Does knowledge drive lifestyles? It is a clear NO, when you go by a survey done in Bangalore on energy conservation. Even the authorities who preach audits and conservation find it tough to get an energy audit on their premises!
A senior Bescom official said that a recent survey found that 79% of domestic power users in Bangalore were aware of methods to reduce the consumption of energy. Despite the knowledge, power consumption remains high in the city. An energy-extravagant lifestyle and cheap energy could be the reasons for this indulgence. How can change be brought? How can energy efficiencies be promoted? Are power shut downs the only way?
Efforts to spread the message are not totally absent. For example, last Saturday saw a city-wide initiative that recalls the Earth Hour, a global campaign that saw lights going off across the world in a bid to save electricity. ‘Batti Bandh Bengaluru’ was organised by Idea Cellular, Radio Indigo, The Energy Resource Institute, Greenpeace and The Indian Youth Climate Network. It was ‘powered’ by the city’s college students. Not all citizens switched off, but well, even a few making the effort is good news!
But again, if knowing is not enough, will campaigns work? Or raising the price of power?
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True, knowing is just not enough. It merely adds on a few more grey cells, nothing more. Otherwise, we would not be destroying the environment when we know it is bad for us. We wouldnt be splurging on private transport just knowing how it all adds to the carbon pile up. We wouldnt be sending our children to schools where they are moulded into non-thinking individuals that mereley rote-learn! We know nothing matters as much as living the moment to the full, yet we either are lost in the past or chasing dreams for the future! We know so many things, it makes no difference to the way we live.
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