The importance of Going Green

I remember when I used to be a kid, my teacher always tells me to

behave in the world. He taught me: not to fight with others, to
work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to
hurt other creatures, to share and not be greedy.

As a kid, I’m bewildered. I mean, why are they, the adults go out
and do all the things they tell me not to do?

Go Green, a concept that has been underrated since the day it was
born. Basically, going green means to live life, as an individual as
well as a community, in a way that is friendly to the natural
environment and is sustainable for the Earth.

Well, the first step towards living a more planet conscious life is
to be environmentally conscious. People should think before they
buy and bin, and emphasize on the 3 R’s, reduce, reuse, recycle.
Not only that it saves energy, it also helps to reduce pollution and
the need for landfill.

Besides, we must stop ravaging the planet with over-consumption.

To illustrate, studies have shown that approximately 3 million
kilograms of safe food is being thrown in a daily basis in Malaysia.
Not just food, energy conserved is life preserved. Switch off the
power button when no one is in the room. Minimize personal
vehicles usage by using public transportation or bicycles for small
distances.

Nevertheless, sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to

stop participating in the problem.

I mean, we don’t know how to fix holes in our ozone layer. We

don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. We don’t
know how to bring back an animal now extinct and you can’t
bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert.

But the past is the past. We must stop playing the blame game and
start focusing on solving the current environmental problems by
Going Green. These efforts may seem small, but it has been said
that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can
cause a typhoon halfway around the world. Let’s take a stand for
the love of green as we are not apart from nature but rather a part
of nature.