Thoughts on climate change

As I scrolled through my Facebook and Twitter feed, I came across a news repeatedly, it is apparent the kind of uproar it has created worldwide. Prior to this day, I had no knowledge whatsoever of Paris Climate Agreement, but this morning I found the feeds flooded as people began to pour forth their opinion against the decision of U.S President Donald Trump to pull back from the Paris Climate Agreement. No one knows the depth of impact such rash decisions will make on the future climatic condition. I found myself frowning as I scrolled through a number of articles, tweets, and posts that are urging States, companies, and individuals to take the responsibility to keep carbon emissions in control in U.S. I believe that without strict governmental regulations such issues can easily go down the drain no matter how hard attempts are made. At an individual level, the contribution is appreciable but negligible if collectively a nation does not take measures to safeguard the degradation of the environment with official rules and laws. Efforts such as planting trees, cleaning beaches, celebrating Earth Day by switching off lights for an hour etc are priceless contributions to the local community, no doubt, but it is as much important for government authorities to make large-scale efforts to control and safeguard the health of our home planet. Let alone a safe environment for next generation, the environmental issues have become a threat to the current generation as much, and if leaders and nations as a whole begin to become blind towards the urgency of environmental issues then that day is not far when consequences of our actions shall become irrevocable (or who knows, maybe it already has). If you watch this spine-chilling research on ice meltdown by New York Times, you will realise that global warming and environment and climate changes are as real as you and me. It is no secret that such dismal changes have already been set in motion, thanks to unheeded actions taken in the past. Now, the only hope we have is to control the pace of such changes, instead of speeding it up. So far as we know, Mars is inhabitable and the prospect of moving out to a different planet is light years away from us, then where will we go when we have dumped our beautiful Blue Planet? If we disrespect Nature, do we think it is incapable to strike back with greater force? A number of major natural disasters have happened in the recent past, why do we refuse to learn that there is something intrinsically wrong about our approach towards Nature? It is a sad truth that we, humans, are forgetful species, we easily get comfortable once the danger is past. I wish History of Earth were a part of school curriculum, as proper history lessons with in-depth analysis and cases studies on climate and environment issues (I am not aware of current curriculum in India. I do remember we had Disaster Management earlier, but it taught how to response when disaster has already happened and not learn from past cases to prevent it in the first place), so that younger generation may learn from such lessons to heed the warning signs and respond positively towards such issues. Indeed, we have a disastrous tendency to discard history, and unless we make an effort to learn from the past and take appropriate actions in present, it would come as no surprise when one day gong starts resounding and our world set on fire.’, ‘Thoughts on climate change’, ”, ‘publish’, ‘open’, ‘open’, ”, ‘thoughts-on-climate-change’, ”, ”, ‘2017-11-03 06:32:56’, ‘2017-11-03 01:02:56’, ”, 0, ‘http://scribblednotes.in/?p=465’, 0, ‘post’, ”, 0),
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