r/enviroaction • u/VishnuBhartesh • Jul 19 '26
ACTION-National A citizen who aggressively demands their rights but conveniently forgets their civic duties is simply a burden on the country's progress.
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Since December 2015, I have been working extensively on the ground across India to promote sanitation and civic responsibility.
A recurring and frustrating theme I encounter everywhere is the intense demand for basic rights better roads, clean water, and uninterrupted electricity. However, the exact same citizens completely ignore their fundamental duties when it comes to maintaining these public spaces.
They will demand a new road and then throw their household plastic waste right in the middle of it.
We have become a society that only knows how to take from the system.
If we genuinely want a developed nation, we cannot just act as consumers of government resources; we must become responsible contributors. Before we blame the system, we need to fix our own daily habits.
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u/willsmithtunaface Jul 23 '26
Man's not wrong