An environment is gifted by the nature to nourish the life on the earth.

Everything which we use to continue our lives comes under the environment
such as water, air, sunlight, land, plants, animals, forests and other natural
things. Our environment plays a very significant role in making possible the
existence of healthy life on the earth. However, our environment is getting worse
day by day because of the manmade technological advancement in the modern
era. Thus, environmental pollution has become the biggest problem we are
facing today.
Environmental pollution is affecting our daily lives negatively in various
aspects of life such as socially, physically, economically, emotionally and
intellectually. Contamination of the environment brings lots of diseases which
human being may suffer whole life. It is not a problem of community or city, it is
a worldwide problem which cannot be solved by the effort of one. If it is not
addressed properly, it may end the existence of life a day. Each and every
common citizen should involve in the environmental safety programme launched
by the government.
Ive always been a nature freak. I love being surrounded by the greenness
of earth and brownness of soil, accompanied by a few good books. But loving
nature and taking care of nature are two very different actions. Thanks to the
organising community for the events and activities held during the
Environmental Month in IPBA, Ive come to realise numerous things. For instance,
I now understand that for one to love nature, they just have to own the senses;
hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and etc. But for one to take care of it, they
have to go way deeper. They have to understand things. They have to DO
something.
Last month, IPBA had an Environmental Month. There were many events
and activities. Some of which were very interesting and rather eye opening. One
of them was the choir. They sang the song We Are the World by Michael
Jackson. The lyrics were painfully true. We are the world, I realised, we are the
ones who must do something and make a change before all is done for.
The next event is the treasure hunt. We were asked to look for hidden
things and do other fun activities. The treasure hunt, to me, is symbolising the
process of understanding how to take care of our environment. We have to go
through many stages and challenges in order to get where we want to be, and
that is the full understanding of the environment itself and reach out to it. The
next event was the fashion show. It was very interesting. The dresses and clothes
were all made out of used items like papers and plastics. It came to show how
creative were the participants with so little ingredients to preserve the
environment.
In such busy, crowded and advanced life we must take care of such types
of small bad habits on daily basis. It is true that only a small effort by everyone
can bring a major positive change towards our declining state of environment.
We should not use the natural resources in wrong ways for just our selfishness
and fulfil our destructive wishes. We should grow and develop science and
technologies for the betterment of our lives. We should try and cooperate with
one another, as occupants of Earth, to take good care of the environment and try
to bring its natural form back for the sake of the next generation.

By Melisa Sen (TESL C PPISMP)