Sustainability Development – The talk with Pradip Burman

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Sustainability Development The talk with Pradip
Burman
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Sustainability development is conserving natural
resources in the present to fulfil peoples needs
without compromising the needs of future
generations. It is crucial to protect our planet
and win battles against overpopulation, climate
change, pollution, global warming, etc. Pandemic
has been a major obstacle to sustainable
development goals. However, leaders like Pradip
Burman are making valuable efforts to curb such
issues.
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Mr Pradip Burman, chairman of Dabur, Nepal and a
board member of Aviva Life Insurance, is an
influential leader, sworn environmentalist and a
crusader of sustainability. He has been the
director of FMCG major Dabur India, his ancestral
company, and founded Ayurvet, producing herbal
products for animals. Being around social leaders
and philanthropists all his life, he has imbibed
a keen interest in environmental protection and
is currently working for various social causes. 
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According to Mr Pradip Burman, climate change and
air pollution are the most significant
sustainability challenges today. Due to rising
levels of air pollution, the children are
suffering from diseases like asthma and other
lung ailments. Air pollution is also the main
reason behind global warming and climate change.
It is, however, linked to population because the
more the population, the greater will be the
amount of gases. It is a step-down effect that
carries on and on.
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The population is at an all-time high, and due to
advancement in the medical field, the life
expectancy rate has improved. In a way, its good
news, but it does put pressure on the planet.
Stating which he provides two solutions to this
problem, i.e. recycling and using renewable
energy. He says, We have to recycle everything,
and we have to use 100 resources that come from
renewable energy.   He explains that if we
continue to live like this, the next generation
will not survive. Today people are lacking clean
drinking water and are breathless due to highly
polluted air. Plus, the energy consumed is from
non-renewable sources, and there are no proper
waste management techniques. Soon there will be
no energy to use, and a pyre of waste will be
gathered around us. The only solution to such
problems is adopting sustainable practices in our
lifestyle.
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Pradip Burman further says that he has dedicated
the rest of his life to revive the planet in all
the ways he could. So in 2015, he founded Mobius
Foundation, a non profit organisation, focus
solely on conserving the ecosystem through
spreading awareness about adopting sustainable
practices.
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• The 3 main initiatives by Mobius Foundation are
• Project Akar Overpopulation impacts practically
  sustainability and every other aspect of the
  planet. Therefore it works for stabilising the
  population through spreading awareness about
  family planning and the advantages of using
  contraceptives.
• World Environment School (WESc) Spread over 100
  acres of hills in Coorg, WESc is a green school
  built upon sustainability guidelines. Here,
  students will gain practical experience in
  sustainability issues.
• Gyan Anant Vidyalay (GAV) It is a school set up
  in backward rural areas of India to bring
  awareness about the sustainable environment and
  the consequences of resource extinction in the
  next generation.

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Sustainable development is not a one-man show,
but we as a nation should come forward and
successfully implement it. Explaining this, Mr
Pradip Burman says, We are at war to save this
planet, and we have lost a battle. We must win
this war by acting in unison for the survival of
future generations.
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Thank You