Climate Change

 

Climate Change

Okay… this topic has been the talk of town for, I don’t know, decades….? Seriously, this topic will one day be forged in the hall of legends, where onlookers will regret the day that they let their mother planet be reduced to this rag-tag, near death state.

We humans are the apex population of this planet. In terms of the food chain, we might even be the compared to Hercules. But in consideration to the state we’ve converted our planet to… I’m not as sure whether this is going to be beneficial or not. But there is one thing I am 100% sure of: we are destroying our planet… bit by bit. We are the origin of innumerable amounts of problems, for example; deforestation, ozone layer depletion, you name it, you got it. No one’s got as vicious a talent for mass environmental devastation as mankind. 

So, what can be done to prevent this apocalyptic dilemma? Well, there are many intermediates by which the mammoth-like task of conserving the environment can be achieved. First, we can practice reforestation. Reforestation means replanting of trees in areas where deforestation has already occurred. Reforestation has multiple benefits. First, it plays a significant role in reducing the carbon footprint of that area. Second, it also reduces possibilities of floods. Third, it helps in increasing global levels of oxygen in the atmosphere. There are many other benefits, to name a few. But do you know who will be the biggest benefactor out of all this? I guess your GK skills would have told you the answer by now. Us. Now this is a rather ironical situation. How can a species, who destroys the environment for its needs, benefit from its restoration? The answer is quite simple: life. Every single life form, before and now, has its origin from nature. There’s a reason why we call nature ‘Mother’. It provides us with all the necessary conditions for sustaining life. We had maintained a mutual relationship with nature.

This relationship laid the roots for the development of humans. But things go on as they are, then the relationship, already strained to the width of a string, will be strained to the point of no return. So, we need to conserve our environment.

But… there is one more villain left to combat. This monstrosity goes by the identification of ‘global warming’. What makes this issue idiosyncratic is the fact that it’s a global phenomenon. While other issues are confined to some regions and affect mostly that particular area, this ecological disaster spreads from latitude to latitude. What do you expect air to do? After all, air is ever-changing. Global warming has many adverse effects. Ice caps are melting, the layer of permafrost is decreasing by the hour, carbon dioxide concentration in the air is increasing. There are many more such repercussions of our recklessness. In fact, our futility at controlling the emission of the greenhouse gases has put us in such a precarious situation.

I just hope that realize our mistake and work our way towards convalescence and to become good stewards of the planet.