Title :- Humans Taking Steps For Smooth Survival

Environment is a major support for humans to survive on earth. Environment it is

surrounding in which plants, animals, humans live and operate. Each and every
living organism require healthy environment to survive. Healthy Environment refers
to surrounding or habitat that are healthy, a environment that is not exposed to any
kind of environmental issues. Today not only humans are facing so many issues and
problems, environment is also facing it’s own issues and problems. Few examples of
environmental issues are global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, polluted
resources etc. The main source of these environmental issues are humans and their
activity. Human activities leading to environment pollution are using of refrigerants
which release harmful aerosols, release of harmful gases in atmosphere, excess of
use vehicles As human activities are a major source of environmental issues, so, we
humans need to come froward to protect and save our environment.
Many steps are being taken by government, N.G.O’s, even by few individuals to
protect environment. One to step taken by private organisation is C.S.R activity.
C.S.R stands for Corporate Social Responsibility. C.S.R activities are self -regulated
activities that a business can take in order to be more socially accountable to it’s
stakeholders and general public. If a company is taking C.S.R activities seriously it
means it is more socially responsible to society.
Four types of C.S.R activities are:-
Environmental social responsibility
Ethical/human rights social responsibility
Philanthropic corporate responsibility
Economic corporate responsibility
India is the first country in world to make C.S.R mandatory.
Few examples of C.S.R activities are ;-
*Reducing carbon footprint
*Engaging in charity work
*Purchasing fair trade products
*Investing in environmentally conscious businesses
*Getting involved in volunteer work
*Improving labour policies
Few organisations which are aiming at upskilling students are selecting students for
their upskill program for free of cost through C.S.R activities
Infosys Limited is the company which does the most C.S.R, next to it comes the
ITC Limited
By making C.S.R activity mandatory, many companies are taking steps to protect
environment by means of C.S.R activity.
Few international Companies that are involved in environmental related C.S.R
activities are:-
1. Starbucks
2. Marc Jacobs
3. Indigo Reach
4. IKEA
5. Bosch
6. Ben and Jerry’s
7. Apple
8. Coca-Cola
9. Alaska Airlines
10. BMW
11. Dell
12. Walt Disney Company
Standard environmental CSR activities include :-
Recycling
Waste reduction
Reducing water consumption
Reducing energy use
Reducing plastic consumption
Using renewable energy providers
Reducing GHG emissions
Adopting sustainable transport policies
These C.S.R activities are of course a good cause to society. The C.S.R activities
related to environment are helping a lot in protecting environment from major
environment issues. The decision by Indian government to make C.S.R activities
mandatory made a lot of companies to take an initiative to take a step for
improvement of society.
Government is taking many steps to protect environment, private companies are
taking to protect environment by means of C.S.R activities, many N.G.O’s are
also working to protect environment. But still environment is suffering from
environment issues because activities of humans which are causing environment
issues are in greater quantity when compared to steps taken by humans to solve
environment issues. It takes a huge time to get any kind of result for step taken to
protect environment for example you take bike and go on it , at that same instant
the gas released from bike contributes to environment pollution, but when you
plant a seed ,take proper care of it then after few week the plant grows so it needs
time to protect environment.
As an individual we need to take steps to protect environment. If we consider
three-fourth of world’s population is causing environment issues then at least
half of the world’s population should be involved in taking steps to protect
environment. For humans to survive on earth,the environment should survive.
As a country is developing,
it’s environment’s condition is degrading
No matter how much a country is economically wealthy
To survive the environment should be healthy
Let us plant more trees, decrease the usage of vehicles as much as possible,
follow principle of 3R’s that is reduce , recycle ,reuse ,reduce use of plastics , all
harmful effluents must be treated in appropriate way, all harmful element should
be replaced by less effecting elements.