A few days back I attended a seminar which was all about How can I be instrumental in changing my Environment. It was more about the Global Warming, Soil depletion and deforestation taking place. To be very honest, my personal belief is that this whole Global Warming thing is man made and the blame is being put on those who have very negligible contribution on it. Even the Forest Fires are just not happening randomly. But I fail to understand that why do some people want to destroy our planet in this manner.
Come may whatever little or big it is each one of our responsibility to make sure that we take care of our environment. People think that environment is only about the public places which needs to be kept clean, but it does not limit to that. It also includes what we use in our day to day life. The more plastic bottles we use, the more we are increasing plastic trash and pollution. Almost every product we use in our day to day life contributes in some or the other way in exhausting our natural resources and increasing the pollution level. Like cosmetics, wet wipes, tissue rolls, grocery bags, the tea bags which are so common and we do not realize, clothes we wear, mattress that we sleep on, shoes that we wear, utensils that we use.
At the same time we can not stop using them also because they have become essentials for us. We cannot go around without clothes or without footwear. But we can surely become mindful of our use. The seminar had all of this, of how we can live a minimalist life and try and reduce the usage of every commodity in our life, that also includes transport, where we can make more use of public transport then every time having a need to use our individual cars. That totally makes sense to me.
This year it is my target to only shop if it is a necessity and to not get into any unnecessary spendings and buying things. From the beginning of the year I have not shopped a single pair of cloth or footwear. This is very unlikely of me, but I do realize that I am buying unnecessary things and just hoarding it and after some time I discard it for some or the other reason.
We are all doing these kind of things. If we reduce our demand for all these things, the supply will also be in control and the less harm we will do to our environment. Besides planting trees, cleaning beaches, these are also the things that we need to take care off. Sadly even me who is mindful about nature, do these things and so many of us do it without much of realization.
So people who always keep thinking about how to be helpful in saving our environment, these are the little things that we can do. Try to be a minimalist as much as possible in all areas of life and that little together will make a big impact on our environment.
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