GLOBAL WARMING: ARE WE DOING ENOUGH?

The answer to the statement above would be yes, in fact we are doing more than enough to ensure that the environment takes a toll, yes you are right a heavy toll a price which our Earth is paying to protect us and I am sure I don’t have to tell you who’s responsible for this. I exactly don’t know where the world is heading towards from now which is 2008 and wouldn’t even want to know it because looking at the present scenario the future seems to be bleak. On one hand we are rapidly growing in terms of technology and wealth and on the other we are losing the charm and the glory of the nature and if you pick up any statistical survey most of this has happened in the last 100 years. Man has become so hungry to earn wealth and power that the four and a half billion year old earth is almost on the verge of extinction and all of this is due to the universally accepted phenomenon “GLOBAL WARMING”

When I take a bike ride by KBR park( A lush green park full of trees and vegetation in the heart of the city Hyderabad) on a mid summer night when the city oozes after it has been staked like a beacon I literally feel as if I have reached an oasis when I zoom by the park. This I believe is a gentle reminder by Mother Nature as to how important trees are for a healthy and cool environment and now with the boom in the real estate industry I see more trees being cut for land leading to a bigger dent in the ecosystem.

This is just one part of the story, other ventures which are blatantly murdering the environment and rising the global temperature levels are the so called multiplexes (parallel cinema) and shopping malls or in many cases a combination of both. In May 2008 I visited Kolkata for a family do and I was advised to visit this mall which was reportedly the biggest shopping mall in Asia. I (along with my family members) paid a casual visit to this mall … OMG I was simply stunned to see how big a mall that really was. The lighting left me mesmerized as if mini sun was installed in there .It would have been even heart breaking to even imagine the amount of electricity it(the mall)guzzled and the Humungous amount of heat it generated.

That mall was the best place to describe the word “wastage” considering the fact that not even fifty percent of India’s population has access to electricity. This is just an example of one mall in one city, just imagine about the hundreds of such malls across all the big as well as small cities in India and maybe thousands of malls across the globe. Oh Boy It is nothing less than mass destruction, destruction of the environment and the earth, the earth we live in and these are just a few examples of how the world is getting ruined by the rise in the temperatures and the list is simply endless.

If we have to survive on this planet we have to start nurturing the earth and understand how important it is to protect it because it deserves so. Remember! Even a small contribution like switching off the light or monitors (especially CRT ones) can do wonders to the environment at least to some extent. I individually practice it in my daily life whenever possible as it gives me immense satisfaction … and believe it or not it does make a difference!