Save Mother Nature

The life of Human beings originated on the planet Earth .The “Mother Earth” is calling us for her protection. People have become selfish and they are killing the beautiful forests, damming the rivers and making more concrete walls without even realizing that by doing these activities, they are giving invitation to the termination of their own existence. Our earth is burning from both ends as the river beds are running dry. The plants and mammals are like us-living things. The biggest challenge that our earth is facing today is ‘global warming’, the glaciers are melting, sea level is rising, & the climate is changing on a fast pace. So, we must help to save them all.

Activities like composting can be of great help in recycling garbage into useful manures. Avoid excessive use of chemical fertilizers and synthetic nutrients. Natural manures are a better option for farms and gardens. Instead of dumping rotten vegetables, leftover food, eggshells, teabags, vegetable stalks and fruit rinds in the garbage bin, use them to make organic manure for your garden. Using non-native plants disrupts the ecological balance. Don’t use them just because they are exotic. Avoid using chemical pesticides for plants. Instead, turn to home remedies or other eco-friendly ways of maintaining our garden.

Water is a very important natural resource. The simplest ways to save water is to turn off the water taps after using it. Use of flushes and showers can lead to wastage of water. Use only as much water as necessary. Do not dump garbage down a storm drain and rivers. This pollutes water bodies. There are laws prohibiting us from doing this. But then it has to come from within the awareness and the awakening. Water is so precious; we can’t waste or pollute it.

There are so many electrical gadgets you must be using daily – the air conditioner, heater, refrigerator and oven among many more. Replace the air filters for your air conditioning unit once a month. Turn off the air conditioner when not in use. Refrigerators and water heaters consume a lot of power. So use them scrupulously. Switch off the lights and fans in our room before leaving it. Make sure the electrical appliances are not left on unless necessary when leaving the house. Make it a point to switch off the television set or music system after use. Don’t keep them on when there’s no one using them. Computer is one of the most used gadgets in the house. Do not keep it switched on when no one’s using it. Now weren’t these very simple ways of saving the environment?

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. . This is the best measure to save the environment. Make it a habit to reduce the things we need or we consume. Instead, use paper bags and cardboard containers. Even the practice of buying in bulk can help save a lot of packaging material, thus contributing to saving the environment. Buy products that can be reuse like paper to make paper articles and old clothes can donate to the needy. Purchase only things that we only need and eat only what we can. Let us do our share not to be part of the problem. Reuse all the things that can still be repaired or fixed. Recycle things to conserve our resources, collect old newspapers, books, magazines, bottles, and any other things that we could sell in junkyards. There is money in garbage and at the same time we’re doing our part in recycling process.

Read up and encourage those around us to read about the importance of saving nature. Put up posters or banners in the neighborhood, school, college or place of work. Organize an environmental awareness campaign. Get t-shirts or caps made with environmental awareness slogans written. These things help create an awakening in the masses about how grave environmental problems are and what we can do to solve them. Organize small activities like planting trees, cleaning an area in the locality, visiting an animal shelter or volunteer for an organization which works towards creating environmental awareness.

World Earth Day is celebrated all over the world annually on 22nd April. This time, it will be the 42nd anniversary of World Earth Day. Therefore, we should all stand together to save our mother earth. It is the responsibility of every person in checking the causes that affect the environmental disaster and play a positive role in improving it and these things have also got to be mentioned. One must realize the importance of a healthy environment and that it is for his/her own benefit to protect it and to take measures to make the world clean and green because as the proverb says “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment”.