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Markendeya Yeddanapudi
📝 Profit or Loss
By YM Sarma (Edited Version)
When your income is my expenditure, there can be no real profit or loss. Incomes and expenditures, by nature, are equal and opposite. Business accounting, therefore, becomes an exercise in fantasy. To maintain this fantasy and convert unreality into accepted truth, we have created what are called autonomous business units.
The business unit—an entity rooted in social Darwinism—strives to get more than it gives to society. Essentially, it must function as a parasite on society. But if every business unit consistently makes a profit, it implies that collectively, they are looting nature. This large-scale exploitation of nature is rationalized and given legitimacy under the discipline we call Economics.
No business can truly show profit if the losses inflicted on nature and society are factored into its accounting. When such externalities are acknowledged, what we see is not profit, but a continuous flow of loss—especially to nature. In that accounting, humanity itself becomes a parasite on the Earth, and our so-called growth gets recorded as a cumulative deficit against the biosphere.
In free and healthy nature—where human economic systems have no role—every life form contributes positively simply by living. Each species becomes a limb of nature, educated continuously and instinctively by its environment, adjusting its way of life into a natural symbiosis. Together, they form what could be called the Garden of Eden.
Unfortunately, our modern educational systems, especially universities, fail to teach this ecological symbiosis that once governed all life. For hundreds of thousands of years, our rivers, waterfalls, lakes, and forests—brimming with diverse flora and fauna—thrived in this natural balance. Nature, in its freedom, created health and happiness, and artistic expression flourished as a natural rhythm connecting the troposphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. This symbiosis resulted in a continuous flow of profit in the form of joy and well-being for the entire biosphere.
Occasionally, nature disrupted this balance—not through human action, but through events like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and floods. These, however, were not acts of destruction, but nature’s own methods of cleansing and renewal, after which ecosystems flourished even more robustly. Life forms sensed these events in advance, adapting or retreating in harmony with the Earth’s signals.
Today, universities teach none of this. Instead, we offer diverse courses, all of which train students in the various ways of destroying nature—though we rarely frame it that way. The concept of total freedom for nature is not even acknowledged. Ecology, as a discipline, does not yet recognize the right of every life form to live healthily and happily.
We must recognize that the Industrial Revolution—which began in England between 1760 and 1830—marked the beginning of large-scale ecological destruction. Today, we suffer from techno-mania, a collective addiction that turns life into a slave of technology. This techno-logic is replacing the eco-logic of free nature. We are all techno-maniacs now, and the euphemism for this slow and steady destruction of nature is what we call profit.
Nature, once free and abundant, is now on its deathbed. It is the responsibility of our universities to halt this decline. The first step must be symbolic, yet radical: each university should create a ‘Free Nature Park’—untouched by human interference—as a beginning.
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