Celebrate every day as Environment Day!!

One of the most important aspects of human development should be to emphasize the need to be fair and just to nature and its beings. We cannot ever be fully developed unless and until our lives are reconnected and is in balance, cooperation and in HARMONY with nature. Human development encompasses socio-economic development, emancipative cultural change, extension of civil rights. This can lead to selfish and ruthless human activities, our actions primarily being focussed on what we need, regardless of how much our environment can bear and tolerate, resulting in unsustainable development.

Earth being the only planet with life, a perfect composition of heat, air, water and soil. Nature doesn’t need people; it is us who need nature to thrive. Harmony with nature is what our sustainable goal should be. Otherwise we should be prepared for a tsunami of throwaway plastics in the sea or be prepared to step outside with oxygen cylinder at our back. The day by day increasing levels of pollution and excessive exploitation of resources is only worsening the issue.

Why do we celebrate World Environment Day? To show how much we think of environment, to set new goals, new targets that never get fulfilled, to make a pledge to save our environment only to forget every single word of it? Why do we do this? What’s the need? Why can’t we dedicate every single day to our environment, to nurture our mother earth, in being sensitive towards nature and its beings? Each and every day by making little changes in our lifestyle, we can contribute towards conservation of our environment. Of course there are laws, conventions, acts being made, summits and conferences being held to act towards protecting our environment, but ask yourself, what did you do today as a responsible citizen in making the environment clean. Did you take that one step towards making this world a better place to live in? If not, then do something!!! Merely complaining about the pollution, getting exhausted in the hot summer which is getting hotter by every passing year, reducing levels of groundwater, climate change, lack of resources is neither going to help you or anyone. Some ways through which you can save our planet, our earth, our environment every day:

• Turn waste/scraps into something useful.
• Reuse plastic bags, containers.
• Recycle electronics
• Conserve energy by turning off electrical appliances if not needed.
• Use public transportation, or walk for work
• Don’t throw trash here and there, and if you see it anywhere, pick it up and throw it in the dustbin.
• Use a reusable water bottle, preferable glass water bottle.
• Use the wastewater from RO purifier in cleaning house, washing cars and utensils.
• Use Air conditioners economically, and energy efficiently, so that it doesn’t release much CFC into the surroundings.
• Plant more and more trees.
• Go digital and avoid using papers as much as you can.
• Take shorter showers, use bucket instead of showers.

Be responsible.

Be a protector.

Be a nurturer.

Don’t wait for someone else to do that!!

Celebrate everyday as Environment Day!!

For a better tomorrow and better future!!

-Ananya