Today is World Earth Day.
The theme this year is Planet & Plastics.
This is not a day for somebody else outside or ‘others’.
You, Me and Everyone else can live ONLY on this planet.
We have nowhere else to live.
Hence it is for You, Me and Everyone else individually as well as collectively to keep our ‘home’, our beautiful planet Earth liveable, clean and available for ourselves and our future generations.
Our lives and well-being are deeply connected with nature and unless we wake up at least now and make amends, we will have conditions worse than just heat waves, floods, cyclones and typhoons.
What is it that makes humans stupid enough to exploit and destroy their very home and imagine that they are the most intelligent of all creatures? I find it difficult to fathom this misunderstanding.
Till our last breath on Earth, we must ….
- Understand and imbibe how we depend completely on soil, trees, air, water and the natural world for our survival.
- Treat ALL these resources – air, water, soil, trees, the forests, the entire living world around us – with utmost loving, respectful care.
5 Simple Action Steps, Wherever on Earth you are…
- Use water mindfully, and as carefully as possible. Reuse water where possible. Every time I need to wash vegetables, fruits and grains, I put a bucket under the tap and feed this water to some plants.
- Carry your own reusable bags with you and never accept plastic covers from any vendor whether in a mall or a local vegetable/fruit market. I keep foldable, reusable cloth bags in my vehicles and make sure my husband carries them in his car always.
- Recycle ALL plastic and recyclable items. Use the services of such service providers. Find such services close to you. I segregate waste and give out trash just once a month because I recycle or compost almost everything we use. One such provider – https://www.bintix.com/
- Carry your OWN water bottle from home wherever you go. This should become a HABIT. Whether you are attending a party or just going shopping, just making sure you drink from your own reusable bottle is going to make a great deal of difference to your plastic consumption. We ALWAYS carry our own water bottle whenever we step out of our house.
- ALL the organic waste needs to be composted. Simple small composting bins will take care of the composting process wherever we live. This compost can be used to grow our own tomatoes, basil or mint in small pots at home. Children learn to enjoy taking care of plants and learn a lot. EVERYTHING organic in my home is composted and used in our garden to grow our own vegetables and fruits.
What YOU DO Will Make A Difference!
Of what use is education and money if we do not have a planet to live on, if our kids have to struggle to breathe and get drinking water and our planet is destroyed?
We MUST make sure ALL children learn to make a habit of the 5 simple steps listed above.
If you think ‘someone else’ is going to save the planet for you so that you can live happily, you are terribly terribly mistaken.
