Not me, but we!
- Sai Prabhanjan
- Jan 6, 2019
- 3 min read
Our biggest threat!
Somewhere in this planet,2050.
Prowling in the tainted atmosphere, Rob started searching for his daughter who went out for an evening walk but hadn't returned back to the home. His asthenic torso feared for the trace of his daughter but to his surprise he found her fainted on his farmland. With his frightened soul and trepidation, he took her immediately to the nearest hospital and met the doctor after all the test checkups get completed to get to know
what happened to her.
"Sorry to say this Rob! Your girl is in her last few days!"- doctor vocalized
With all his dreams getting shattered rob started shredding tears! "What turned her into this situation doctor?" rob raged.
Doctor: "Our yesterday's sins, made your little angle suffer today".
Rob: "Our?, What are you talking about?"
Doctor: "We neglected our mother (Earth), which paid off with a tumor into your little
angel. She is suffering from plastic cancer!".
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The above story might be fiction but it can be turned into a fate of many if the roots of plastic were not plucked out of this world.
The biggest threat to human survival is the belief that someone else will take care of this world. Many of us have no idea about the mistakes which we were doing and how they cost us in the future, Right now the biggest enemy for the human survival is plastic, not because of its applications but because of the reactions its going to make periodically with the life resources like food, water, soil etc.
Plastic started being radical with the food in kitchen utensils, it started contaminating the fertile soil with gypsum, which may soon result in life-threatening diseases.
Every problem takes its birth after the existence of its solution, Even plastic does have a solution, The solution can be achieved from 2 different ways
1) To stop usage of plastic (Which takes huge time until mankind finds an alternative).
2) To reduce the amount of usage. (Can be tried)
There will be endless debates and discussions running on this demon, but no one shows a way to overcome it.
Today I would like to break the wheel and suggest you a method which I do follow to minimize my plastic usage.
Make a list of every single plastic thing that you use on your daily needs from your toothbrush in the morning to the alarm clock at night.
Think about all the possible ways that you can shorten the list by eliminating the elements in it, through recycling or up-cycling etc.
Ex: If it is a Plastic chair, think about how creatively you can find a biological solution to it, either by using wood or metal from the dump and recycle them to avoid plastic.
Day by day be an enthusiast and try to eliminate as many as possible from the list.
After a short span of time, you can really observe the changes in your lifestyle.
Are you wondering how can this affect humankind?
It is quite simple if you imagine on a large scale, just multiple how many kgs of plastic you are avoiding * the number of citizens following it.
"The biggest threat to human survival is the belief that someone else will take care of this world."
It is never late to get realized and never early to start! So get determined and try to protect our mother earth from us.
Not me, But we are going to do this.
-- with love, DSP.

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