The present irreparable loss imprudently being done against nature, such as, the exponential population growth, depletion of Ozone layer which is the most essential factor for protecting life on earth, drastic climate changes, exhausting of finite natural resources, deforestation, desertization, multifacet environmental and human pollution etc. are some of the well-known serious factors quickly leading earth's life to great dissolution. Nowadays we are conversant with a host of declarations to save nature and life on earth. It is a heartening thing that human beings are striving to come closer to nature. If we carefully examine, we would find that the abovementioned human approach is not on account of love with nature rather does it enhance self-aggrandizement. The said attitude takes the form of pity instead of sympathy.
Pity lacks reciprocity.
It is one way traffic not a reversible action. Pity is more like bestowing boon upon an intended object than reciprocity with a living being. We may have pity on someone but it would sound absurd to hope that he should also have pity on me in return. Moreover, if we further analyse, we observe that the said sympathetic attitude towards nature is, in fact, a pseudo-sympathy and not a real sympathy arising from our own beings. Big efforts to preserve and protect wild-life, forests, pastures and finite natural resources appear to be replete with the aims and objectives to simply store them so that we along with our future generation may utilize and exploit them.