What is the most important thing we need in life? It can't be anything but Oxygen. Yes we all know we breathe in Oxygen and breath out Carbon dioxide and we continue to live as long as this process goes on.

We consider us humans to be the most superior species of all. But sadly we do not make our own oxygen for survival. We depend on mother nature to provide us the most basic and vital requirement  for life.

 Green plants produce oxygen during photosynthesis and we consume it while breathing. This process is going on since life exists. And the best part is we get it all free of cost. Mother Earth provides us oxygen without charging us anything. But the irony lies here. Since we get it free we don't value it. We don't really sit and think about what we are returning to the earth.

But this thanklessness is still okay till we don't punish the nature for the good it does to us. Sadly humans are cruel enough that instead of being grateful they cut down trees and forests to fulfil their own needs. New industries are set up by cutting down large forests. We have been polluting the air, water, soil and everything that belongs to the nature since ages.

Commercial values have become the most important value in today's world. So let us just think, what would happen if humans cut down all the forests on Earth and start producing oxygen artificially.

An average human consumption of oxygen is about 550 liters per day. 1 litre of canned oxygen is priced at about Rs 500. So according to the calculations a single person would need oxygen worth Rs 275000 per day. This huge sum of money is practically impossible to afford by almost anyone. This coronavirus pandemic has taught us the real importance of oxygen and how scary can be the scarcity of oxygen. Therefore we should appreciate what we are getting free of cost from mother Earth. 

In order to control the damage already done to the nature and to prevent further damage few small steps or initiatives can be taken by us.

Let us consider an average human life span to be of 60 years. When a child is born and attains 11 years of age he should be encouraged by his parents and guardians to plant atleast one plant every year during his birthday and look after it the whole year and see it grow with him. This way he develops love for plantation and also able to plant atleast 50 plants during his lifetime.

Moreover when it is necessary to set up new industries and townships government must give importance to plantation as well. Each industry or housing society which is build by cutting forest should plant a given number of plants and take care of them as they grow. This way the number of plants lost from nature can be balanced to some extent and so the air which would be polluted by those industries can be purified.

These small practices if done from today we can return to our nature atleast a small portion of what it is giving us.

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