I am your Mother Earth, a beautiful living planet of the Universe.

I have provided you food, shelter & with

almost everything. But my sons and daughters, what have you done?
Despite my unavoidable free services provided, you humans are not being able to pay off my kindness to
you. Rather you humans are being cruel to me by your selfish activities. Mahatma Gandhi said, Earth
provides enough to satisfy every mans needs, but not every mans greed.Every day humans produce
tons of degradable & non-degradable wastes & throw them anywhere recklessly. Smoke & harmful gases
from your homes, vehicles or industries are suffocating me. You are disposing dirty sewages, drainage &
even chemicals recklessly although you know that more than 7 billion humans along with all plants &
animals in this world rely on water for their lives. If you arent concentrated on saving those water
resources then in near future water can be as expensive as petroleum or one day people can die due to
thirst. Despite huge noise by your jumbo population itself, you use loudspeakers for your entertainment &
industries, airplanes or other noisy vehicles for your luxury. You destroy forests for agriculture &
settlement. You build huge buildings, roads & factories beyond my carrying capacity. Establishment of
nuclear reactors vastly affects environment & human lives. My sons and daughters, what have you done?
Harmful gases emitted by ACs, refrigerators , industries & vehicles are depleting ozone layer & increasing
our exposure to very harmful UV rays of sun leading you towards various skin diseases, eye cataract &
even cancer. Wastes like plastics & other non-degradable wastes like insecticides, pesticides, chemical
fertilizers etc. highly degrade soil quality & decrease agricultural products & kills soil microorganisms &
decomposers. Water pollution increases risk of water borne diseases like cholera, dysentery etc. and lead
& arsenic highly degrade our mental ability & causes extinction of many aquatic animals. Air pollution
causes air borne diseases like asthma in humans & animals and disturbs whole metabolism process in
plants. Noise pollution causes insomnia & heart diseases in humans. Deforestation is leading to natural
calamities like floods, soil erosion etc, temperature increase and changed rainfall distribution, drought,
loss of valuable biodiversity, decreased oxygen density etc. The burning issues in the world at present are
Climate Change & Greenhouse Effect.
Solutions of environmental problems are not impossible to superior creature humans if you are
committed. As a youth & global citizen, you too have the responsibilities to me, your Mother Earth. My first
role towards nature is to reduce my own carbon footprint via eco-friendly activities. Do not forget the 3R
principle (reduce, reuse & recycle) of non-degradable wastes. Organize environment sanitation programs
& afforestation programs in barren lands. You, youths can appeal the government to bring eco-friendly
development policies & proper planning of cities.
Make me sustainable, not only for todays generation but for the future generation. This is intergenerational responsibility. Thus, for my sustainability, promise me to fulfil your responsibilities towards
Mother Nature as a global citizen so as to protect me, your living planet from deterioration & to handover
clean & green planet to our future generations. Maybe your single efforts may seem small but if
thousands of youths can unite together towards nature conservation then one day our efforts will be a
drastic step to protect your motherland Earth from destruction.