The day has come and gone but Male, our square mile of home,
sits in its daily litter. While bill boards for Wall's ice-cream for
"tasting the joy of Cornetto', and that for energy drinks for
"energy for holidays" and for "it all starts with Nescafe"
has come up on our beautiful waterfront blemishing the scenic beauty of the
scene we are to behold beyond our turquoise
waters, the tree-bases that line our main avenues and the sea front waters also
still keep the litter of our populace after enjoying the above. The day has
come and gone, I hear, with the hype of strong messages of taking care of those
who litter. Yet little result is visible.
The aware part of our populace did indeed survey the content
of the litter on our streets as a part of their contribution to the environment
day. They collected and sorted the content and found pet bottles, empty supari
sachets, cigarette packet covers, energy drink cans, and empty Milo packets and
the like to be the gist. Seemingly these items point to youth action and alas, they
are the future of our society.
We need our municipal authorities or those in whatever name to
take urgent action to curb this advance to a Male that can be the dump of our
Region while our neighbors are valiantly attempting to clean up a littering
past and succeeding. This blog will be I
know only a smattering in the wind as regards progressive action, but many such
smatterings offered by other concerned citizens of Maldives will add up to a
meaningful attempt. If our elected
authorities will not take action for their term in office, we the citizens must
make our youth aware of the irresponsibility they exercise, and what this could
mean for the future of our society.
Democracy is certainly not this!
2 comments:
In a desperate society people are constantly effected by an instinct of ignorance. The impacts are entirely negative consequences and they are completely blind to the scenery around them and blamed someone else, some authority or an institute instead, to realize that it's his own backyard. This cannot be cured or solved by brute force but educate them selves to be less barbarians.
very true, those concerned, and those who benefit from this must be the first to do something to reverse the trend. How about getting our soccer hero to say something or do something about the littering from empty Milo packets. Can its billboards say something about keeping Male, your future clean. perhaps this heroes world may ring a bell in young minds!
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