Awareness of Global warming and
threat to life on earth, due to man’s greed and unrestricted exploitation of
fossil fuels has been with us for over decades. During the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 global leaders from 172 countries formally recognized the threat and planned
to bring down Co/Co2 emissions and the Kyoto Protocol (1997) made Nations to take
graded responsibilities, Environmentalists have been crying at the top of their voice ‘Save
Earth’. Actually the Earth will save itself but destroy the irritants, the humans, who are
causing the environmental degradation and global warming.
We must recognize the dire
warnings by Earth to us through climate change, natural disasters of flooding, melting of
ice caps, depletion of glaciers etc. In the climate change summits countries shared their fear and vision to co-operate and take
action to contain global warming, by reducing the use of fossil fuels, and resorting to
solar and other clean energy sources, and reduce consumption of energy and materials and focus
on sustainable development. Governments can make policies and plans, but we the
World citizens have to commit ourselves to the vision & plans.
We must own this world and
environment and protect the same through committed affirmative action. That is where
our ethical responsibility counts. Our present and future citizens must appreciate the
vision and share the vision and action plans and become part of the solutions, as we are
really the problem also.
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