As Mumbaikars we have been building castles in the sky. We all wish to be on top of the world, have a better lifestyle, want to do better at what we are doing, better than others or more so better than what we were before. We wish to have the best of gadgets, the best of rich packages & the best of smart life. While travelling to achieve this smart & better life we adore the hoardings on the way showcasing beautiful landscapes with greenery, clear blue skies & cleaner urban sprawls. Looking at those alluring hoardings we imagine ourselves taking a deep breath from our balconies into those pure air blue skies. But off the hoarding, we suddenly realize the options available on road are Survive or Stink?
A Mumbaikar being practical & moral chooses a relevant option of survive with stink! It’s a time saver option in his journey to achieve the better life showcased in the hoarding. Making way through the stink is a part & parcel enroute to the better life he dreams & struggles for daily. He storms his way under the weather till his last mile is just left with dream picture in the hoarding. While his journey passes to his last mile, he is oblivious to the fact that the climate is always changing! He keeps walking through water logged alleys of Mumbai. Yet, he has no time to think why it is so? Thus, his choice to survive with stink comes with a price that his children pay, while his soul rests in peace. For his children, the uncertainity & politics of climate change leaves only one option, to somehow survive. The stink is his child’s congenital environment. Meanwhile, the hoarding dream still peeks out alluring many, enriching the gulf between rich & poor.
Before we reach our last mile, we still stand a chance to create a third option. Survive or Stink or Segregate? Time is still giving us a golden opportunity, to segregate our denials & disposals before they completely choke the drains or pile up higher than our castles in the sky. Segregation of our own garbage is the SOS, which time is still permitting us to actually achieve the hoarding dream of pure air breathes with green urban sprawls.
Segregation of dry & wet waste is a choice we have. It’s a matter of time, if we make it a choice or not! Segregation is a decision maker for making the hoarding dream a reality in the realty.
