How can we contribute to a greener and healthier earth?
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Human activities for the past two three centuries especially after industrial revolutions has destroyed the earth’s atmosphere immensely. Deforestation and increased combustion of fuel has led to drastic climate changes all over the globe. Tree are scarce, and land and water pollution are threatening lives everywhere. If these changes are not reversed timely it will greatly damage the whole earth to an extent where it won’t be possible to restore it. To make our earth live and well again the first step we need to take is planting tress everywhere. The greener the earth is the healthier the environment will be. We also need to take care of the land pollution by properly disposing of our domestic and well as industrial waste. Production of plastic needs to be stopped completely to preserve our atmosphere. Fuel burning should be minimized. Also, we need to clean our oceans and seas as well from all the pollutants that have accumulated there threatening the sea creatures. Only by taking these steps can we make our earth more green and healthy.
Contributing to Greener and Healthier Earth
After God finished making earth, He took a long look at to see it. It was a perfect blue planet set in the infinite vast space. All around it were diamond-like stars. It was a Paradise of pristine beauty. Perfect blue sky reflecting in perfectly blue waters of the seas, rivers, lakes, etc.; tall green mountains with snow-capped peaks in the background whose tips shone with a golden hue from the setting sun. Lambs, deer, hares and kids used to frisk and frolic down the verdant valleys. Brooks, rills, rivers and streams flowed down the slopes merrily! There were green meadows, pastures and terraced fields in plenty! The pure blue sky with cotton-like cirrus flitting merrily high above looked so beautiful!
However, as man took control over this beautifully planet, gradually he turned into hell. The canker of industrialization had not converted the once heaven like towns and cities into hell. The sylvan beauty, for which now we go to hill stations, had not been replaced by factories and mills. The skyline dominated by tall pines had not been replaced by an ugly sight of stacks spewing toxic fumes!
The clear rills and brooks that were picnic spots 50 years ago have now been converted into drainage channels, carrying effluents to the rivers, which have become a bigger channels carrying the muck to the sea! The entire world is losing its beauty and purity. The mankind a silent witness to this ugly transformation is waiting for some angel to come down and do the cleaning, preserving, and pollution managing! That angel will never descend. The entire mankind will die as a result of its own misdeeds if it does not make ENVIRONMENT its FIRST PRIORITY!
The need of the hour is conserving and preserving the environmental beauty and purity of the surroundings. This task is quite Herculean. The only solution to the critical environmental issues is people’s mass participation in saving the environment. Mass forestation drive, and stopping the use of fossil fuels altogether can solve this problem.
There are other alternative fuels available. The government must act strictly. There should be a ban on fossil fuels. The government must create forest belt near every city or town. Toxic emissions of industries must be strictly regularized. Installation of toxic smoke and effluents treatment plants must be mandatory at every industrial unit. With these measures strictly and immediately implemented the environmental health will improve considerably. Unless the people come forward, this mission cannot be accomplished. They must minimize their carbon footprint. They must adopt eco-friendly ways of life. Government alone cannot do anything. People will have to act proactively. We must not forget that if we have to stand in the categories of advanced nations, we will have to make our country as clean and green as them.
So, let’s turn over a new leaf; let’s not make India stink and reek; let’s make it the heaven it used to be!
