Dia Mirza Instagram – More Green Please 🦌🌳🐆
Our trees are not martyrs. They were never meant to be.
Mumbai is losing the very life systems that allow us to breathe — in Aarey, along our mangrove belts, across hills, creeks and forests that have quietly protected us for generations. Old growth trees that hold biodiversity, regulate climate, absorb floods and give us oxygen cannot simply be “replaced.” A sapling planted somewhere else does not equal a living forest.
My almost five-year-old understands this instinctively. He knows that when we cut down trees, we are not clearing land — we are erasing life.
And yet we continue to call it development.
If progress demands the destruction of the very systems that sustain us, then we must ask ourselves: progress for whom?
Because the comforts of a few cannot come at the cost of a future that becomes unlivable for all.
Mumbai deserves development that protects its forests, mangroves, hills and rivers — not one that replaces them.
@mybmc we the citizens of Mumbai will work with you and offer you solutions to ensure we make progress and protect nature.
#ClimateAction #ForNature #BeatPollution #SDGs #MissionLife | Posted on 07/Mar/2026 10:58:13
