By: Neerja Caprihan
Aren’t colors so fascinating, and so symbolic 1? It’s amazing how traditions and ceremonies are rooted in color associations across cultures. While some colors can have fairly standard connotations, reinforced by centuries of shared understanding, living beings can embrace colors and respond to them in different ways.
Colors can have a significant role to play in human psychology. This attribute makes them indispensable to a number of industries – art, design, entertainment, military, politics, education and several others. They remain a particularly powerful tool of quiet but effective expression.
When you think of colors, experience and conditioning invoke images of flowers, fruit, food, rainbows, and a variety of nature’s other offerings. One particular image that has always been awe-inspiring is the marine life, specifically the corals. Corals 2 continue to hold a mystical yet mesmerizing allure, due to their uncommon occurrence and difficult accessibility for the larger populace.
Given the climatic threats facing the world, the same corals are now losing their color 3, their essence and in turn, their existence. That’s one more in the tally of nature’s losses at the hands of humans. That the joy derived from this thing of beauty will be lost forever, is just one repercussion. Their bleaching and subsequent decline will invariably lead to a larger destruction of marine ecosystems. Given how nature functions best in a balanced state, other ecosystems could follow suit. The loss of color here is really a grim warning as well as a silent cry for help.
The solution, like everywhere else, lies in controlling human greed and apathy, taking care of nature and making sustainable choices in living. That is why we have a range of SRI portfolios, with some that are geared specifically towards a better planet, including one just for ocean life.
After all, coloring is a therapeutic hobby, one that has the healing touch. With the morning newspapers beginning to be more and more disturbing to read in recent times, one can do with less of black and white in life, and more of colors.
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FOOTNOTES AND SOURCES:
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_symbolism
2https://www.epa.gov/coral-reefs/basic-information-about-coral-reefs
3https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/worlds-corals-are-bleaching-heres-why-and-what-it-means-oceans-future
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