Dia Mirza Urges Return To Sustainable Roots

NEW DELHI (ANI) – Actor Dia Mirza who is also a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador and United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development has often been vocal for change and has contributed her efforts in the field of social change, conservation and the environment, urged people on thinking more about India’s future.

Dia said, “Everything we use in our daily lives comes from the earth and has to go back to the earth in a form and shape that is healthy for earth and people. A few days ago, we spotlighted to the world that we had overshot the resources the Earth provides annually to all of us, it’s called Earth Overshoot Day. This happened in August…we have 4 more months in this year left and we have already surpassed in our consumption or what the earth provides. Which means we are stealing from our own children and grandchildren what they will require to live, to be healthy, to be happy.”

Dia urged people to reject single use plastics and return to sustainable roots.

She added, “Change occurs when we make individual choices. So, refuse single-use plastics. The simple things that we can refuse are bottles, cutlery, crockery, use your own. I there are young people in India in villages who are starting steel banks where big occasions and big functions are being hosted without creating a single waste product, especially of plastic. So, we need to go back to the basics and go back to our roots because our ancestors and our predecessors who lived and walked this earth knew that we needed to be less harmful to the earth. We are the land that serves food in leaf plates, who served water in metal ware and in clay pots.”