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| Tuesday, 19 October 2004 |
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For the greater glory of Lanka by H. M. Nemsiri Mutukumara In Sri Lanka, the media both - the electronic and the print - have emerged to take up the challenging task of greatly reducing, if not putting an end to the menacing use of polythene and plastic materials in our households. Innocent infants - nursery school children's bottle of sweet drink is the latest victim of the polythene menace. Many parents for convenience buy those drinks from street vendors without any sort of consideration to the health of their children. Newspapers print a slogan nowadays, as an advice to the people, particularly the parents. "Do not use polythene bags once only. Use it as much as possible the same old bag without using new bags each time. After use, burn and bury the old bag. Polythene bas made out of extremely harmful substances take a month of Sundays to decay." When our people in Sri Lanka - an economically developing country - has taken up the polythene use as a national issue to protect the people, from infants upwards, and their health, those who invented the use of polythenes and plastics in the West, notably, Britian, the United States of America and several countries in the European Continent are shedding crocodile tears over the harmful effects of the use of polythene materials. There is absolutely no doubt, the Ango-American cousins are now vigorously engaged in inventing a new material - with still greater venom - to replace the polythene. The Anglo-America block has gone into history as the pioneers of introducing family planning devices. For them, family planning is only birth control by artificial means by the indiscriminate use of pills and condoms. Firstly, these devices were issued or sold to married people. In those good old days of the early 1970s, those departmental stores in Colombo Fort, had set up special counters in the corner of the shop. A salesman would shyly hand over the desired merchandise to the equally sheepish customer. People's reluctance to use these stuff made the distributors and their foreign principals to organise seminars and workshops on Family Planning through a network of Non-Governmental organisations. This new venture had a remarkable success according to statistics of local Family Planning Organisation since the desired objective of spreading the message among the youth came to be a success. Today, due to the short-sightedness of our health authorities, community leaders, the birth control has gone up to HIV-AIDS syndrome. Where will it end? Similarly, the polythene use and the new inventions of the Anglo-American Cartel will end up in a colossal devastation of the country which our 2,600-old history has never seen before. Therefore, every citizen most devoutedly and zealously team up together with all like-minded men and women to thwart the machinations of manufacturers of such merchandise. They must support the print and the electronic media and encourage those journalists, writers, editors and such other authors. Organisations like the Jaycees, the Lions, the Rotarians, Associations, Congresses, Fellowships, Fronts and Foundations must initiate presentation of awards and prizes to those engaged in highlighting the issue. Besides the plus points, everybody must consider their bounden duty to bring to book any offender however high or mighty he or she may be or whichever the position to which he or she is incumbent of and condemn such individuals before the eyes of the public without any mercy. In this regard, the Bhikkhu Sangha, the Padres and Bishops through their various Nikayas and Diocease, from their dharmasana and pulpit on Poya Days and Sundays preach to the people the immediate necessity of protecting the country and her people. Sad to say, quite often, among the female, of their species seem to be aping western women and their rapacious instincts - such as organising 'fund-raising walks' to augment this, that or the other. The talk of the town is that, those walks, certainly end in fun-raising instead of fund raising, at all. Instead of such frivolous and unproductive exercises, our women folk should organise walks to highlight the dangers of the use of polythene materials and plastic merchandise. When our energetic and brave women giving the lead, all men are bound to join them without any hesitation in demonstrations everywhere across the nation for the greater glory of Lanka. |
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