What am doing to help the environment?

 All along, it has been reports of people and their impact on the environment. However, this thematic report will give a different narrative. It’s about me and what I do to protect the environment and mother earth at large. Well, this gives me a chance to reflect on my actions. Whether good or bad at the end of the day I will want what I do to positively affect my environment. This has always called for constant examination and rectification of my actions where necessary.

Mother earth has no capability of taking care of itself. It depends on us and more precisely our actions for that. What you do can harm it but it’s you to feel the impact. Let’s say I litter the environment. Yes, the area will be unpleasant to live in but the main question is, unpleasant to who? Obviously, to me. So let’s think about the following before getting to know what I do;

 Do you remember how you treated litters while still young? Or the number of trees you have planted to date? Or even how you felt when somebody littered the environment? If you do, do you still have the same attitude and has your attitude improved to the better?

Okay, for me I do. It’s those acts that have today given me something to write in my report. To begin with, seeing individuals litter the environment always made me irritated. However, pits sometimes being far away gave me no other option but to watch in sorrow! Today, I still thank the inventor of bins who has made waste disposal this easy. I later in my primary school was elected as a prefect (a term used to describe school leaders in primary schools in my country) which gave me the authority to direct my fellow pupils and ensure the school was always clean with wastes properly disposed.

Secondly, seeing my environment or surrounding beautiful makes me happy. This helps me understand why I never get tired of planting any type of vegetation where I live. Talk of flowers, trees, grass and many others. As much as they beatify my surrounding, they also help protect the environment from dangers of erosion among other negative occurrences. In addition, today, I am in several environmental groups that allow me to be part of environment protection. One of such include “race to net zero environmental campaign group” that mainly creates awareness to help reduce CO₂ production, participate in planting of trees and encourage use of biodegradable materials.

Lastly, I am conducting campaigns mainly using my WhatsApp and LinkedIn accounts to inform people on the effects of their behaviors to mother earth by stating why such acts should be avoided.

Helping the environment is my responsibility but what if you take it as your responsibility too? We will make a great step and that’s what is important.

Do whatever it takes to help the environment and ask your neighbor to do it too!