Growing up in my state of origin, there used to be environmental sanitation officials driving with their vehicles every last Saturday of the month to ensure people clean their environment. The particular words you'd hear are "operation keep your environment clean" after going around in the morning and making that announcement for everyone to hear. Then, in the early hours of the evening, you'd see them entering the streets. If anyone didn't clean their environment in the morning, that person would be charged to pay a penalty.
Tell me, "Who isn't scared of paying a penalty?" To avoid the penalty payment, my mother would ensure that my siblings and I partake in the cleaning process. I know most times, what the sanitation personnel are doing seems forced and goes against our fundamental human rights. The right to do what we want and are pleased to do at every moment in time.
But the government will impose it on those people to ensure that citizens clean the environment they live in, and now that single act won't benefit the sanitation officers or the government alone. It would benefit the citizens as well. I know often people would grumble and lament when these officers show up at the end of the month.
Enough of the story. They say cleanliness is next to godliness; now, that phrase shows that even the creator is fascinated by cleanliness. Being clean doesn't just make our environment glitter like gold and sparkle. Being in a clean environment improves our health as well. And you know what they say about our health being our wealth. The environment plays a vital role in our health.
Living in a dirty environment is likely to threaten our health, but living in the opposite of that environment, I believe you know what it does: "You become wealthy." Ooh! Sorry I mean healthy. In general, our health is our number one priority; it is something that can't traded for anything in the world, and our environment plays a role in maintaining our health.
My idea of a healthy environment:
A healthy environment compromises certain things; well, for me, it is an environment that is safe for mankind to live in, one that isn't contaminated and isn't a threat to human health. If there is one thing I've noticed, it is the fact that our environment can also affect our mental health, not just the physical aspect of our health.
Things that should be in place for a healthy environment. The environment should be free from bad water gathering. Some years back, after rounding my senior secondary school, I got this job that allowed me to walk around certain environments, and my eyes beheld the kind of places people live in that aren't healthy. Living in an environment like that can cause such harm to the body.
People should learn to clean the environment they live in and not depend on others to do it for them. Disposing of waste properly, not forgetting the truth that our environment tells a lot about us and when our environment becomes better and healthy, it affects our planet as a whole.
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