The Power of ONE

In our country there are around 123 crore people. Lets round it off to 100 crore. If 100 Crore Indians waste only 1 gram of food while having their breakfast, lunch or dinner (Assuming that 100 Crore Indians get food everyday!), it sums up to 1000000000 grams which equals to 1000000 Kg or 1000 Tonnes. Have you ever imagined that while we leave behind the last bite of our meal very c
asually, we are contributing to this huge wastage of food of around 1000 tonnes. (And we never fail to criticize the Government when we see the news channels showing grains being washed away by rain water!) This is the assumption of only a single meal, which means we waste around 2000 Tonnes of meal everyday. This is the figure when we are considering only the population of India. The Population of entire world is around 700 Crore. Therefore, if we consider only 500 Crore people around the world who waste 1 gm food per meal, then they must be happy enough to be  Proud Contributors of 5000 Tonnes of Food wastage per meal everyday. An average amount of 0.25 Kg of food is required per person in a day, so this amount of 5000 tonnes of food can feed around 2 Crore people per meal per day! Therefore, in a way, these contributors are spoiling away the food of around 2 Crore People!


Now keep this "500 tonnes" in mind because we are going to look into some more essential natural resources which we know are so important yet we never think to conserve them!

If you are a part of the above 500 Crore Proud Contributors, then please check out whether you contribute to the below mentioned list as well or not:

- 500 Crore x 1 ml Petrol = 5000000 litre Petrol wastage everyday.

- 500 Crore x 1 ml Water = 5000000 litre Water wastage everyday.

- 500 Crore x 1 W Electricity = 5000000 W Electricity wastage everyday.

- 500 Crore x 1 single wrapper (specially plastic) thrown in street/river = 5000000 pieces of wrappers littering around the street/river.

And the list goes on!

Lets not feel insulted. Lets think in the other way round. Think that if we take this oath that we will produce 0 wastage while we take meal, turn off the Engine or at least save only 1 ml of Petrol everyday, switch off the fan/light only for a minute then we can be Really Proud Contributors of 5000 Tonnes of Conservation of Natural Resources EVERYDAY !

This is the Power of One and the Choice is Yours! Even after reading this, you can carry on the Chalta Hai attitude or start Saving just ONE unit of energy everyday and Sustain the Future.