The Earth Today (Nikhil Suresh)

“Earth is a clean and green planet!” say all our EVS
books. Unless we are talking about another planet named EARTH we are
just being ignorant of the condition our planet is currently in.
People! Wake up! We just have one planet and one life and we are
wasting both! The first 18 years of our life we take to “grow up”, the
next ten or so, to serve our needs and the rest to bring more money into our
pockets. Ultimately, we end up damaging our planet throughout our life time!

We take our planet and everything in it (including things which don’t
belong to us) for granted! Please do yourself a favour, come out of
your precious bubble and look around you. Then you will be able to see
how we have treated earth like one big dustbin. How many people
take it up as their duty to clean up our mess?

I am not going to list out the environmental issues and ways to solve
them! We get that everyday, be it the newspaper or television. Everyday
we get warnings about the bad state the world is in. Yet we choose to ignore it.

Look around you… Do you see the Earth of your dreams? Don’t you feel
like somebody punched you in the stomach when you see some responsible
citizens treat our roads their public restrooms? Well, let’s try and bring
back the earth our ancestors left us with. I am talking about the ages
before the war and nuclear weapons.

Thanks to us, Homo sapiens, we have a very huge hole in the ozone layer,
we reproduce too much too often that we are currently looking for
another planet to reproduce in and pollute.

For the people who loved Michael Jackson, did you know he was an active
member in more than 50 charity and environmental organizations? For
the people who don’t like him, “even he did so much”. I know in our busy schedule of endless tearjerkers and drama, of fighting for the silliest issues, our planet is the least of our
worries. Are we even doing anything about it? Veiled by indifference, are we even trying to look beyond the veil? We know our long list of problems
from racism to greed and sexual permissiveness and what not but how aware are we, about the planet that nourishes us? We leave it to the government and the other
dependable people to perform our duties. Why do we have to rely on the government to solve our
problems, when WE, yes WE are the government? Do we take pride over our nation?




Why can we not save our planet and bequeath a cleaner, greener Earth to the next generation? We have a beautiful planet and we ought to look after and take care of it.

What have I done you ask? I’ve tried to open your eyes to what’s out there. This is not something a single person can achieve, but humankind as a whole.