Greener Me!!

It all started one morning when my better half suggested we needed a new shower curtain. Get them from the nearby dollar store was his suggestion , it’s both economical and practical that you get such stuff from the dollar store or the 49/99 ones, use them for some time & dispose them off and then get a new one. Sounds so easy!! However that was not what I wanted, why settle in for something cheap now and then keep changing it time and again. More than that what really mattered was the fact that not only are you spending repeatedly on the same stuff but more than that you are ‘Polluting’ the environment with all the waste stuff.

Many of you would think how does that matter, when so many people are already doing it, why not me? Now put the question other way round, when so many are already doing it why can’t I be a harbinger of change? We can’t keep pushing responsibilities on others, the environmental concerns which we now face is the result of this attitude.

Just some days back we celebrated mother’s day with a lot of joy and pride. The retailers were keener on gifting all the mothers, with various catalogues, mailers & vouchers the mail boxes were stuffed. The amount of paper wasted in all this effort was phenomenal, why instead of wasting so many resources, the companies could have very well reduced price on their merchandises; they would have had greater profit margins.

We address ‘Nature’ as Mother Nature and is this what we do with her? Dump all the waste in the landfills, mess up with the oceans and constantly endanger the flora and fauna? How long will we keep doing this? Somewhere we will have to pay a price of our negligence, be it in the form of earthquakes or the floods or the tsunamis. Year after year we celebrate Earth day on April 24^th, discuss how to reduce the pollution, sign up treaties at various summits, but eventually end up doing nothing on personal front. Till each one of us realizes our responsibilities towards making our planet greener no amount of treaties are good enough.

Most importantly we have to realize that we need to conserve our earth not only for ourselves but for our future generations, as the Native American proverb goes – “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”.

It’s high time we all turn Green…..