Climate Change

The term climate change we often see in the news by our politicians, social worker, and scientists to represent a modern-day crisis of average global temperature rise with respect to the pre-industrial era, reports of IPCC projects the average temperature may rise by 2° C by the year 2100 and rise in the average sea level of 3 cm. Apart from sea level and temperature rise, we observe several other effects as well such as extreme weather events, frequent flood, droughts, cyclone, crop failure, forest fire, and many more. One must think the possible reason behind the climate change, and unfortunately, the reason is us, The humans, most intelligent species of the planet, excessive use of fossil fuel, and rapid industrialization produces greenhouse gas (gases which traps the heat within the atmosphere e.g. CO2, CH4, SF6, etc). Seeing climate change as a possible threat, Internationally several summits took place such as Earth summit at Rio, Brazil 1992 which laid the road map to counter climate change with an initiative like Sustainable Development, 1997 Kyoto protocol, and recent Paris summit 2015. Now the question is, are these initiative enough to address the global challenge, the main drawback for these international agendas are no legal backing to enforce the decision taken in the summit. Now it's up to each and every individual to understand the severity of the problem and address the problem in a more scientific and logical way, reduce the dependency on fossil fuel and look for more renewable and clean energy sources such as wind and solar energy. Planting trees that act as a carbon sink, one of the quotes I have seen a few days back has a wonderful message that says "Humans are the only creature on the planet which cuts the tree make paper from it and write on that paper SAVE TREE". Instead of holding a placard and blame game we need people to people Participation work for the betterment of the planet and environment, Earth is our home but we aren't the only one who resides here. In the end, I would say if we claim to be smartest on the earth time to prove it, "work together, live together".