What Have They Done to this Fair Earth?

 As Jim Morrison sang:

What have they done to the earth, yeah?

What have they done to our fair sister?

Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her

Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn

And tied her with fences and dragged her down

Pine leaves on barbed wire at a friend's farm near Igatpuri

On many treks, most in fact, I find wire and construction rods in nature, dividing the land or marking "this is mine".

Mule train on the way to Ghangariya notice the orange wire

On pilgrimage routes, housing there's wire in different forms and colours, in snow bound areas in bound areas, bright orange so that presumably the wire can be seen against the snow. 

Cormorants on cables near Mumbai

The birds, animals and insects have grown used to this intrusion into their space and in some cases have adapted to these unusual perches.

Barn Swallow chicks on a wire near a house being constructed at Pangot

No matter how ecology is affected, the attitude of most humans is "Ecology is fine as a noble cause, but be sure it is not in my backyard".  

Bird on a electric cable in Chanfi

Witness the smartphones, flyovers and oodles of other progress, everyone knows that they are bad for nature but who will be the first to do away with them? 

A tree growing around barbed wire

Considering the recent Government ordinances in various countries on reining in consumption, one would think that such wires and "marks" of  advancement would be detrimental to nature.  

Barbed wire ends, but does it end?

But it seems business as usual for big corporates who make disposable goods so that you and I can have the "latest model." Impediments to this business causes inconvenience and delay, which you and I are not willing to countenance.

Construction bars bear mute testimony to the frantic pace at which "progress" is advancing

To quote Jim Morrison again:

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end

Let this not be the end