Pro- environmental behaviour can be understood as the actions that are meant to protect the environment from problems, and to promote a healthy environment.
Pro- environmental behaviour can be understood as the actions that are meant to protect the environment from problems, and to promote a healthy environment. The climatic change brings many odds to the citizens, so it’s very necessary to promote pro- environmental behaviour especially during the seasonal changes.
Promotive Actions for Pro-Environmental Behaviour
Some promotive actions to protect the environment from pollution are:
- Reducing air pollution: This can be done by keeping vehicles in good condition, or changing to non-fuel driven vehicles, and stopping the practice of smoking.
- Reducing noise pollution: Ensure that noise levels are low. For example-discouraging needless honking on the road and making rules regarding noisy music at certain hours.
- Managing disposal of garbage sensibly: Encourage the separation of biodegradable garbage from non- biodegradable waste or composting of kitchen waste. These practices need to be adopted both at home and in public places. Special attention has to be paid to the management of industrial and hospital waste.
- Planting trees and ensuring their care: Keeping in mind that those plants and trees should not be planted that have adverse health effects.
- Saying no to plastics: In any form, plastic or other toxic wastes that pollute water, air and soil should be reduced and prohibited.
- Packaging reduction: It’s necessary to reduce the non biodegradable packaging of consumer goods.
- Change in laws: All the laws should be changed that are related to construction in urban areas that violate the optimal environmental Design.
Whenever we talk of the environment, the major concern becomes the physical health of a person but pollution and filthy air can even lead to mental disorders.
The presence of polluting substances in water and soil are hazardous for physical health. Some of these chemicals can also have damaging psychological effects. The presence of specific chemicals such as lead can cause mental retardation by affecting brain development.
Such toxic substances affect human beings through various routes like through water, soil by being absorbed by vegetables grown in polluted soil. All this leads to a toxic environment and toxic health. As active citizens, it is necessary to promote pro- environmental behaviour both to protect physical and mental health.
In general, there exists sufficient evidence to prove that toxic chemicals in the air and soil hampers not only psychological formation but may also cause serious mental disorders. Therefore, there absolutely is no doubt that all forms of pollution need to be curbed.
