The Earth: home to over 7 billion human beings. Evolution has brought us to the prime of physiological, philosophical and scientific development. However, with the invention of locomotives, us human beings have gone faster and further than any other living creature in nature within the past centuries.
The widespread production and use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers have rendered vast tracts of land sterile: sterile in the sense that an ecosystem of healthy microbes to insects and animals have been cleansed, leaving fruits and vegetables that have chemicals that have been found to have lingered in human body cells for years after consumption, leading to undesirable health conditions.
This year, the world is making a change: one sustainable step by individuals such as ourselves; something that is environmentally friendly, that we would do beyond the Earth Hour.
On 26 March this year, the island nation, Maldives will participate in the global event by turning off the lights of iconic buildings and landmarks; from the Maldives Monetary Authority, the Velaanaage Office Building, The President’s Office, to large private buildings, to the Maldives National University, colleges, schools and government buildings in the 200 inhabited islands scattered in the 1,192 white sandy islands that comprise the Maldives.
