In many societies, there is a growing emphasis on sustainable living and reducing environmental impact. What are the challenges of adopting a sustainable lifestyle? What practical actions can individuals take to contribute to sustainability?
Despite widespread awareness about the relevance of environmentally friendly lifestyles among, embracing such ways is proving to be onerous. This can be attributed to several causes, making it imperative to discover panacea at individual level.
The most prominent of the impediments facing this task is the tremendous increment in the population, generating greater demands for shelter, food, industrialization and other amenities, to name a few, thereby engendering a stiff competition for facilities and goods, exacerbating the exploitation of natural resources such as minerals, wood, and so on, and impacting the environment adversely. Moreover, even though inhabitants are adequately enlightened and are willing to switch to eco-friendly ways, they lack access to expertise and resources that can be deployed to allow such transformation.
Additionally, several businesses are more concerned about financial benefits and less inclined to fulfilling corporate social responsibility - owing to economic pressures, and tend to use cheaper alternatives, in terms of energy sources and raw material, derived from the nature, instead of opting for greener fuels and applying concepts of recycling, in order to augment their profitability, precipitating adverse impact and offsetting any gains made in making environment sustainable.
Nevertheless, in order to turn the table on adversities, the populace at large should don the mantle by minimizing consumption, wastage and unsustainable ways such as excessive use of fossil fuels. It has been established by various researches that if one starts to act at their own device and limit their habits of overshopping; wasting water, electricity and other essential resources like food; and stop unnecessary usage of cars, things can go a long way.
Overall, the expanding population, lack of expertise and greed to earn higher returns are impeding switching to eco-friendly ways of life, nonetheless everyone can play their part by exercising restraint.
