Tuesday, April 24, 2012
HUMAN ANGER CAN BE COOLED, BUT NATURE’S FURY CANNOT BE FOOLED….by GREENYATRA
Our planet and world is
one. All nations are just components of it. Often environment problems that
have a local impact need to also have global implications to qualify for
international concern. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud
forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming
clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing
heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. The level of these heat
trapping gases, also known as greenhouse gases (GHG), are increasing day by day
with the constant burning of fossil fuels and other GHG emissions—humans are
enhancing the greenhouse effect and warming the Earth.
Scientists often use
the term "climate change" instead of global warming. This is because
as the Earth's average temperature rises, winds and ocean currents move heat
around the globe that affects the earth’s climate in different ways; it cools
some areas, warms others, and changes the amount of rain and snow fall. Although
social and economic development is essentially a national issue, its
advancement can be a global concern. Furthermore, environmental disasters are
not local in their consequences, such as the sulphur emissions from the
American steel mills come down in the form of acid rains destroying the
Canadian forests, while the toxic industrial effluents discharged into the river
Rhine by the chemical units in Switzerland poison the drinking water in Holland;
the radioactive waste in the Ukraine contaminates the vegetables in Sweden; power
stations in England and Germany pollute the lakes and trees in Norway; tree
felling in Nepal leads to flooding in Bangladesh; the Chernobyl blast made the
milk of the cows in Scotland undrinkable; and the CFC emissions in the north
cause skin cancer in the southern hemisphere.
You represent millions
of people around the world who are committed to protecting the global
environment—our air, water, soil, plants, animals, ecosystems, and climate.
Green Yatra is motivated and united by beliefs of protecting the environment
for ourselves and for future generations.
The Green Yatra
movement is deeply concerned with the growing problem of climate change. Each
and every individual can contribute to the “Green Yatra” initiative in a number
of small and big ways. Listed below are some methods by which we all can follow
without any difficulty:
§ Plant trees
§ Gift plants instead of flowers
§ Use Public Transport/ carpool/ Alternate fuel
§ Always carry a re-usable carry bag
§ Use energy saving equipment
§ If possible, use laptops instead of desktop.
§ Consider using solar energy for lighting,
heating, etc.
§ Conserve water – attend to leaking water taps,
water plants late evening or early morning, use low flow shower heads, etc.
§ Take print-outs only when necessary.
§ Try to pay bills etc. on-line.
for more notes, keep visiting our website www.greenyatra.org
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