Diary entry on a beautiful nature walk in pollution free covid 19 time
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Many times, I find myself thinking about the so-called beauty and miracle of nature. At least for my generation, this idea of a pure and harmonious environment seems like one of those fairy tales out of a children’s storybook. How can we even be blamed?
We have spent our childhood living in a city where walking on the streets seems like punishment because of the poor air quality and filthy surroundings.
The daily articles in newspapers about the rise in pollution levels, the excessive heat due to global warming; the culprits behind which were increasing CO2 emissions a fast deteriorating ecosystem, are ‘normal’ for us.
Repeated reading of articles on environmental degradation has almost no effect on us after a while as they are seen as the processes, and are seen as inevitable and irreversible. The stories recited by our grandparents about the days where hearing a honk in the vicinity was a rarity and breathing clean air was a basic human right and not a privilege, were not relatable to us - until now.