Collapse

Of late, I was reading this interesting book by Jared Diamond - Collapse. The author describes how societies around the world historically had chosen or choose to fail or succeed by adopting environmentally critical choices posed by mother nature. One of the factors he mentions, particularly comes to my mind - "massive application of toxic pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides in rich agricultural areas". Guntur district, the place where I come from, is perhaps one of the agriculturally most abusive regions on the environment. The heavy usage of pesticides including banned and adulterated ones, by farmers of commercial crops here has eradicated almost all the native birds like crows etc. I have noticed this in my recent visit, where we Hindus practice the ritual of feeding birds in memory of forefathers.