In Greek
mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or
reborn. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by
arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Our mother, earth, can be visualized
as a giant phoenix.She is huge, she’s scary, but she’s threatened.
She’s patient, like any mother, but no mother would forgive a child who took everything from her, and then ditched her. She waited patiently for years, for her child to rethink, but the dawn of realization never came. She retaliated furiously, or rather, ferociously.
Earth is
constantly changing. But, with the development of human beings, she has been
exposed to very rash treatment. With more and more forests being cleared and
more and more constructions taking place, mother earth has been ripped off her
greenery and poisoned with ruins.Man has long been
aware that his world has a tendency to fall apart. Science says that someday, the sun will grow cold, and life on earth
will cease. But long before the sun grows cold, as a matter of
fact, the earth could die biologically. The rate
at which the resources are dying away, we can virtually see ‘the day’ coming.
In fact, the Indian Ocean Earthquake and tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina of
2005, the New Zealand earthquake of 2011, are all signs of the even greater
devastation to come. 
Like a phoenix changes forms, mother earth
might burn all the life on her, and then obtain a new form, which is more
pleasant and divine, because, for something good to begin, something bad must
end. The phoenix must burn to emerge.
We cannot hope for human life to continue on earth endlessly. We know that
there have been species washed out of the phase of the earth. Our time must be
nearing. We will have to pay for the
years of ignorance.
Now that we have endlessly depleted our natural resources and polluted our mother earth to every extent, it is time we wake up. We must understand that nothing can change what we’ve done to our planet and to ourselves. No magic will happen in one day. If anything can make earth a better place to live in, even in the years to come, it could only be our sustained effort.
We must realize what went wrong, take measures to recreate nature and reassure that the gifts of nature would be cherished till the last race of mankind perishes.
It is our duty to prepare mother earth for a more peaceful rebirth.
