Earth started off with micro-organisms and godzillas and dinosaurs. But, today the earth is infected with humans, humans and more humans. Number of people increasing, number of houses decreasing, number of vehicles increasing, demand's increasing, demand for plastic is increasing, number of diseases increasing, number of births increasing, number of deaths increasing, increase in the number of jobless, increase in the number of homeless, increase in the number of orphans, increase in the number of suicides, homicides and murders, increase in the number of accidents, increase in the number of marriages, increase in the number of divorcees, blah blah...In a world where there is so much of incrementation, there is only one thing that is decreasing and that is GREEN.
Oh yes!!! You do find ban plastic on plastic bags, we do find do not cut trees advertisement above two fallen trees...This is India people...All i can say is "Jaago India Jaago"...Despite repeated pleas from environmentalists above the damage to the universe due to plastic there hasn't been a decrease in the use of plastic. Plastic is everywhere in our lives. From our mobile phones to our microwave dishes to washing machines. Didn't anyone realize that the carbon in plastic could creep into our food when it is being microwaved??? Forty kilograms of plastic covers were found inside the stomach of a cow in a city at India. Forty kgs??? We get our groceries in a plastic bag, our accessories in a plastic bag, our milk in a sealed plastic cover. Our life is ruled by plastic. A hair clip is plastic. My mobile is plastic.
Leaving plastic apart, the other thing is Deforestation. Felling of trees is so common these days for widening the roads, building a temple, construction of a building... Even to place a hoarding for not to cut trees a tree has to be sacrificed. According to my estimation i guess there isn't much soil left to take in the rain water for the ground water table. There are no tree to hold the soil. The whole natural process is taking a turn. It's missing!!! A tree which gives us what we are breathing is being felled. How sad!!! Would we do that to our parents??? Would we leave them??? A tree must be treated in a similar way. The tree is the reason for us taking a deep breath. Many of us are even allergic to grass. If we spend a few moments on grass, the next moment we start sneezing. SAD!!! We can't even breathe around a natural atmosphere anymore.
Deforestation apart. Genetic food. This is clearly showing people that in a few years or even maybe months, there wouldn't be any fields left which can grow our pulses, vegetables, fruits. Maybe in a few years we cannot go to our villages where our forefathers had fields of mangoes, sweet-lime, oranges, guava...sitting beneath one of the tree with a blanket spread and plucking one of the fresh fruits. Our children would never. Maybe in another 20 yrs we would all be swallowing pills to satisfy our hunger. Is target 2020 this? With no trees, genetic food, life full of plastic, pills instead of meals...Seems scary even to think about it.
Genetic food apart. Our vehicles. Everyone these days owns a car, if not a two-wheeler. Petrol, diesel...fossil fuels...In another 30 yrs cars would be running only on gas or solar power. And after a 100 yrs no one would have even heard about petrol or diesel. It would be history. They would have a small specimen in the laboratory for the kids to see how it smells. There is no coal available around. The coal that is available in the market is the half burnt wood, which gives out loads of smoke and very less heat. Sad!!! The smoke these vehicles emit...they are so dangerously spoiling the environment. The carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide etc etc are reacting with the ozone in the stratosphere and becomes oxygen which doesn't help in protecting us from the harmful UV rays. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) are on rise being emitted from refrigerators, air conditioners, hydroplanes etc. (Check out the link in the labels that i added for more information on CFC's.)
All i would like to say is, let us take an initiative step. Stop using plastic...tell people...stop the felling of trees...tell people...reduce the use of automobiles...tell people...reduce the usage of fossil fuels...tell people...spread the awareness...SAVE THE EARTH!!! GO GREEN!!!
3 comments:
hey awesome,talented girl..I appreciate it..
Really nice article. Well I am reading your posts one after other when I am finding some time. It would have been awesome if you also had given some tips which we can incorporate in our daily life, not the ones which we get in email forwards, but some very simple ones which we can make them a habit in life.
I find this article similar to a Mani Ratnam movie, where in he shows the audience a problem, describes it and comes to an end, say Bombay, he shows the affects and he doesn't give a solution, say Yuva, where he gives a call to clean the political India, he shows the young guys getting elected but he doesn't show what they do.
On the contrary, Shankar's films show you a problem + the solution.
(remember Gentleman, Oke Okkadu, ..)
@ram:thanq for your valuable comments i appreciate you for taking your time off from work and commenting for my blog posts. I can't give people tips on what they have to do. Regarding this article i have given certain guidelines which could follow to avoid many catastrophes. Like stopping the usage of plastic atleast minimizing the use since v literally live on plastic from our mobile phones to refrigerators. and also the pollution from the vehicles it can avoided by using the public transport or organizing car pools. i know its not tat easy but it can be done. and in the last paragraph i did tell people wat they can do.
i again thanq for your valuable comments
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