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KATHMANDU, JANUAR 9Dear trainees, kindly impart some ecological knowledge to your teachers, and on a bigger scale, dear children, allow me to ditto the demand with regard to your moms and dads, too.
Yes, you read it right, and most likely deducted that it must be the other way round.
Nonetheless, I stubbornly stay with it, and assert that its no puerile sense of humour: now, parents and instructors have loads of serious eco-friendly stuff to learn from their children and trainees, in Nepal.
One prominent element of government schools in rural Nepal is the presence of a big chaur, or a buzz-cut lawn, where trainees can frolic, play, run or perhaps take lessons on a warm day, while its freezing inside class.
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Such chaurs are virtually non-existent in urban schools, and even if some had them in the past, they are now morphed into concrete surface areas.
From the very beginning, city schools unfairly avoid students from enjoying the greenery, while simultaneously uncovering the rich plant life and the macrofauna therein.Hence, in cities, students would be better off to ask teachers an em barrassing concern: why are such sprawling green carpets changed into concrete surface areas? Of late, school chaurs in the countryside are dealing with multiple risks, too: they are shrinking or perhaps vanishing because of new school buildings dealing with a larger number of students, a dirt track disfiguring or consuming them away, and so on.
Besides, todays school chaurs are frequently littered with plastic and paper.
Students may pertinently ask the instructors why such vibrant green and chaurs are at risk.Now, lets return house from the classrooms.
In the house, dear students, make sure that you treat on your favourite makai vatmaas and avoid the processed food that, the custodians of global health firmly insist, will ruin your health.
Have you saw that the junk shows up in vibrant covers? The next question you may ask your moms and dads: why is your karesabari-- rather of flowering with dynamic green salad, yummy cherry tomatoes, redolent coriander and lil jire khursani - loaded with colourful bottles, covers and packages? Dear students, the world is adopting an ostrich-like method on ecological problems.
You, as the international youth, no longer delight in the privilege to stay unconcerned.
As a trainee, do you know what greenwashing means? If we all - be it huge corporates, small factories, schools or people - in some way conceal our behavior adding to environmental destruction, then we are all turning to some sort of greenwashing.
Your role might thrust itself into great attention and all, including your teachers and parents, might act in a more ecologically friendly manner.
Thank you.
and environmentally yours!A version of this short article appears in the print on January 10, 2023, of The Himalayan Times
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This article very first appeared/also appeared in https://thehimalayantimes.com
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