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Answering question 2. Do you have a message to tell the world about the environmental impact that Mother Earth is experiencing?
My message is just simple - veganism and sustainability.
Earth day is celebrated once a year But celebrating once a year and worrying about this earth will not do anything. We, humans, have crossed all limits, we cannot test the endurance of the earth anymore.
Nature has its own balancing power and nature has always been responding to our cruelty towards mother earth with catastrophic destruction and this time also nature is giving its answer through COVID but maybe we are not ready to take it seriously yet.
Now the time has come, that we can not afford to linger on our efforts to protect the environment, and reverse the damage that we already have done to mother earth.
The solution in front of us is to bring a drastic change in our lifestyle which is causing destruction to the environment day by day. In my opinion vegan and sustainable lifestyle is the only solution. I have various strong arguments in favour of this lifestyle.
What is Veganism or Vegan lifestyle?
Veganism or vegan lifestyle is just about abstaining from any animal products and service but the question immediately comes to our mind that how it could be helpful to save mother earth?
The answer is very simple, whatever animal products we consume comes from the animal agriculture industry or from killing the wild animals. From various research, it has already been proved that animal raised for dairy and meat in the animal agriculture industry are the main source of greenhouse gasses emissions and polluting freshwater bodies and our oceans. How livestock farming affects the environment
Killing wild animals and fishing for our greed and food is also unbalancing the wildlife and nature and depleting our oceans. Ultimately by unbalancing nature we are destroying the mother earth. To know more about how the multi-billion-dollar fishing industry depleting our oceans everybody must watch the latest documentary on Netflix.
Here is the official trailer of Seaspiracy, available on youtube.
What is a Sustainable lifestyle?
A sustainable lifestyle is about minimizing the use of resources available on the earth. The unlimited indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources available on Earth is not only destroying the environment but has also emerged as a major threat to our existence.
Our every action consume some resources so it is not possible to stop using the resources but it can be minimized by drastically change in our lifestyle. A minimalist and vegan lifestyle is also a part of a sustainable lifestyle.
There is a say that
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
In very simple words, this earth is being suppressed under the burden of our consumerism. Nowadays everything in the market comes in attractive packaging and these single-use packagings consume a lot of natural resources like petroleum products. Not only packagings but the product we buy also consumes many natural resources in the manufacturing process.
Due to this consumerism, today our earth and oceans are littered with plastic and other junk and we are unable to understand how to get rid of them. It is affecting our climate and environment badly.
If we buy anything from the market without thinking and understanding and without need, our mother earth moans. It is clearly visible that the only answer to this consumerism is to overcome your needs and greed, that is, minimalist life which leads us towards sustainability.
Veganism also leads us to sustainability as not consuming animal products save a lot of freshwater, grains and can prevent deforestation. Both things help us to save our mother earth.
Don't you know how to live a sustainable life, then this video can help you to kickstart your sustainable lifestyle -
