CHALLENGE 4

Discuss some issue of personal, local, or national concern and its importance to you. (Hood)

Look around you, it’s everywhere; in the soil, in the water and in the air. And if you don’t see it, you should definitely visit India, especially Kolkata! But I think it will reach you too in a few years because it’s contagious. Once a place gets saturated with it, it spreads out to other places. And it harms us and the future generations every second.

If you haven’t guessed yet, I am talking about pollution.

Environmental pollution is not only a concern to me, but to every person living on this planet who is not ignorant. This issue is finally given a little importance nowadays. You can see advertisement all around telling you not to throw garbage here and there, not to use plastic, to plant more and  trees, to “go green” etc. More and more people are getting aware of it. It would have been much better if people thought about this a few years earlier, when its traces first appeared. It’s a little late now, and a bit difficult too. But I don’t think it is impossible. I believe that even if half the population looked at the issue seriously and did small things to help the environment, this world would be a much better place in every aspect. There are so many different organisations which aim to make the environment pollution free, but they will be of no use if the people don’t help them. And it isn’t even hard. Even a thing like reducing your shower timing to 5 to 10 minutes helps.  An environmental organisation cannot change the world. We all will have to contribute.

We created pollution; we are getting harmed by it, so we are the ones who need to get rid of it. And we have to get rid of it now, before it gets extremely late and the earth drowns or we all get skin cancer and die, or something else, like, we run out of drinking water and die of thirst. And if you think that you will not live to witness any of this happening, think about your children.