Need of Nature–Human Centric Peoples Movement(NHCPM)

The need for the above movement arises from the present basic world reality where humankind (as well as other bio-phenomena) has been challenged by a grave environmental threat, on the one hand, and an extremely serious social crisis, on the other. Such a life and death issue makes it incumbent upon us to build a peoples movement which stands for a realistic response to defuse the enviro-bio crisis and to rally and organise the people around this programme.

What is NHCPM
Nature–Human Centric Peoples Movement

The Nature-Human Centric Peoples Movement is a voluntary organisation, not dependent on any grant or financial help from the government or any other external or internal agency for its activities. It raises all the necessary funds from its members, sympathisers and rational and reasonable people in all walks of life.
For special initiatives, like running a major campaign or function, it collects donations from the public.

Present World Reality

Making the existing fundamental world reality as its starting-point, this programme holds that the human community today stands at the most serious crossroads of its history. Confronted with the most serious enviro-bio (including humankind) crisis, it has to decide which way to go. The crossing provides it only two choices—survival or extinction. There is no third wayout.
In other words the present world reality is that human society facing challange of global warming crisis (climate change) and dehumanisation of Human society.

Cause Of The Existing Enviro-Bio Crisis

1. The long-term cause of the existing enviro-bio crisis lies in the corporate system which aims at profit-maximisation or attaining the highest growth rate. Both the liberal and the Marxist versions accept the growth rate as the single criterion of judging social prosperity and progress. In their search for achieving the highest growth rate, both have been running havoc with the environmental and the human development factors. Since the attainment of money and power represents the maximisation of one’s (or self) interest, the whole world is now chasing after these two “life-extending elixirs.”

2. The short-term cause of the existing enviro-bio crisis rests with the corporate system’s operational agency (or the government). Oriented solely by self-perpetuation, the leaders of the national governments (based on the party system in every country) are mainly concerned with the amassing of their own wealth and the holding of an ever-lasting power, by fair means or foul, with no consideration to the mass interests or any enviro-bio issue. Their pet lifestyle is “to say one thing and do the other.” They always shed tears for the poor and the deprived, but at all times serve the rich and the dominant.

3. The sociological roots of the corporate system and its operational agency, firstly, reside in the one-sided philosophical understanding of the Adam Smithean and the Marxian development models (both of which have functioned as two standard development modes of the ongoing, but now retreating, nation-state system in various parts of the world). This one-sided understanding is that man constitutes the supreme phenomenon in the system of nature on our planet and even in the universe. Obviously, it projects people as the sole builder of human society and everything in it, disregarding the social truth that the change and development in human society takes place due to a 2-sided inter-action—that between nature and society, on the one hand, and within human society itself, on the other.

4. The second sociological mistake arises from the one-sided understanding of the Adam Smithean and Marxian development models about the human nature. The Adam Smithean economic model holds that humankind is selfish by nature. The Marxian economic theory takes a confusing stand on the question of human nature. Firstly, it emphasises that mankind is social by nature. The next moment it transfers the quality of being absolutely social to the industrial proletariat (who is, according to it, destined to be the liberator of humankind). And, finally, it passes the entire monopoly of the social characteristic on to the communist party which alone, in its view, has the capacity to bring a social transformation in human society.

5. In reality, however, humankind bears a 2-sided character: biological, on the one hand, and social, on the other. The biological aspect reflects the individual existence of mankind, while the social side denotes its social living, functioning and organising.

Perspective Of The Nature–Human Centric Peoples Movement

Viewing all matters from the environmental-human angle