Isn’t it preposterous to learn that neighbors are buying air?

Everything in this world comes with a cost. What we see today comes free will cost humanity priceless one day. Humans are simply irresistible. They devour on nature. We continue to corrupt everything of it. 

How precious is this Earth? In the darkest of the dark pit the Earth is too little a shiny tiny orb. Despite alleged possibility and speculation of living being in any other planet or its moon, there is no confirmed evidence of life viability, intimating that our very own planet Earth is the only available dwelling place of any living being possible. The earth boasts 8.7 million different species; let’s forget about the population in each species group — human only population clinches to 7.3 billions. Think about the resources they are gradually consuming for their joy, metabolism or shelter and think about the impurities every next moment they are accruing in this otherwise sacred place. Even thrice a decade back in Kathmandu, drinking a bottled mineral water was a far-fetched future idea. Now people shudder when they are made to think about drinking unsealed non-bottled water. In home, we have twenty liter jar and in travel packs we have single liter bottle of water. What was thence thought to be free should now be purchased in a variety of prices. There would be a time when cash cannot buy a drop of pure water; we can only hope that time would come not too soon.

Like water, like air. Due to intense industrialization and use of fossil fuels Chinese capital was forced to be shut down second time little more than a week after the first as the pollution in the atmosphere reaches alarming level in the month of December. It first came as a joke to many when a Canadian company started booming business by selling fresh air canisters to China.  Who believes when you are told somebody sold bottled air and customers are dying to buy it? It’s not a trend; it’s an obligation to buy healthy air now. Every other city’s fate is going to be like Beijing’s. Every burning that takes place around you is thickening your surround air. Meaning: we are not far away than having to buy bottles of fresh air just like we buy today those of water. Well you should now be thinking that you are having a privilege to be breathing in each jet of air every now and then. In some of the restaurants midway to the outskirts of Shanghai you are charged extra amount in your bill for using their fresh air indoors. So, our generation grows in this unique time when you pay for breathing air in a WIFI free eatery.

We are actually carelessly overusing the resources and later on our future generation will have to pay a heavy price for that. But most often, we don’t know our small action—we think, but will create storm halfway across the world. Like, lesser than a few would know that running the AC in your comfort room would be somehow faltering the ozone layer 18 miles above in the stratosphere; or, a grain wasted in the leftovers here could always have saved a famished child in Sierra Leone or Burundi.               

In the weirdest of imagination, it cannot be impossible for us in future to have to buy the space that you occupy in a month just like we pay monthly electricity bills. And in the urban area the skyscrapers will be so clustered that you would have to pay charges to go to the rooftop waiting turn of appointment to bask on the open sun.