Earth Day vs. April Fools' Day

Yesterday, when I was driving for my office, I suffered a major traffic jam in which I spent 1 hour. My car was standing like a Chinese showpiece, moving nowhere else. I was looking around and had noticed that 90% of the car drivers are single in their respective cars. They all were suffering like anything, because each one of them had to reach their respective work places as early as possible. In the meantime, some car drivers, or I would say some smart car drivers, thought something different. They started reversing their cars to jump on to the parallel lane for other side traffic. Only few of them succeeded but most of them created a chaos on the road. The situation was so deadly that both the traffic lanes jammed like anything and no one could be able to move a single inch from their respective places. Very soon, the place converted into a battle field with full of pollution and hot words discussions.

Suddenly, I switched on my radio and I came to know from a RJ that today we are celebrating “EARTH DAY”, which means we have to save the earth. The situation was too comic for me. There were two totally different thought processes going on, inside my car and outside my car. I was shocked first and then laugh at what is happening.

“Earth Day”, celebrated on 22^nd April, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It all started from US and is celebrated in many countries every year. In India, this is the first time; I came to know something like this. This is very mirthful fact that we all are celebrating Earth Day to protect and save the environment and all this started from a country that is primarily responsible for Earth devastation.

3P is the major source of unbalancing in the world’s environment. 3P means – Poverty, Population and Pollution. And human being is the main focus for 3P. Ironically, we all are talking, like a philosopher, to save the Earth but are doing nothing to achieve the same. Doing small things, while our day to day activities, will contribute a major chunk in this huge initiation of “SAVE THE EARTH”.

We all are aware of April Fools' Day, which is a day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of frauds and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors, or sending them on a fool's errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.

In my opinion, “Earth Day” and “April Fools' Day” should be celebrated on the same day. Why? Let me tell you.

We all are throwing jokes on other side on April Fools' Day. And since we all are throwing jokes on Earth on our day to day activities, at least we should club Earth Day with April Fools' Day.

If we have to save the earth, every day should be EARTH DAY not a April Fools' Day.

Balance between two things is important here –

· Development and Environment

· Technology and Ecology

So, “THINK GLOBALY AND ACT LOCALLY.”

-- Sanat Sharma