Healthy Environment, Healthy Life.
Nowadays, we are facing many environmental concerns and challenges. Many people are suffering from tremendous disasters, losing their loved ones, homes, businesses, and much more. And who is the cause of these problems? We, the people.
The environment plays a vital role in everyone's life. This is where we get some of our needs, such as air, water, materials, and food. Most of our needs come from our natural resources. But sometimes, we abuse our environment by throwing garbage anywhere, cutting down trees, and burning plastics without thinking of the consequences of these actions. What we do to nature inevitably affects us because we are part of it.
As you can see, our earth has greatly changed. As disasters continue to increase, many countries face these challenges, suffer from them, and are still struggling. We now experience extreme heat, earthquakes, typhoons, floods, tornadoes, and the loss of wildlife and species. These are the consequences of humans' abusive actions.
Humans are born to love and care, but as we've seen, humans are the ones who destroy and bring harm to the earth. We keep asking, "Why is this happening to us? Do we deserve this?" All these things happen due to the greediness and selfishness of people.
No one wants to live a miserable life, and people do risky things to protect lives and improve our world. However, they often believe that they made the right decision for everyone's good, but it may not be so.
Some people have good intentions but make wrong decisions, and every decision has consequences. Think carefully before you act; once something is done, we can never take it back.
"We're just humans after all, and nobody's perfect. As humans, we are responsible for our actions towards the environment. While we may not be able to prevent unpredictable disasters, we can at least minimize the damage they cause.
In our barrio, which is divided into seven clusters, we implement a Community Clean-Up at the end of every month, which can be done in each cluster.
We roam around our community and look for trash. Some people bring brooms, bolos, and sacks to collect the trash they pick up. We also collect plastic bottles and cartons and give them to the garbage truck.
We cut down thick grasses to prevent insects, especially mosquitoes that cause dengue, from hiding or living there. Dengue weakens the immune system, and without treatment, it can be fatal. Since there is no cure for this disease, we help each other to mitigate its spread and to keep our environment clean."
My part was to gather all the plastics that were stuck in the soil. Many people were laughing while picking up trash and cleaning, showing how much they enjoy and love what they do. It is so good to have a community like this, where people have one goal: to help and preserve the environment.