Resources

I was thinking about this some time now. Why do we waste any kind of resources?Government is trying so hard to let people know that all the resources are very important. We are still a developing country and most of our country still lives below poverty line. In this kind of situation how can we afford to waste any resources?

Think about food. Our elders taught us when we were kids that never leave anything in your dishes. But are we following it? I have seen horrible pictures of a kid, dying because of hungers somewhere in Somalia, shouldn't we think about them before wasting any of the food items. In our lunch/dinner parties, we order so much and then when people don't turn up we just throw it. Shouldn't we be taking uttermost care before ordering for the food? While eating on buffet also we normally take so much food in our dishes that we hardly able to finish it and all that food we dump in the dustbins. Now next time onwards before throwing the food just look at some picture below and think about it.

About the picture: The photo is "Pulitzer Prize" winner in 1994, during sudane famine. Picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards UN food camp located kms away. The vulture is waiting for child to die so that it can eat it. Three months later, the photographer Kevin Carter, committed suicide due to depression!

Another big example is water. The thought of water scarcity really scares me. Just think what will be the future without water. The water levels in all our rivers are coming down. Most of the villages in Africa don't get water even to drink forget about bathing/washing. Forget about Africa in our country also there are thousands of villages where people have to walk for more than 10 kms many times to get the drinking water. In this kind of situations how can we waste water? Why should our taps leak? why should we waste hell lot of water in our bathing and even our toilets!!!

Take another example, say electricity, people tell anyways we are paying for it. We have enough money then why should we worry about that. But my question is why shouldn't we switch off our tube light/bulb when we don't need it? I know it is not going to affect much to your electricity bills, but if we save electricity, it might be possible for the government to supply those electricity to the villages where still people don't know what electricity is? At least they will able to see light in their life! We do spend so much in decorating our houses, shops, malls with electric bulbs. Shouldn't we be spending lesser electricity there and spend more on development? I'm not telling we all should start living in darkness but wherever possible we can reduce the usage.

If we really want to follow Gandhigiri, from Munnabhai, these are the must principles we should follow. Never waste any resources. However silly it might look.