question_answer 9)

We have not inherited this Earth from our fore-fathers. We have borrowed it from our children. Discuss  

Answer:

The Mother Earth is not our ancestral property. We cannot make undue claims on her. In our foolhardiness, we try to deplete the natural resources without realizing how it is going to affect our progeny. The fruits that we eat today are the products of a tree, which was not planted by us. We have to base our thought process on the similar line. What we sow today, our next generation will reap tomorrow. Our Earth is not our legacy. In the words of Margaret Thatcher, "No generation has a freehold on this Earth". All we have is a life tenancy with a full repairing lease. We should take care of Earth's resources as a borrowed thing. We neither can over use it nor can we neglect it. We have to return it to the next generation without any damage and, if possible, with further addition of its life-giving resources.