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I am also collaborating with Sustainable Tourism India, We watched a beautiful sunset in Varkala one evening.
Ministry of Tourism to encourage more responsible and The kinds that stays with you for a long time.
mindful travel habits.

Q. A message you’d like to give to all the times. We don’t feel sad when nature is violated
environment enthusiasts and entrepreneurs? because somehow along the way, our life became

Ans. I just hold on to the one quote I read separated and incubated.
somewhere when I am doubting myself or So, I feel like if we took some time off of our
doubting my efforts. “The biggest threat to the busy day, watched the sunrise, went to a beach
planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” somewhere, watched the sunset, sign up for a hike
All of us love our planet with its beautiful rivers, sometime, we would feel more connected to the
mountains, forests and beaches. And we all know life around us and feel more compassionate.
that we are facing a climate crisis now. I think
terms like ‘environment enthusiast’ sound big and
less inclusive of all. In some way, it spreads the
thought that there are some people out there or a
board of the government assigned with the job of
“protecting our environment” and that it’s not our
responsibility.

The reality is that we need the planet more than
the planet needs us. In Palakkad, I was part
of a beautiful project where we identify trees
in public spaces and record their stories and
people’s memories about them. One time, our
Project Head said something that made a lot of
sense to me: people don’t feel the urge to protest
against a big tree being chopped off in their
neighbourhood because they have no connection
with it. They possibly didn’t play under the tree, sit And we couldn’t bear to see all the plastic waste lying
around and talk or wait for a bus even, like in old around the next morning. We cleaned up a little bit.
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