The post argues that humans depend on trees and other natural systems for oxygen, resources, and environmental stability. It warns that deforestation, urban expansion, and the loss of agricultural and natural land are weakening the conditions needed for human survival.
It also criticizes migration to cities, the decline of farming and skilled rural work, and government support for growth driven by jobs and investment. The post calls for sustainable development instead of continued environmental destruction.
Do trees need humans to survive, or do humans need trees to survive? Do we even realize the kind of devastation we’re creating for our future?
In 6th class science, we are all taught that through photosynthesis, trees produce oxygen, which helps us humans breathe and respire.
Trees give us humans not just oxygen, but also fruits, flowers, leaves, shade, beauty, and many other benefits we may not even know about.
Are we even realizing that?
Cutting trees means cutting oxygen, our lifeline!
Kailash Chandra
Seeing trees, agricultural fields, or greenery in general near our houses has become a rare phenomenon in our lives today. Are we realizing that?
A large part of the rural population migrates daily to nearby cities for their livelihood. It is not that they lack work in their villages, but they aspire to city life, unaware that life there may soon become hell.
Today’s younger generation doesn’t want to do farming or skill-based work like construction, manufacturing, repair, plumbing, technical work, or electrician jobs, even though these are in high demand in 2026. Instead, many are caught in a rat race, chasing something they’re not even sure about.
They are giving up their own homes, where they don’t have to pay rent and which they can live in for life, making life easier in their village, instead they’re moving into rented houses in the cities, where they end up paying nearly 30%–50% of their monthly income for rent, which is simply a waste of money and their financial freedom.
So, the large-scale migration eventually creates demand for everyone, whether it is the real estate industry or the employment sector needing more property to secure the land required for expansion. They begin destroying nature, such as natural ponds, lakes, agricultural fields, and forests, and start building on that land.
Even all the other governments, whether at the center or in the states, never take any action on this; instead, they encourage this toxic growth culture. Because they want to show during elections how much investment and how many jobs they have brought in, so they can win votes in the next election.
They (people) think that trees are lifeless, they can’t speak, they can’t defend themselves. But they are nature. They protect us. If they can protect us, they also has all the power to destroy us humans in a blink of an eye.
Be it big landslides in the mountains, or Tsunamis or Floods, or extreme heatwave and El-Nino effect, everything is interconnected.
Here’re some examples:
So it is better if we, as a society, take steps toward sustainable growth instead of rapid urban expansion and exploiting nature for our own benefit, because otherwise there will be no future for us humans to exist and survive at all.
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