One more year around the sun and the going is not so good for our home planet's environment. Latest measures of CO2 show the number at 400 ppm, after 800,000 long years. There is no sign of let up. Strange things have begun to happen like shrubs in the Siberian part of Arctic growing into trees and leading the way to hotter climes. While the Sahel region in AFrica has started to see signs of food security, climate change and conflict come together as thousands of Malian refugees flee from home in search of food and water.
A study found that up to 90 percent people in Niger in danger of running out of food by next harvest! As the heat wave picks up and rain dwindles, those surviving on rain-fed agriculture and pastoralists face a grim future. A more recent study shows that rising water temperature and poor river flow will see a drop of up to 16 percent in thermal power production! Is this nature's way of crying halt to what is bad??
Meanwhile, Environment Day will see many of us paying lip service to the environment. Plant a sapling. Or take a bus to work. Or switch off lights for an hour. The next day will come with its own challenges of running the ratrace, even if it means racing blindly across a road where trees lie hacked for a road widening!
Perhaps, much of the problem lies in the fact that few of us have time to think. If we can take life a bit slower, live each moment fully, maybe we can learn to get more out of less. That could be the easiest way we can reduce our impact on the planet. The Zen way.o we really understand what the Environment is all about? Do we see how closely connected our lives are to the health of the environment? As we consume resources at a rate 35 percent faster than it can regenerate, we are closing the walls around ourselves. It is common sense to anyone that we live in a limited sphere of things. Today we panic as fuel prices go up but fail to understand that the season of plenty is long over. We have been enjoying petrol at a highly subsidised rate actually!
A study found that up to 90 percent people in Niger in danger of running out of food by next harvest! As the heat wave picks up and rain dwindles, those surviving on rain-fed agriculture and pastoralists face a grim future. A more recent study shows that rising water temperature and poor river flow will see a drop of up to 16 percent in thermal power production! Is this nature's way of crying halt to what is bad??
Meanwhile, Environment Day will see many of us paying lip service to the environment. Plant a sapling. Or take a bus to work. Or switch off lights for an hour. The next day will come with its own challenges of running the ratrace, even if it means racing blindly across a road where trees lie hacked for a road widening!
Perhaps, much of the problem lies in the fact that few of us have time to think. If we can take life a bit slower, live each moment fully, maybe we can learn to get more out of less. That could be the easiest way we can reduce our impact on the planet. The Zen way.o we really understand what the Environment is all about? Do we see how closely connected our lives are to the health of the environment? As we consume resources at a rate 35 percent faster than it can regenerate, we are closing the walls around ourselves. It is common sense to anyone that we live in a limited sphere of things. Today we panic as fuel prices go up but fail to understand that the season of plenty is long over. We have been enjoying petrol at a highly subsidised rate actually!
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