Can you spare few minutes for the environment?

Time is Money, money is time! How often have you heard this phrase or used it? Do you have the time to even read this article? There’s hardly any time left to finish what I’m writing, it’s 12:06 am, I have to get up in 5 hours. Complete home chores, prepare breakfast, gobble it, and get ready for one of the most difficult tasks in the world…Asking people for their time.

Excuse me, can you spare few minutes for the environment? Can you really? Most of us run against time, trying to catch up with the life we dream of and hope for. Yet life passes us by and we don’t even realize it. It makes you wonder whether taking few minutes out to save some lives is too much to ask…

We know you have to rush to work, make those important phone calls. Reach on time for that important appointment then go home to the people who are waiting for you…your family. The people you care about the most, protect fiercely and work endlessly to provide for. Isn’t it? You sacrifice for them, travel under severe weather for them and deal with the most difficult devil (your boss) for them. Where’s the time for anything else?

At Greenpeace, we are not all that different…we are looking out for our family. You are family, just like every life on this planet. We spend our time spreading awareness about our environment on this fragile earth. Conducting scientific research, power-packed campaigns and finding alternatives and solutions to make our world a better and safer place for all. We walk on the streets asking people to spare few minutes for the environment. To listen. To act. To support.

An international NGO, referred by some as “environmental watchdogs” because when dangerous situations are about to raise their ugly heads we sound the alarm. With presence in more than 42 countries with 35,000 supporters in India and 2.8 million worldwide Greenpeace is getting stronger than ever. Power-packed campaigns against climate change, toxic dumping, genetically modified crops and deforestation, to name a few, are getting recognition and gaining support all over the world.

Do you know what it is like to see a life being snuffed out? We hope you don’t have to face the horrors that many have suffered and are still enduring because someone somewhere didn’t have few minutes for the environment…I hope when you see a Greenpeace volunteer next time you can spare a wee bit of your time to listen to your family. Greenpeace on Earth!

SaiSayani