Beth Adama

The core of the subject revolves around the concept of “anthropocentricism ecological crisis”.

Right from the evolution of human there were ecological values kept by, so that the recycling of resources provided an everlasting avenue for the biome to exist. But the modern theory of development by which the new generation is moving ahead has seen the disaster of the biome and entered into an era of no return in ecological crisis. The concept of recycling has given way for the modern thoughts of use and throw. Here the resources meets with the definite end even if the quantum available is any huge as ever be. The cyclic process has been given way for the linear philosophy of modern world.

The human species at the centre of the events is guiding the crisis in to a disaster. Even though we know the same we are taught by the modernity that there is no alternative.  As all other species knows to live in harmony with the nature the intelligent human has induced chaos in to the natural cosmos. And the resultant crisis has already eradicated many a species from the surface of this unique planet and many are on the way out. Even though there were no deserts on the surface of this earth the human in the name of development has created many a deserts and is still creating much more and eventually challenging the existence of human itself on the surface of this earth.  The irony is that still we consider this as the destiny of human. Still the modern human  thinks that this is the right way of living, by destroying the entire other species. We take up the natural process in the name of development in to human efforts and still name the same thing as development, as there is possibility of profit and increased GDP.  The concept of GDP has vitiated the foundation of development in the modernity. Likewise the concept of NPK theory has destroyed much of our farmlands. When the modern science is dealing with the life it has nothing, not even a primary idea of, what life is! Still it tries to treat the life and end up in creating more degenerative diseases. All these are discussed in the form of storytelling, so that the common man can discuss the concepts of biome from the point of view of nature and realise the truth. The dynamism of the life and its clandestine ways are not realised by the modernity. The eventual and instantaneous ecological crisis is thrusting upon us. The entire book is an effort to bring up the issues in the form of a fiction. That is the agenda under which the story line progresses. It further tries to expose the groups and ideologies which are responsible for such an imminent crisis.

The name of the book is suggested to be “Beth Adama” which is Hebrew means “daughter of the earth”. (It is in contrast to the concept of “Ben Adam” which means son of the human)

The entire book is written in a mythical background with a vintage language style, so that the concepts are understood by the common man in some plain language. The targeted readership is not the high ranking literary critiques, but the common man with the touch of life’s daily agony. The first chapter is a representative mythical dream which is told in the form of an allegory. The hawk leads a run on the dream. He is mythically the representative of the empires. How the empires are built upon the creation of hollow stories and the eventual exploitation of the commons (Chickens) are described in the first chapter. It is the representative mythical reflection of the imperial exploitation, which may be in the form of state or may be in the modern world the conglomerate.

In the second chapter, the story revolves around a model family of Samuel which was headed by a visionary for whom the science and technology are for the purpose of sustaining the biome and to keep the resources intact for the generations to come.

But the conflict of modernity to have a developed world within the given village is entering in to every family. The new modern educated youth are ever interested in the financial development, even by destroying the biome; the same is resisted by the visionaries. They are interested to kill the golden goose. But the crisis also enters into the family of village head. The village is deeply divided on the question. The concepts of modernity, development and sustenance are discussed in depth. Later the story enters into the questions of intergenerational as well as the intra generational equity.

The third chapter reveals the story of a traditional village where the thoughts of the people are high jacked by modernity and it’s agent development. At the end of a deeply divided conflict the modernity triumphs to go ahead with the development leaving the biome into lurch.  The advocate for the sustainable development, Mr. Samuel leaves the mantle to the hollers of development and goes to oblivion.

Then comes the uncontrolled dance of development by the modern group who unleashed the resources and captured from the local population. After all the development is for the local people apparently, where as they lose all their platforms. This is the foundation of fourth chapter.

Chapter five is the continuation of fourth chapter, but reveals the consequences in the social realm more explicitly.

In the sixth chapter, the imaginative lamentation of the solar fraternity is expounded. The lamenting song is the day dream of the girl Asha. It cries out upon the state of earth and its wards. The haughtiness of humanity upon the other species is disparaged.

In the seventh chapter the leader of the events, Asha, starts her public work in preserving the environment and the resistances and humiliations she was subjected to be explained. It shows the status and attitude of modern human towards the environment.

The subsequent chapter is the writing of Asha towards the humanity in declaring the needs of protecting the environment and the ways ahead.

The seventh chapter, the  last one, is the imaginative dream written with the vintage language style again to reveal the road ahead for the humanity.  It may preserve the nature and sustain or perish along with the degraded nature. There are only two ways ahead and nothing is alternative to preserving the nature. 

With these the fiction comes to an end.