Do you know that plants are like humans? They interact with us and the environment. They talk to us and predict the future. These are some of clues I found in a very interesting non fiction book titled The Secret of Plants in the Environment. The author, Rishikesh Upadhyay, is an Assistant Professor of Plant Environmental Phisiology and Biochemistry at Haflong Government College, in the Indian State of Assam.
These are the early reasons who make me delighted to publish my new review about this helpful book about plants. Even though, at first glance, the book could be addressed to scholars, scientists or students, the entire work is, instead, for everybody, because plants have a key role in our planet and are, moreover, responsible of the terrestrial life.
The Secret of Plants in the Environment is an accurate scientific dissertation about the interactions that plants have in the environment where they live or are grown. The work is particularly focused how plants respond to stressful environmental conditions. Just to mention one of them: they suffer stress, like us, and endure, like us, harmful changes in their metabolism, up to the production of free radicals.
The book describes a detailed and informative list of stressful environmental man-made conditions and the way they affect the plants in our planet. Every explanation is enriched with additional studies, science data, quotes, figures and explanatory images that make every statement clearly reliable and proven. I found very interesting the explanations about the damage plants are suffering because of pollution and radiation.
They also adsorb heavy metals contained in polluted soil. The consequences of the toxic wastes are disastrous for them and for us. Heavy metal pollution causes cancer in humans. And in plants? I don’t want to answer this question, because the reply is in the book along with other shocking secrets you’ll discover after reading it.
This non-fiction work has not a plot, but it is as if it had, the explanations are clear, striking and push readers to think about the future of Earth. It is as if the author wanted to convey a heartfelt warning with this book.
Of course, that is an essay and the author is an awesome essayist, but I perceived a prophecy in his words, a call to stop every harmful activity against the life. Plants are the initial cell of life, they breath, drink and feed.
They produce oxygen to make us breath. Plants trigger chemical reactions which contribute to the water creation on the surface of our planet. Just currently, in this year of pandemic, this book brings us back to our responsibilities, to all we are not doing to save us.
Yes, there is a warning in the text, a probable prediction about what is about to happen… Indeed, through detailed information, the work seems to say that if we don’t quit doing evil, a dark future will overwhelm us in the vortex of our mistakes. The author is a prophet, for me, and his book is a prophetic essay to know things which perhaps have always gone unnoticed.
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