Your Contribution To Nature’s Instability And Ways To Rectify It
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What’s the basic rule of nature? Each and everything is happening in a particular rhythm, the seasons, the day and night, the eclipses, the tides; everything is balanced; but, is it going to be same in the years to come? Anyone would definitely say a strong no as we already have started feeling the pinch of climate change.
What’s your contribution to nature’s instability?
To say it in simple words, the more you exploit nature for your sustenance, the more you are contributing to its instability. The more you consume energy, be it electricity or fossil fuel, the more you are making nature unbalanced or what the scientists call it – greenhouse effect.
How will nature retaliate to maintain balance?
As the temperature increases, the volume of matter increases. This applies to the water in the oceans also. Water in the oceans expands due to elevation in atmospheric temperature which is further aggravated by melting of ice in the poles. The consequence of both of these actions – inundation of the coastal land which includes heavily populated coastal cities around the world that just a feet of rise of water in the oceans will make life a hell for many.
The other consequence of global warming is altered precipitation pattern. As the earth’s surface temperature increases, the evaporation rate from water resources also increases. Note that all the vapor is not getting escaped out of the atmosphere to some other planet but floats in our own atmosphere and it has to come back to earth condensed as rain at some point in time. As the quantity of vapor is heavy due to increase in temperature, the downpour too will be heavy causing floods and famine in one portion of the earth and drought and famine in another portion thereby affecting our basic existence. The food grain production will drastically reduce over the next few years due to climate changes.
The nature has to maintain its balance, else it will shiver itself to regain the balance, the result – mass destruction. Unless we act now to preserve the balance of the nature, the nature will act itself, but then we may be the losers.
What can you do on your part as an individual to avert climate change?
It is worth to note now that even if we abruptly stop all the emissions from today, it will take another 30 years for the earth to return to its normalcy. We’re already locked up in a trap. So unless we start acting now at least, things are not going to be the way it were. Change has to come from individual level.
- Start thinking of leading a minimalistic life, something close to the nature.
- Think all the ways that could bring your energy bills down. Be frugal in energy expenses. In order to bring down per capita consumption of energy, whenever possible, use public transportation systems than your own vehicles. Note that cycling and walking is good for your heart and perhaps losing weight too.
- Don’t waste food. Every calorie of food takes ten to produce be it veg or nonveg. To produce a kilogram of meat, you need to the feed the poultry/animals around 3 to 10 kg of grains/vegetables that would have been eaten by us. Agriculture all around the world is responsible for nearly as much total greenhouse gas emissions as all forms of transportation put together, so it shouldn’t actually be so surprising that the food choices we all make have a big impact one way or another. It is worth to note here that half the food produced in the USA is currently being thrown away.
- Preserve the left over forests. Try to plant as much trees as you can.
- Think of switching to renewable energy resources where ever possible.
Save the nature, save the planet.
I could hear you asking “It’s easy to preach than act! What have you done for your part to avert global warming and climate change?”
Fine, I didn’t wait for Blog Action Day 2009 to inspire me. For my part I’ve planted around 100 trees three years back and converted a small piece of barren land into a grove as on date and am still awaiting more such opportunities. Hope you too will act from now on.
