Our environment needs better care

As time goes by, technology grew and humans multiplied, different devices were invented such as the radio, the computer and even the calculator to make day-to-day interactions easier. As the human race progressed, we forgot about our environment.Not until  the 1970’s when the ozone layer depletion was discovered, humans all over the world know virtually […]

As time goes by, technology grew and humans multiplied, different devices were invented such as the radio, the computer and even the calculator to make day-to-day interactions easier. As the human race progressed, we forgot about our environment.
Not until  the 1970’s when the ozone layer depletion was discovered, humans all over the world know virtually nothing about their world and ways they can act to prevent global warming  by creating environmentally-friendly products which reduce and prevent the release of green house gases.
In Nigeria, I wonder why we kill ourselves by turning deaf ears to what goes on in our world and ways to stop it. Rather we litter, we smoke, we fell trees, we burn our bushes; we pollute our water with toxic waste acting as if we don’t breathe the air. We fell trees and act in a manner suggestive of the fact that we don’t need trees for oxygen. We also forget the fact that fumes choke us, we also forget that the water we pollute is that one we drink and the fish we contaminate may end up on our plate.
We forget all these important facts and act as though the world was not given to us by God to nurture. We destroy our world with the invention of new technologies that only harm our environment.
We need to change how we view the world as we are architects of our own problems. We need to make a difference and we can do that with the little things we do and start to make a difference by just being aware.
(Asein, a JSS 3 Student of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja contributed this article).