Not exactly what nature designed of course, but then again nature designed that peculiar creature called the human being, the most insatiable denizen of the earth. We will not let the natural world move in its primordial cycles. Instead we carve it according to our particular fancy. Nothing wrong with that, let me assure you. It boils down, in my mind, to a question of magnitude and speed, and as long as we do not compromise the processes of the natural world beyond its regenerative capacity, we will still breathe clean air and our children will drink clean water.
Development is an interesting creature.
It is a veritable fountain of endless tales, some credible some tinged with far out fantasy. And Kukule Ganga, gathering the purest water distilled from our great rain forest, Sinharaja, and pouring these liquid favours into the Kalu Ganga, has of late been a lubricant that made ancient stories slip off the tongues of development planners, politicians, environmentalists, engineers and a variety of other professionals. Outside the verdant hills through which the river flows, the general public for the most part did not know of its existence. That is, until the protests hit the headlines of newspapers. We already knew what development in its rush to create infrastructure does to the environment.