Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Blog Action Day, About the Environment

Today i'm writing for the entire world as i registered in the mass event of blogging about climatic change and global warming, its named as Blog Action Day!!!, its interesting as we observe that people has a general knowledge about the problem it put forward but most of the countries hesitate to do something about it...
more of this event can be seen at www.blogactionday.org and i would really like to thank them for their enthusiastic approach towards it.

when i was a boy i used to look to the sky and wonder how many stars were there in the sky, it always amazed me how everything is created and connected. we, humans are one of the latest thing to appear in earth but we control everything and man has made his impact on history of himself and as well as on earth.

the first pieces of info i got in this topic was from science books, as everyone knows today "because of the rise in CO and other greenhouse gases in atmosphere, the temperature rises". the green house gases trap the solar radiation that is emitted back to the space by earth, which is retained by these gases and it warms up the globe and this is a wonderful thing in an aspect, for its the one thing that makes our life possible here and it stabilizes the climate here but the whole process goes wrong when the concentration of such greenhouse gases increase and hence more heat is circulated in atmosphere and the rise in temperature thus produced creates a global chain of events which are detrimental to the earth and its inhabitants.

i was uncertain about what should i write on the topic, it could get easily all technical and lose the purpose of general reading.. its a massive subject with a lot of ideas and information. its everyone's responsibility to take his or her part in this initiative, it doesn't matter race or color, so thought of limiting the technical side to a lesser extent...

what will happen if the temperature rise 2 or 3 degrees??? the polar ice caps will melt and many cities and places we know today will be lost for ever and the economic and social problems like migration from the affected places, scarcity of food and shelter, poverty, diseases will be shooting up and to control such problems a lot of money is needed.

i know many people here still believe such things will never happen in earth or god will protect us from all calamities, but i see it as lame excuse. if the ice caps of poles were to melt the resulting chain of events will not stop with a rise in the level of see by 20 meter or something, it will continue, it disrupts the wind formation, the ocean currents either stops or change its course because of dilution in salinity of sea, as a result of these changes the global precipitation distribution is further gets damaged and drought will be higher in one part of world while floods will be in the other side..

the effects of global warming are starting to show up in our life, the more drastic changes are only predicted but it could actually happen anytime and it wont give us time for preparation and restoration, so we have to act beforehand and since its a global threat, i believe the change should begin from each and everyone of us.

planting a tree whenever you can is quite simple, the usage of coal, petroleum and other fossil fuels should be reduced, electricity should not be wasted, the usage of freons should be minimized, unconventional energy sources like solar and wind turbines should be used, more efficient engines should be manufactured by companies,hydrogen fuel cells can be an alternate to internal combustion engines... there are more you can do but all you need is a vision about the future, a dream that is fulfilled only with the cooperation of everyone in this planet, its for you, its for me, its for the generations to come...

Tom Robins V.S

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