Can anybody tell me what is that one thing which we all have and which we get

only once in our lifetime? LIFE

A LIFE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET.
We are indebted to this planet because we are because of this planet only. We are
existing because this planet is in existence. The day trees, sky, earth, oceans will
disappear we will disappear in a millon part of a second.
I know we all know this, but are we doing anything for our EARTH, our
ENVIRONMENT or we simply say as we say it for so many other things, WHO
CARES!!!
(Introduction.) Good Morning everyone, today I Neelu walia , a student of M.ed
4th semester, usol department is going to talk about our very precious
Environment , the one and only !!!
Environment our surroundings comprising of living and non-living things which
provide conditions for the growth and development of us and various other species
and what we are giving it in return? None other than environmental pollution.
Pollution, the environmental pollution what is basically environmental
pollution? It is a situation where we ourselves polluting our lakes, rivers and seas
by wastewaters of our homes, factories and plants. Where the woods and forests
are lost for the sake of development. We are not on the path of developing, we are
on the path of imbalance. A imbalance in the name of development, on the cost of
our environment.
Before we go into the details. Lets go through some facts about our dear
environment!
We the human beings are responsible for the extinction of over 1 million
species. And a considerable number is under threat of extinction.
Pollution is one of the biggest global killers affecting over 100 million
people. It is comparable to dangerous diseases like Malaria and HIV.
Do you know, by the end of this century, around 1,50,000 people will die
due to heat related problems. Sounds interesting ???

 We are using 50% more natural resources than the earth can provide us.
Considering our total world population we need 1.5 earths.
Thousands of years from now we will get these rainforests. And every
passing second we are destroying them to the size of football ground. One
second and one football field sized rainforest is lost.
Not only that, in every one second one and half acres of forest is cut down.
Coming to the waste we throw in water which is mainly comprised of
plastics, is taking a shape of garbage island. And if we measure the size of
that garbage island floating in our oceans, rivers or lakes it will be the size of
India, Europe and Mexico combined together. Would you still like to throw
plastic or waste material in water?
71% of our earths surface is covered with water. So we have water
everywhere around us but still no water to drink. According to USAID, by
2025 one third people of earth will face chronic water shortages.
WHO said in nations like India, an developing nation every year over 3.2
million children below 5 years of age die because of polluted drinking water
and poor sanitation facilities. 75% of surface water is polluted by human and
agricultural waste.
40% of children of Africa and India are not having proper growth due to
unclean water.
An UN study says, the people of India have access to mobile phones but
dont have access to sanitation facilities, to be more specific it says no
toilets.
These above facts give a glimpse of the of our detiorating environmental
conditions. It is just a minor part of countless problems related to degradation of
environment. Our ecological system is interrelated and very complex which poses
a problem to foresee all the changes that will take place because of environmental
pollution and the complications which will definitely occur.
I would like to share a news from Times of India dated on 16 march 2016, WHO
said One in four deaths worldwide are due to environmental factors like air, water

and soil pollution, as well as unsafe roads and workplace stress. "If countries do
not take actions to make environments where people live and work healthy,
millions will continue to become ill and die too young," warned WHO chief
Margaret Chan in a statement.
The Environmental issues in India are huge. Whether it's the rapidly dropping
water tables, mass deforestation, land degradation or river contamination, India has
it all and on a massive scale.
Not only Indians and Indian newspapers talk about environmental pollution in
India, it is talked about everywhere. In September 2014 a Japanese person names
Stephen Hesse wrote an article in The Japan Times named India and its
incredible pollution. Indias population is 10 times of japan and 10 times larger
also and we have environmental problem much much bigger than japans.
The rapid growing industrialization is leading lots of environmental issues by its
uncontrolled polluted emission. Other reasons of pollutions in India are the
destruction of forests, emissions of vehicles, land degradation due to use of
poisonous insecticide for agriculture, shortage of natural resources, rampant
burning of wood fuel and many more. Pollution is the main reason to lead lots of
disease, health issues and long-term livelihood impact.
A whopping 65% of the land in India is degraded in some way, shape or form and
the endless government policies do little to curb the damage. In fact, there is no
shortage at all of government legislation protecting the environment but
unfortunately it is never enforced due to unashamed abuse of power, corruption
and lack of resources.
Article 48A of Act 1976 was added to the article on directive principles of state
policy. It declared:
The State shall endeavor to protect and improve the environment and to
safeguard the forests and wild life of the country. In a similar vein, Article 51A
(g) Fundamental Duties makes it incumbent upon every citizen to protect and
improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wildlife and to
have compassion for the living creatures.
In the end I would like to conclude by saying -

If mother earth were getting medical care, she would be in the emergency room in
critical condition on the brink of needing life support. It is essential to make the
public aware of the formidable consequences of the Environmental Degradation, if
not retorted and reformative measures undertaken would result in the extinction of
life. There is still time but experts give us only about a decade to reverse the tides.
This is our wake up call.

Our environment is in our hands. We destroy it or make it. Our choice.

Thank you

Neelu Walia