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दषण रोको! Value what you have
VI दषण रोको, दषण रोको! Terri Sweringen once said “We are living on this planet as if there is another one to go to.”
मानव सोचो, मानव सोचो,
This couldn't be truer. I experience it first-hand every single day. It is easier to get wi-fi, than to get clean,
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समाधान खोजो, drinkable water. My waters are choking with hazardous plastics, my fish are dying, my beauty is getting
destroyed. If that isn't enough to bring about a change, I don't know what is. You do not see the things I
B वाय को श करन की सोचो। see, so you humans do not understand. Schools of fish, shivers of sharks, herds of sea turtles are all dying
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because of one foolish mistake. I'd like to see a day where my waters will flow free, my inhabitants happy
पड़ लगाओ, पड़ लगाओ,
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and healthy, my beauty restored. I'm not so sure I'd even live to see an hour like that, let alone a day.
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धरती को बजर होन स बचाओ!
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मानव सोचो, समाधान खोजो, Ha! The things I see: men in the shower complaining about a drought, not enough water for children to
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कित क िनयम को अपनाओ। drink, people eating plastic instead of fish. This is all just a taste of what's going to come. Just yesterday, a
little girl walked by my waters and tossed a chocolate wrapper as if it was nothing. An hour later a
य करो, उपाय करो, gorgeous gold fish washed up dead on my shore. Just because your children know how to speak, and
जल न न करो! mine can't, doesn't mean that they don't deserve a chance at a better life. If you still don't think it's
मानव सोचो, समाधान खोजो, important, think about your children. Will they have enough water to survive? Think about tourists
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अम जीवन, अनमोल ा को सीचो। visiting India from far and wide to see its magnificent sights and culture. Would they really want to see
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contaminated, dirty seas, oceans and rivers? I think not. Every day is the same, 1,00,000 marine species
मानव सोचो, समाधान खोजो, and 1 million sea birds die because of plastic each year. I am fading away. Don't forget, you too can make
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दषण रोको, दषण रोको! a difference. Just by not tossing 10 wrappers into my waters, 20 lives of innocent fish are saved.
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या गोिलया If someone takes your i-pad or phone away, you think the world has come crashing down. You have no time
Ma Famille મ યો ની આદતો, for miniscule problems like droughts and contaminated water. You have no time to think about the lives you
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Ma maison are endangering or the futures that you are ruining. No sir, not you. There's always Mars as a backup. So, go

Dans ma famille, il y a quatre membres- ma mère, પયાવરણ ને બગાડ અને બચાવે back to your YouTube, video games and what not.
mon père, mon frère et moi. Ma maison est à Khar à Mumbai. Il y a Mark my words, you will never understand how much
લા ટક નો વ ુ પડતો ઉપયોગ ન કરતા ં
treize pièces. Dans ma maison il y a I am worth until all the wells are dry.
Ma mère est grande et belle. Elle a les yeux châtains કાપડ તેમ જ કાગળ નો વપરાશ વધારવાથી quatre chambres, cinq salles de bains,

et les cheveux noirs, raides et mi-longs. Elle aime પયાવરણ ુ થશ.ે une salle à manger, un salon, un balcon Gayatri Srivasatava
cuisiner et tricoter. અયાના બારાઇ et une cuisine.

