Women, The Real Spirit of Environmental Conservation
As we all know today, March 8th, is celebrated as International women’s day across the world. The main purpose of this celebrating this day is to make women realise their worth in their family and in the society, boosting them to achieve as per their actual potential. On this day, the world unites to appreciate their courage to cross all the hurdles and make such tremendous improvement in all most all the spheres of life. No doubt, women can do wonders. We have many examples to prove it.
Involving women in environmental protection would help the society to develop the sense of responsibility needed to maintain a good balance between humans and the natural resources. Growing population and technological progress are continuously putting pressure on the environment and on country’s natural resources. Over-exploitation of the country’s resources like land, water, fuel etc. has resulted in degradation of resources mainly due to industrial pollution, soil erosion, deforestation and urbanization.
Hence, it is very much important to conserve and promote the natural resources and environment. Women have direct contact with natural resources like fuel, food and fodder, forest, water and land especially in rural areas where 70% of Indian population reside and directly dependent upon natural resources. Most of the women use these natural resources to satisfy the basic needs of their families. By this we can say that women play a critical role in managing these natural resources. Women can also participate in environmental conservation by gardening.
Gardening plays a crucial role in environmental protection. In this day, the carbon has increased in the environment. Gardening can protect our environment. It can minimize the effect of greenhouse gases. Gardening can reduce pollution, reduce soil erosion, maintains ecosystem and many more. It also has many scientific uses. We know that gardening is mostly done by women.
Hence women can also conserve environment by their gardening skills. We, girls, are no less. This is proven also. We have many women environmentalists between us. Greta Thunberg, Maneka gandhi, Saalumaradha Thimmakka, Vandana shiva, Wanghari Maathai and many more. By this we can say that women are the real spirit of environmental conservation. Let us take them as our inspiration and work to save our earth.
