A Tribute to Mother Earth

I noticed today that google has a nice picture of waterfalls, trees animals instead of the word google. So I clicked the picture to find out the occasion behind the picture, only to find out that it is put up in honour of Earth Day.
Although I like to consider myself an environment friendly person, I have to admit I did not know that today is Earth Day, or that the previous week (16th-22nd of April) is considered Earth Week (I am awful at remembering dates and anniversaries).
It might be a bit late for Earth day/week, yet it is never late for Earth. As a tribute to our Earth, I thought I would write a series of articles, to shed yet another mini spotlight on how unfair we are being towards our Earth, towards ourselves, and the generations to come.

On a daily basis, we are surrounded by temptations to harm our planet, starting with simple everyday choices made at a personal level like using spray deodorants, and ending with bigger decisions made at institutional levels such as cutting down trees.
In this article, I will discuss one of the simple choices that we make on a daily basis without much contemplation of the results on our mother Earth.

I was walking in a nice supermarket the other day, and passed by the deodorants shelves. I found that almost half of the ones put up there are pressure pack spray cans. Here is one idea I could think of after seeing the shelves filled with those cans:
How come it is (hypothetically) illegal to throw garbage on the street but it is not illegal to use deodorants in pressure spray cans? Does this mean we only care about the looks of the streets, but not what this garbage is really doing to our environment, so we illegalize garbage throwing, but not another kind of abuse that has almost the same effect on our environment? Are people using such cans even know how they are affecting the environment? If we cannot illegalize them, could we at least put a warning sign -as some kind of public education on their harm- like the ones put on cigarette packs? Aren’t they as harmful to our environment as cancer is to humans?

Those questions could be a lot to think about, but they need to be tackled soon if we want to save our planet, and lessen the amount of environmental damage we are causing on a daily basis…