Question

What The role of the youth in environment protection?

Answer 1

Discarding computers, electrical appliances and rechargeable batteries can seriously harm the environment.Youth role is to implement recycling programs for used computers and electrical appliances. ... Youth have arole to play in environmental andconservation efforts that will improve livelihoods

Answer 2

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The world as we know it today is an unsustainable place. Pollution and poverty have thrown our planet into a downward spiral. We have truly made a mess of things. The only way to make the earth a better place for generations to come is to implement a more sustainable way of life.

In ecology this word describes biological systems that remain diverse and productive over a long period of time. Healthy wetlands and forests are prime examples of sustainable biological systems. For humans sustainability has economic, environmental and social dimensions. These are the three pillars of sustainability.

Economic issues - If a community does not have a flourishing economy, it will not be able to achieve sustainability over a long period of time. Environmental Issues - A community can be sustainable only when it takes care of its environment. Social issues - A community must address its social issues otherwise it will not be in a position to bestow the necessary attention to protect its environment. If these three pillars are not strong, the community is bound to collapse.

Our planet has plenty of natural resources but the demand for these resources is increasing by the hour. Sooner or later they will be exhausted. As Mahatma Gandhi once said "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs but not every man's greed." It is high time that we analyse our needs and decide what our true priorities are.

Nowadays flexibility and dynamism are more relevant than ever before. With stressful lives and decreasing amount of leisure time we want to go from one place to another as fast as possible. But this desire for saving time puts a major strain on the environment. What alternatives are available to us in terms of eco-frendly transport? And how can we reduce dependence on the finite resources, such as oil, in the transport sector? The solution lies in using bicyles and public transport.

Engaging youth in organised efforts to promote environmental sustainability has important implications for youngsters themselves as well as for their communities. Every third person you meet in an Indian city today is a youngster. In about seven years the median age of a person in India will be 29 years, making us the youngest nation in the world. Over the last two decades, India has firmly established itself in the world economy.

The Indian youth have both special concerns and special responsibilities in this context. A number of environmental risks and hazards will affect those who have to live for an extended period in the deteriorating environment bequeathed to them by the earlier generations. The nature, extent and severity of environmental problems vary tremendously from one part of the world to another but certain issues-most notably global warming and ozone layer depletion-are global problems and therefore of concern to everyone.

The role of youth in creating environmental awareness

In politics, youth, as a constituency, can make their influence felt by calling political leaders to account for the long term environmental consequences of their decisions. Environmental education is one way of equipping young people with necessary cognitive skills to recognise and withstand the pressure of commercial advertising. It is important to guide them on how to draw links between a given product, often attractively advertised, and its ecological impact. Advertisers are extremely skilled at disseminating messages suggesting that their products and activities are environmentally sound or even beneficial. This process is known as "green washing". It occurs when, for example an automobile company markets "green sports utility vehicles" or when a lumber firm logging in old-growth forests styles itself as "the tree-growing corporation".

Young people with a stake in the more distant future are especially well-placed to promote environmental awareness. Anti-ecological ways of thinking and behaving have not yet been fully ingrained in them so they can approach these issues with fresh ideas. At the same time much of the environmentally relevant information young people receive comes not from formal education but from the media. In principle, formal environmental education and the media could join in the larger process of social education, though the fact that the media are generally driven by other concerns can get in the way of such a synthesis. Even then the media can be a powerful tool for education.

t. A Modern Youthful India!!