Clearly, in our generation, you cannot be human and be against common-sense. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet.

    Thomas L. Friedman, an American political commentator, author and a New York Times columnist once said  "You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and an oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children...The term “pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth”.

Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change is a civilizational wake-up call. I will term it as a powerful message, spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—portraying the bigger picture that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. 

 A healthy and happy employee in an office in the Nairobi's Central Business District tend to possess more energetic, they are more engaged at work and fall sick less often. Therefore, creating a culture of good health is a wise organizational strategy.

  I now understand what Banani Ray meant in her book 'Meditation Walking the Path of Peace: A Guidebook for Stress Free Living' when she said "Trees are great messengers of peace. One of the worst crimes of modern humankind is indiscriminate cutting down of the trees, and forests, in the pursuit of establishing civilization. No wonder, that modern civilized society has everything but peace.”

Improving the health and well-being of employees makes good business sense. It even goes down to impacting on the morale and acts as  motivation to the employees. In the long run, employees benefit from better support for their health; as companies benefit from less absence and improved public health.

The world is changing. Breathtaking technological developments, coupled with rapid advances in medicine, supported a dramatic explosion in the human population worldwide. Increases in human population placed pressure upon the habitat. Commercial enterprises nimbly renamed the “environmental crisis. We live on the brink of impending disaster.

Nonetheless, the world must carry on. It is our greatest challenge to place our self-gratification in check to ensure that our species and other creatures survive the violent grasps against the ecosystem. Despite the rapid expansion of new technology, the fundamental challenge of humanity remains consistent. Every generation must address how to live a purposeful life, one filled with joy and contentment.”

I will wrap up by reminding ourselves of the great Amit Ray; The core of the ecological imbalance and global warming is the exploitation mindset. Nature is not for exploitation but exploration for better living, coexistence, co-caring, and co-growing.”

Let us also remember that great things happen through great commitments. Our commitment to the next generation is a pollution-free, toxic chemical-free, nuclear weapons-free, clean world.

References:

Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity; Amit Ray

Nuclear Weapons Free World Peace on the Earth; Amit Ray

Meditation Walking the Path of Peace: A Guidebook for Stress Free Living; Banani Ray