Another year has gone by, and another anniversary gone begging. Yes, I am referring to ‘Earth Day’. It has been 40years since we have started off this ritual. The solo aim of this ritual is to spread the awareness of keeping earth as it is and helping citizens to preserve the nature for future generations.
Earth day was supposed to give a reflection of our standings vis-à-vis ecological balance. But, like so many, earth day has also become a mere ritual that we carry out without its essence. In other words, we just celebrate earth day as any other commercial-market made special days. I don’t see any pro-active steps towards safe guard of Mother Nature. If we continue like this, I am afraid; we will not exist to continue for long. I believe we should start every year with specific targets and review each year with our achievements and come up with ideas and motivation to improve the theme of saving Earth.
It is frighteningly remarkable to learn that, even though it has been millions of years since Earth’s formation, it has taken just 200 years for us, humans, to spoil the face of the earth, huh!! Talk about industrial revolution. Other day when I was speaking to my father he sordidly mentioned how hot it was there in India as though it is still April. It seems things have changed considerably in the last few years and we have reached to a point where mandatory events like, breathing itself would lead us closer to the dooms day.
And the mean time Ravi Shastri was screaming in the microphone (undermining the Microphone’s capability) to rub some excitement in spectators and he uttered carefully that IPL decided to green (Environmental Friendly) and proudly gave out the tip of the day to keep Earth for another day and suddenly stadium erupted with music blaring in. Of course there was never any effort to keep fireworks that they crack at the end of the match everyday for so long, away and the kind of nonsense in the name of entertainment they are bringing with is utter disgusting (let me save this garbage for another piece).
Earth is alarmingly standing at the verge of existence and if we don’t bring up a notch in our efforts to rescue it, we may end up in handing over a burning globe to our future generations.
