World Environment Day is coming up, on the 5th of June. Probably just another date on the calendar for many of us! Do we realise, that if not for you and me, all the world would have been as green as Ireland, as close to heaven as Kashmir and as moderately hot and cool as the climate is supposed to be!
WE are the ones to be blamed for ever ounce of the destructed ozone layer, every mile of barren land, every wasted drop of water!
Every smoke cloud has each one of our names on it. Every tree cut has our memory in it. Every time somebody coughs at a traffic signal.. you or I can be the reason to it!
These things have become inevitable, for the fast life has reached the level of normalcy... every thing that limited to the big cities has now spread its roots all around the world!
There is nothing we did to prevent it, nothing we did to stop the use of Carbon emitting products, right at the time it all started!
But there is definitely something we can do to make up for all the loss, damage and uncontrolled wastage we have caused!
Carpool when ever possible, in fact.. use public transport or even better, pedal off the short distances instead of hitching a taxi or a rickshaw!
Sow seeds.. nurture plants.. that is probably the only rescue from the vicious trap of pollution!
Every time you see a tap running, think of how helpless you feel on a hot summer afternoon desperately looking for water!
Every time you use a plastic bag, imagine yourself trapped in one.. unable to breathe, succumbing, is the earth.. dying every moment a polythene is used! Switch to eco-friendly bags!
Turn off the a/c if your fan spins fast enough!
Recycle as much as waste as you can! From newspapers to electronic gadgets, everything we do, every step we take can either add a day or cut two from the life of The Earth.
The choice is ours... give or take, it'd affect nobody but us!
WE are the ones to be blamed for ever ounce of the destructed ozone layer, every mile of barren land, every wasted drop of water!
Every smoke cloud has each one of our names on it. Every tree cut has our memory in it. Every time somebody coughs at a traffic signal.. you or I can be the reason to it!
These things have become inevitable, for the fast life has reached the level of normalcy... every thing that limited to the big cities has now spread its roots all around the world!
There is nothing we did to prevent it, nothing we did to stop the use of Carbon emitting products, right at the time it all started!
But there is definitely something we can do to make up for all the loss, damage and uncontrolled wastage we have caused!
Carpool when ever possible, in fact.. use public transport or even better, pedal off the short distances instead of hitching a taxi or a rickshaw!
Sow seeds.. nurture plants.. that is probably the only rescue from the vicious trap of pollution!
Every time you see a tap running, think of how helpless you feel on a hot summer afternoon desperately looking for water!
Every time you use a plastic bag, imagine yourself trapped in one.. unable to breathe, succumbing, is the earth.. dying every moment a polythene is used! Switch to eco-friendly bags!
Turn off the a/c if your fan spins fast enough!
Recycle as much as waste as you can! From newspapers to electronic gadgets, everything we do, every step we take can either add a day or cut two from the life of The Earth.
The choice is ours... give or take, it'd affect nobody but us!
