WE ARE ON THE EDGE – THE CRISIS PART 2

 

After all these destructions, the task to rejuvenate every possible thing which can cause harm is hard, but it’s not impossible. There’s still hope, we can win this war against time, against our own deeds, against our creations we just need to come together, support each other that’s only possible way of winning.

    How can we compensate for what we have done,

• Plant a TREE, the simplest thing we all can do to make a change is to plant as many as trees possible. Trees are those sponges who absorbs and stores carbon in them and give us oxygen, the vital thing we need to survive.
•  Reducing our carbon footprint. We all have carbon footprint, from taking a bus ride to ordering pizza adds to your footprint. If we can make efficient choices and decisions we can reduce it. You can do these by avoiding air travels, imported goods, replacing inefficient product, and so on. 

• Eat less meat and dairy. It will help you achieve your carbon footprint goal and reduce environmental impact. Also a good healthy diet always worth it.

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  PULL THE PLUG! Another simplest thing we know but hardly follow is SAVING ELECTRICITY. Using less electricity, energy-efficient appliances, and powering with renewable sources will pull off few loads from fossil fuel till we find more efficient source.
  

•  Recycle. Recycling is one most efficient way to reduce carbon footprint and saving resources, energy and money.
•  Increasing awareness among people about climate change. An interesting reality is that, we all know about climate change but we choose to cover our ears, close our eye, and wait for someone else to do the thing for which we are equally responsible. "Use your voice, use your vote, use your choice" Al Gore

  Benefits of saving nature,

• An healthy environment. Reduction in extreme heat waves, droughts, scorchers, unexpected rains, floods, melting ice sheets. And having stable and rich environment, who don’t need it? It’s always a win for us if we get to live in healthy environment with nutrients rich veges.
• New job opportunities, Natural climate solutions such as restoring degraded forests could create as many as 39 jobs per million dollars spent, that's a job-creation rate more than six times higher than the oil and gas industry. 

• Better weather forecast. As climate change is rapidly increasing it’s getting more and more difficulty for the weather department to forecast what’s coming. If climate change slows down it might increase the accuracy of weather forecasters, it will also make us more efficient and can save hundreds of lives.
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  The Nature will bloom again. By altering the effects of climate change we can save many lives, many species, even endangered ones and can be able to give them the stable environment they need. And to help the Nature to spread it’s beauty again.

• Natural calamities will reduce, as the climate change begin to slow down calamities like floods, drought, scorchers, earthquakes, sea level rise and others are likely to occur less frequently.

Climate change, environmental destruction, plastic,… are not the causes of evey terrible things happening around us, but the real reason behind it, is US, our creations, symptoms of US, by-product of US, reflections of US. We achieved many things, from splitting atoms to genetic engineering, but we forget the most important law “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction” we created wonders, but choose to cover our ears, closed our eyes and ignored all the destruction they are causing to our HOME.

“The time has come for all of us to stand together and take a pledge, make a promise, a commitment, a assurance to the Mother Nature, to all the species, to Us and to the upcoming generations that we the people, who are responsible for this destructions, deaths, casualties, environmental crisis, and Climate Change will do our best to fix it, rejuvenate it, and maintain it till End!”

Written by - Shriyash Akulwar

Edited by – Pradyumn

WE ARE ON THE EDGE – THE CRISIS - PART 1

https://lifeatliterature.blogspot.com/2021/09/we-are-on-edge-crisis.html

189 countries have ratified the 2015 Paris Agreement, agreeing to limit global warming and adapt to climate change, partly by protecting nature.

 

“Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate Change.” David Attenborough

“Climate change is no longer some far-off problem, it is happening here, it is happening now.” Barack Obama

“we are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” Elon Musk

“Climate change is real, It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing  our entire species, and we need to work together and stop procrastinating.”  Leonardo DiCaprio

“Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.” Bill McKibben

“I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic… and act as if the house was on fire.” Greta Thunberg

“People need to stop financing denial of climate change.”

 Al Gore

“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi

More resources to read

·         https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/climate-action/
·         https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/6-things-you-can-do-to-prevent-climate-change/
·         https://www.nrdc.org/stories/how-you-can-stop-global-warming
·         https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-climate-change/
·         https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/what-can-we-do-slow-or-stop-global-warming
·        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2019/01/02/feature/opinion-here-are-11-climate-change-policies-to-fight-for-in-2019/
·         https://www.unep.org/
·         https://www.ipcc.ch/
·         https://earthjustice.org/
·         https://www.foei.org/
·         https://www.wcrp-climate.org/