And yet those are paid with the un-green environment we have today, the extinction of the God’s creatures we are facing now, and most importantly, we are dealing with the greatest guilt of today’s mankind, the guilt of destroying the nature,—and we are still claiming that we have nothing to do with others; what we do is what we do.
How ironic.
Everyone is still breathing just because there are trees around. That is the simplest way to show the great connection we have with our environment. Luckily, there are people who know this very well, doing every effort to maintain the cool air of the environment, and are working very hard to get rid of their guilt due to their past doings to the Mother Nature (at least).
The Grapevine is an amazing club (I am trying to be moderate).So when there was a call about this community work—a replanting of mangrove trees activity at the Kuala Selangor, we were so excited about it (the president was the most excited one). Possibly, we rarely encounter such an environmental community work that we developed a very great interest in this matter.
Personally, I was not very interested in the idea of going there, because surely, there will be mud, weird insects flying around, and you are going to get dirty. Obviously, those are what you have to expect from a swamp. However, looking at the other spiritful club members, I still went there despite of the unfavorable images in my mind. Reaching there, I was ‘lucky’ because nothing that I encountered was any better than what I had imagined.
At first, we were briefed about the way we are supposed to plant each tree by one of the officer there. Somehow, there was this sad part where we were assigned to the most muddy and watery area. The water level was so high that we could not even feel the soil to plant the trees. There were also many people ‘sucked’ into the mud that we ended up pulling people out of the mud instead of planting more trees. The condition there was bad mostly because it was raining the day before, which made the condition to become worse. Apart from that, we learnt to work as a team, where we had to work together to walk on the muddy area, and the guidance from the front people during the walking activity was extremely needed. Honestly, I felt that we consumed more time facing the ‘adventure’ and ‘obstacles’ rather than doing the real task—planting all the trees.
From here, the activity made us realize of something (of course, besides realizing how difficult it is to plant trees in a swamp)—how much we have to pay back for the damage we caused to the nature. That was just a piece of damage. Just imagine how bad we have to work to restore all the greens. Therefore, it is sad to know that there are still people claiming how they are ‘not connected to the nature’ after all the damages they did.
We were quite upset; because we know how hard we have to work to restore the greens. We really know.
So there, back to the stance, we are doing those works as a part of our responsibility. It is a way to cover up the guilt for damaging the environment; therefore, we have many activities to pay the nature back. So, now, there is such thing like the Earth Hour. However we have to remember, these are not the only ways. Think of the muddy destroyed swamp when you are talking about the earth hour, think of the carbon monoxide that your cars release every morning, and think of the ais kacang plastic bag you threw out last week. Because, I bet, you never want to know about what you have to pay tomorrow for what you have caused.
And for the Earth Hour, lights off not for the earth, but for your guilt?
our beloved lecturer!
all in all,the weather was great and the trip was really enjoyable. we would like to take this opportunity to thank miss singh for accompanying us for this trip!
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