in turn to contribute to a healthy country aiming at socio-economic stability and progress. India finds itself in a tight corner as it were right now.
