Saturday, June 29, 2019

Our environment enmeshed in a battle of Guilt and Guile; the climate change that few lay thoughts on

The climate change that few lay thoughts on

The climate change is bound to reap bad harvest in the years to come what to talk about decades. The air conditioner that we put to use for hours turning to days, the PC that runs for unskilled hours, the car we drive to workplace with sole occupant inside it, the thrust we lay on modern gadgets and a disdain for a green course all of this contribute towards global warming. The unending flights across world with more passengers on board and a wish to hop on to multiple flights is doing no good to environment. The recurring drought with no sight of rain and floods in parts that are spared from drought are all reminiscent of a chapter we would have never cheered to read in our school days.

Seas are going to turn unpredictable every passing hour and more progressive outlook necessarily mirroring progress with change is bound to spew venom as environment despite standing tall and diligent won't be able to take this load and with this frequency.  A delayed monsoon, in some parts of India converting to a no monsoon, million acres of land lying parched, the people struggling to get even a bucket of water a day with reservoirs running empty and at the same time the flood cakes inundating new areas mirror a catastrophic change we the aspirational class has brought about with little thought on how we could save environment from getting enmeshed in a battle of guilt and guile.

A walk to workplace, a public transport system that unfurls craze, a Uber or Ola driven mindset that is undeniably postponed would be a better option than using and reusing fuel guzzling vehicles. Raising a toast to trees, vehicular pollution being kept at bay, visiting countryside that is untouched by modern carts of mischievousness  popularly labelled as frugal living. You have a departmental store here, a ATM outpost there, a gas station here and a health centre there repeatedly tried and tested by buildings of yo yo generation is all recipe for chaos to filter in and things to get worse with each passing minute. Spare a thought that some parts of Delhi would run out of water next year which is not distant and this is enough to raise hackles and hysteria. The water we waste each passing day, the water motor that runs for uncounted hours easily converting to a electricity bill that is mammoth and not minimal, the biggest government hospital (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in the city of Delhi has in its vicinity shades of unpopular support given the high rise buildings that it has been knocked down with and trees running to thousand that were grazed to ground to raise these buildings shows how callous the King and his clan of the preceding years can become. They wish to repeat the same feat by bringing down thousands of trees in a government colony called Sarojini Nagar and raise high rise buildings to let temperatures rise and rise to untolerable limits.

The city landscape is dotted with stories of siege by water, education, sand and building mafia and cess that greets us at every stage and attempt is being made repeatedly to turn countryside to same cagey template. A TV set that runs for hours giving updates on a cricket score, a cricket match that is played in a stadium that has heaps of garbage once stands are vacated, a unipolar world where the sole superpower wishes to nail down an irritant (Iran) and holds back at the last minute as it stores the possibility of unrivalled catastrophe. A world where circle rates in colonies reign high, a civilisation that is fast losing link to every drop of potable water, a school building raised on the back of hefty school fees and a swimming pool that greets every housing complex leave enough individual to cringe. Those smitten by G- 20 summit should spare a though or two on whether this meet should have taken place in the first place and this summit should be held every two years as the money that is roasted in hosting leaders should well have been utilised for welfare measures.

A world where we are moving close to courting trouble every passing day, the less commercial we create a space the more liveable would be the world we chase.

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