Fight for Our Environmental Future

 Fight for Our Environmental Future

“Humanity is now standing at a crossroads

We must now decide which path we want to take”

-Greta Thunberg

A teenager from Sweden called the voice of the planet leads a global youth movement and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her action started with a solitary strike outside Sweden’s Parliament last year and now look at what her movement has become. Students and workers all around the world demanding action on climate change. She is the next generating leader who make a remarkable change and make it count.

Greata is a 17-year-old girl who has inspired thousands maybe even millions of people to stand up for both themselves and the climate. She thought everything was going in the wrong direction and now she's become a really big role model for a lot of people. I look up to her a lot cause, I think it an amazing move towards the climate and she is doing amazing. It's time we actually stood up for the climate and did something instead of just sitting around.     

climate crisis is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced and yet it has been ignored for decades. she mentioned "the older people usually say that we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But we don't want to be hopeful, we want you to panic".

 

Charity begins at home, you start today, your neighbor starts tomorrow and the whole city starts doing this sooner than you realize, how about that? No, I can’t be that optimistic; but what’s the harm in throwing the idea around?

 Are you in it?

A baby step from all of us can make a sea change in the environment.
Let our leaders come out of environmental protection agreements, let them neglect the environment for the sake of cheap votes.
If you can help them getting voted out of power, then that will be your biggest contribution!
In a personal front, you don’t keep quiet either, do something today, whatever you can, and let’s make this planet a better one for our children.

We all pollute the environment we live in, I do, and your dog does too. It’s very much in our control to reduce this pollution.

Stop using Plastic. This may be very hard for many, I understand. If it’s not that hard for you, start using re-usable materials.

Use less electricity. There are various options to save on electricity, I can write an entire post about this. The easiest of the ways is to use a fan instead of an AC if you can. Air drying clothes, letting sunlight come in the winter, and blocking it in the summer are other easy options to try out at your home.

Recycle. Recycle often. Don’t just throw your old electronics and batteries to trash. Make use of local free recycling facilities. Dispose of your plastic containers as well by separating them from normal trash.

Use reusable shopping bags. Start using reusable bags. They are made of cloth and need cleaning once a week. We eliminated a lot of plastics from our life this way. You can do the same.

Buy fresh local produce. Whenever you have the option to buy from the farmer’s market or local grocers, give it a preference for buying local.

Save water. Sweetwater is a scarce resource and it’s being depleted at a greater pace than earth is replenishing it. There are various ways to save water in everyday use from fixing leaky outlets to adjusting the timers on sprinklers.

Go paperless, save the environment. Sure you can’t stop advertisement leaflets coming into your mailbox (shouldn’t there be an environmental law to ban this practice, or at least, be made it mandatory to use recycled paper?) but, you can control the statements, updates, and notices which you get from your financial institutions. Select paperless as the mode of communication. Mostly all of them support this. It’s high time that all govt. agencies implement this too.

Use ceramic cups. Instead of plastic, paper, or Styrofoam, the ceramic cups can be used over and over.  This reduces the impact on the environment and your budget.

Print less. Unless it’s necessary to print, refrain from doing so.  When you do have to print, consider printing on both sides of the paper.

Buy items with recycled materials. For example, you can get two types of coffee cups. One with fresh paper and one with recycled paper. You can identify by reading the label on the pack.

Consume less. This is for your financial good as well. Live simply, use your furniture and clothes until they can’t be used anymore. If possible

 Use clothes more than paper. 

I know, only a few of us practicing green living won’t change the environment around us. Still, I would like to wake up to a tomorrow where the earth is cleaner and the environment is safer to live. I dream on…