Climate Change: Its for Real!

1. Monsoons Shift by 2 months.
2. Unprecedented Floods in Draught Prone North Karnataka/Andhra
3. After being declared a draught state we have a possible flood situation in UP.

If this is not climate change then what is!

I think Indian Government's expectation that developed countries take the lead in solving this problem is very short sighted. It is high time we accept that our doing or not, we are going to be affected by it. In fact our population is going to be the most effected by it. Climate Change is real and we have to do something, anything!

For a country like India it is an opportunity to take the lead in sustainable development. It is an opportunity to make the west follow us in 50 years time. Innovative ways to fulfil our energy needs, Protecting our bio-diversity among other things are need of the hour.

The trick is to take climate change as an opportunity to bring the next revolution instead of thinking it as a hindrance to our growth.

What is depressing is that I haven't heard/seen any media mention of linking any of the above incidents to climate change:( Its high time we get going. Any politician listening?

P.S. All those who are with me in thinking, Gandhi was wayyyyyyy ahead of his time, say aye!

Change: A Short Story

There were four friends, 1 chick who is militant in her environmental beliefs and is ready to kill humans to save even a canary, lets call her MM. 1 guy who is a darling of his friends, makes people laugh but has a troubling habit of forgetting. Amongst the things that he has managed to forget is his bike in the college, his car at the metro station and once both at the same time, he is called PP. 1 dude who besides being extremely smart and sexy is also funny,caring and passionate. His name is SSS. The last old fellow, well, his friends used to call him Adolf. I think that is a description enough :)

So these 4 friends went on a trip.For those who don't know, MM is a little radical about not buying mineral water bottles and soft drinks. PP on the other hand does not share similar sentiments. What ensued was a battle of wits between MM and PP. MM not letting him buy bottled water and PP making fun of MM not letting him buy bottled water. Not to say this was turning out to be a fun trip for SSS and Adolf because of it.After Having Filtered water for 1 day and witnessing 1 sealed water bottle thrown in the trash by MM(that is a separate story and the author encourages its readers to pursue MM or PP to know more about it), PP finally asked MM why she is doing what she is doing.

Shocked at realising that PP has no idea why MM is like that, SSS went about explaining the reason. He told him that for every 1 litre of bottled water 3 litres of water gets wasted in the filtering and processing of it. He also explained the impact of all the trash that gets generated in the form of plastic bottles. Adolf added the humans are trashing 11000 plastic bottles every second. It was also brought up that these bottling plants are set up in agricultural areas where these plants get water supply by boring. As a result the water table levels nosedive, making water unavailable to the local farmers forcing them to migrate to cities and increasing the urban poor population. The impact of soft drinks is similar if not worse. Not to mention the profits which these companies are making on resourcesto live happily ever which they get almost for free.

Listening to all this PP converted. Not only that he also promised to convert more and more people.

To end the author can say, And they drank happily ever after :P , but the "ever after" will depend on whether we as a whole are able to stop ourselves from using bottled water.