Pleasant
events indicate resource utilization. Unpleasant events indicate
resource waste.
Eco-Logic
is a powerful tool to discover nature. I have used it successfully
and wish to share it with you.
Nature
is logically designed and we can harness it better by understanding
this design.
The
most important lesson that will be useful is:
It
is necessary to start applying this lesson in everyday life and
identify leakages of our valuable resources...
Let
me expand a bit.
Glass
pieces on the road hurt us. This unpleasant event indicates waste
of a resource. The same glass in a recycling bin is a path towards
resource recovery.
Black
and toxic exhaust from our vehicles implies waste of fuel.
Building
a tall chimney for a furnace might disperse the pollutants but
this is only the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) approach.
The pollutants come back to us through toxic rain.
Indicators
of optimum resource utilization are silent or pleasant - silent
when the resource utilization is at its best, and pleasant when
there is a need to warn us of a possible waste which was prevented
through timely action. A pleasant event, thus, is an award for
the timely action.
Indicators
of waste are unpleasant. Color is towards black or red. Smell
is unpleasant. Taste is unpleasant. Most poisons are bitter and
we are sensitive to this taste. Poison production in nature is
a warning that resources are being wasted. It is a final warning
- one that may result in death.
Nature
is logically designed and even modern man cannot do a better job.
We
add mercaptans (to give a repulsive garbage-like smell) to our
cooking gas (which has no smell of it's own) to serve as a leakage
warning signal.
This
Eco-Logic has greatly helped me gain a wealth of knowledge that
is not present in the latest literature. It is a powerful way
to read nature.
Bright
colored insects, fungi, frogs, snakes, fish, and so on indicate
waste of resources. These creatures have toxin-like substances
and could be eaten only by specific predators that have the machinery
to manage them.
In
addition to color, smell and taste, another attribute that appeals
to our senses is texture. Rough texture is unpleasant and signals
waste of resources.
There
is one more sensory organ -- the ear.
The
absence of sound is peaceful. Consonance and silence indicate
control, while dissonance acts as a fire alarm; one that cannot
be taken musically.
While
one can be proud about having mango trees with cuckoos singing
sweetly in the spring, it is not so about the crows which signal
us of wasted resources.
The
popping sounds one hears when corn is popped come from mini-explosions
due to nitrates present in the specific variety of corn. Nitrates
are used in explosives for the same purpose.
The
popping explosions warn us about the nitrates. These are bad for
our health. Popping removes most of the nitrates.
Our
conventional practices are eco-logical, too!
Dr. Uday S. Bhawalkar
