Just a thought
I don’t
know why I finally decided to write this piece.
A couple of
days ago, my friends and I were travelling in a car, eating ice cream and one
of my friends threw the ice cream cup out of the window. I know this isn't a big
deal for a lot of people, its actually pretty normal for a lot of us. But this
made me realize that even educated people lack the basic... (I don’t know the
right word for this) sense of responsibility towards the environment.
I guess
some things are not learnt from books.
Our generation,
the new generation doesn’t really care about anything except for themselves.
They are too selfish and self centered to give a damn about anything or anybody
else. All they care about is what phone they use, taking selfies, posting
pictures on social media, getting likes
on social media, putting a lot ( and I mean a lot) of makeup... u can barely recognize
the person without it. Well, I can go on and on but I think you get the gist of
it. It’s basically all about the show.
People
don’t even know what kind of impact they have on the environment. Have you ever
wondered how much carbon footprint do we generate everyday? Well the answer is a lot. Everyday we use
vehicles, electricity, plastic etc. These things create a lot of pollution and
that comprises of our carbon footprint each day.
Did you
know that it takes about 13 tons of fresh water to manufacture 1 Smartphone? Well
it does and on an average we change our phones at least once a year, some
people change theirs once in a couple of months. Only 0.3% of freshwater is available
for use and we use 13 tons of that scarce amount of freshwater for
manufacturing 1 Smartphone which we discard in about a year of use.
My reason
for writing this article was to try and make people aware of the fact that everything
is not about showing off because you are showing off at the expense of the
planet. If things keep going this way, we will be ending up with an
uninhabitable planet with no food and no other resources to live on and
eventually we will perish.
If you think this kind of situation is far, well its not that far, we are already standing on the brink of an impending apocalypse.
If you think this kind of situation is far, well its not that far, we are already standing on the brink of an impending apocalypse.
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