Elusive Consciousness

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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polluting the environment can be traced to these increased industrial activities and increase in population due to decrease in the death rates. Due to congestion of the cities, there results a cut throat competition among people for survival. The old value system based on simplicity, honesty and sincerity started getting replaced by complexity, consumerism, dishonesty, and unwanted domination of certain groups and countries over others. It has also resulted into a large scale corruption in many places in the world. The emphasis on economic development has become so much so that all other types of developments have been set aside. Thus women in many countries who used to work towards spiritual evolution, religious activities and family welfare, have all started working for economic development only. Also indices based on economic growth are dominating the people's mind that impact of economic development on environment is totally ignored.
Effectively one can say that final consequences of these activities have resulted in a very large increase in the entropy (disorder) of the environment and the society. Some examples are given below where one finds ideas of entropy increase in one way or the other.
(a). Mixing of hydrocarbons like petrol and diesel vapor with air and water etc. which were otherwise distinctly separate. (b). Spread of industrial chemicals and other pollutants in rivers and ponds. © Flow of millions of tons of fertile soil in the sea every year. ©. Adulteration of food and medicines and many industrial products. (d). Spread of electromagnetic pollutions in atmosphere due to very large increase in use of mobiles, internet and other electronic gadgets. (e). Decrease in orderliness in music and increase in noise. (f). Mixing of roles of men and women. (g). Increase in corruption and black money due to which unaccounted money is. diverted from main economy to areas and accounts which are not counted in GDP and so on.
Creation of the so called non-biological ordered systems (say concrete jungles, industries, machines which do not carry any form of life) in the name of economic development has basically led to increase of entropy in the biosphere. Such ordered systems can be called as “Non-biological ordered material systems" generating large entropy in the atmosphere. To understand the root cause of these problems, one has to closely examine the basic laws of science and find out whether this type of analysis can provide better alternatives and new directions of
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