Have you ever wondered why we relate this earth as Mother Earth? It is because that in our diversified civilizations and varied cultures, creeds religions and races, the Earth has all along been worshipped most reverentially, more and more due to her benevolence to the over gone generations and yet those to come by. It has been remarked as mother because of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for the sustenance but extends protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who fells it.

But lately man’s demand has been increasing for his own selfish interests. The exploding population and the scientific revolution have in unison brought havoc and ultimate death of nature and its resources. The mechanical framework clubbed with capitalistic paradigm is sniffing out life from each and every part of our ecosystem. The more our economy is growing, the faster our nature is diminishing, our mother earth is dying. The increasing rate with which we are polluting rivers and wetlands, pumping pollution into the air and mining minerals from earth, chopping down trees for the sake of developments like highways, flyovers, railways, etc are doing nothing but slowly murdering the earth.

The scientific community has rightfully attributed that by the year end 2020, we will require another Earth to substance the accelerating population. Where on earth we are heading is a big cocooned question mark of the day? And then how long will sustain on the space is quite a matter of utmost concern. Over the decade’s scores of conferences, summits have been held to bring under deliberations workable strategies to counteract the impending catastrophes but till date all these summits have been proved to be and attributed as zero sum exercises.

We are blaming each other for the state we are in today. The US and most of other European countries which are the biggest polluters blame China and India and other fragmented nations of North-Eastern and South-Eastern countries. The rat-race on industrialization, emission of obnoxious gases and polluting of pious rivers and oceans by hazardous effluents are the root causes of the present condition of the Mother Earth. The biggest issue today is how this life leasing planet is to be protected? There is no instant formula to make this earth a greener place or getting rid of the pollutants that have been going in the environment for quite some time now. But we have to work on strategies to make our Mother Earth neat clean and above all green.

We humans over this globe shall have to and must have to make our all out efforts in her preservation and conservation. We must make all possible efforts in the preservation and conservation of vide varied ecosystem, its flora and fauna, soil, water, minerals and further endorse ourselves to the fullest for the sake of ‘Mother Earth’ to the posterities. Being 22nd April, the Earth Day let us pledge to do our bit to make this earth a safer and healthy place to live.