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'Run for Nature 3.0': Environmental education needed for all says environmentalist; 10,000 mango saplings distributed
HUBBALLI: The number of educated individuals has increased enormously, but educated people are weak in environmental education, regretted environmentalist and writer Shivanand Kalave.
Addressing Run For Nature 3.0, organised by Green Karnataka Association, We Care Foundation, and Vasundhara Foundation, here on Sunday, Kalave said that there is a need for environmental education for educated people, whereas less educated and illiterate people are living in an eco-friendly way. 'There are trees over 5,000 years old in African countries, and their saplings are being grown in Karnataka. However, human beings, with a lifespan of about 100 years, are killing trees for their greed.
If we don't go back to trees, the end of mankind is in the near future,' he warned.
Natural farming expert Kavita Mishra pressed for the plantation of carbon credit trees to combat increasing carbon in the environment. 'A myth is spread that agriculture is not a profitable occupation. If we do it with heart, Mother Earth will definitely hold our hands, and I am an instance of these words. I have grown about 8,000 trees on 8.10 acres of land and earn in lakhs a month,' she claimed.
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MLA Prasad Abbayya narrated that the celebration of World Environment Day started in 1973, but there is still a need for awareness. 'God has given us good nature, but human beings are spoiling it. Because of pollution, we are all consuming poisonous food. Protecting the environment is not only the duty of the govt or organisations, but everyone should join hands at an individual level,' he asserted.
Kshamata Seva Samsthe convenor Govind Joshi said that Indians have been worshipping the environment in the form of trees, water, air, and all other components of the ecology.
'However, these components are being destroyed in the name of modernisation,' he analysed.
Organiser Channu Hosamani said that they are distributing 10,000 mango Alphonso saplings to citizens so that they can grow them in their home gardens and eat chemical-free mangoes in the coming years.
MLA Mahesh Tenginkai and others inaugurated the run.