Mon père est très grand et mince. Il est homme Ma chambre est grande et belle. Dans
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d'affaires. Il aime le trekking et les fruits. Ses yeux What is Sustainability ? ma chambre il y a un lit, une armoire, un
sont noirs et ses cheveux sont courts, raides et noirs. nounours, une commode et des
Mon frère est petit, jeune et mignon. Il aime le The year imagine 2499. In Australia: Fires blazing, trees burning and entire cities in ashes. posters, Ma chambre est bleue. J'aime
ma chambre !
football et les échecs. Ses yeux sont bruns et comme In Japan: Tsunamis occurring every day, the ocean leaving waste everywhere, bringing
mon père ses cheveux sont noirs, courts et raides. floods to the cities, and tearing down houses. In USA: Tornadoes whirling through the Il y a une grande table avec six chaises et Alisha Patil
country, leaving people stranded and without homes; the start of the second Great un buffet dans ma salle à manger. La
J'adore ma famille !
Depression. The Earth: Barren forests, oceans grey because of the garbage in them, and cuisine de ma maison est grande est
Alisha Patil birds, animals and people nowhere to be seen. Because men didn't live sustainably. belle. Je prépare des gâteaux et des
pâtisseries dans ma cuisine. Il y a un
What is sustainability? The act of using less things? A law enforced upon mankind? Or a grand balcon dans ma maison. Mon
skill to practice every day? Scientists have a agreed on one thing: Sustainability means balcon a beaucoup de plantes. Mon
using things that we absolutely need, not things that we want. But they also know balcon est ma pièce préférée.
another thing: If we don't start living sustainably right now, we won't have Earth
Ma maison est belle et confortable.
anymore.
J'aime beaucoup ma maison.
Greta Thunberg went on a boat from London to New York. She wanted to set an example
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for people: You don't have to use planes all the time; use boats and live sustainably. She
stopped buying new clothes so she could live sustainably but others are doing the
opposite of that. Trees that have been here longer than us are cleared away because we A Roman Holiday Myra Ratnani
humans need paper and wood for our furniture. Because we don't live sustainably, the There is one place I will never forget! The place I got lost in. It all started in the middle of
amount of garbage we produce is a lot, and if it's burned, it pollutes the environment and April 2016. My family and I had been planning for the summer break and wondering which
contributes to global warming. A lot of our garbage finds its way into clean pure water-
destination to choose. One day as we were watching a program on the television, my dad
bodies that were once home to thriving ecosystems but now all fish are choked, all whales came into the room and announced - 'We're going to Europe'. Well, what do you all think?
have microplastics in them, and the coral reefs are dead. Tin Zi's symbolic art, “Under the As a 7-year-old my thoughts revolved around all the pizza that could be eaten -the thought Vaniya Lalwani
water, Over the Sea” shows how the oceans have become a dumping ground for us but
was amazing! But, my dad wanted to go somewhere in Rome, somewhere royal,
our non-sustainable way of living will eventually come back to harm us. Scientists have somewhere that had many paintings crafted centuries ago. We thus settled for the Vatican Try these when you're
proved that all fish contain plastic in them, and since non-vegetarians eat fish, they City. I wondered if it was a country!
Aryana Barai contain plastic too. We kill animals to eat them and to make things out of their fur, which feeling anxious or stressed
We walked into this country, which is also a city, and my dad told me that the Pope lived
results in an imbalance in the food chain. We are also causing many species to go extinct there. I was confused as to who the Pope was. When I saw the Sistine Chapel, it looked so 1. Take a time-out
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મ યો ની આદતો, because of this. beautiful and like the stairway to heaven or the pathway to live an eternal life. That day I 2. Eat well-balanced meals
પયાવરણ ને બગાડ અને બચાવે But there is a way we could change our fate, by changing ourselves. Using the three R’s learned a lot. Soon I got pretty bored and sat on a chair. A little after, to my dismay, I 3. Limit alcohol and caffeine, which can

(Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), we could reduce the waste we produce by buying fewer things. discovered I was lost. aggravate anxiety and trigger panic attacks
જયા- યા કચરો ફ કવાની આદત આ હને ગદં ો કર છે. We should only buy new clothes if our old ones don't fit us anymore, and do the same I started crying but the security guards came to my help. They asked for my name and took 4. Get enough sleep
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લોકો દ રયા કનાર ફરવા ય અને ગદક ફ લાવ. પણ me into a room. Then on the loudspeaker, a voice boomed,'Akaash's parents please come 5. Exercise daily to help you feel good and
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thing with shoes. We should reuse things we have like plastic bags, boxes, cups and
હવ લોકોમા ત ૃ તા આવી રહ છે, તેથી દ રયા કનારાની to SR 3'. maintain your health
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plates. We should recycle everything that's useless such as plastic wrappers (instead of
સફાઈ ચા ુ કર છે. પરં ુ જો આ ણ 'આર' - રડ સ ૂ ,
throwing them, we should give them to recycling centers). My parents came running and hugged me tightly. We went out and got ice cream and I took 6. Take deep breaths
રસાઈકલ અને ર ઝ ુ ું પાલન કડક ર તે થાય તો આપણો 7. Count to 10 slowly
હ હક કતમા ફર એકવાર સ વો માટ It should be our aim to change ourselves, and then people around us to live sustainably. away something from this adventure. - Pay attention. 8. Do your best
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રહવ ા લાયક થઈ ય. After all, we have only one planet to live on. After this incident I never got lost again.
Akaash Das Tiana Dalal
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