India and world after Copenhagen

     submitted by: Angadbir Singh

I read this pearl of wisdom somewhere "AS ONE WE ARE A DROP, AS TOGETHER, WE ARE AN OCEAN"
So hence each one of us has to stand up to face this issue gripping the society. Climate change may seem rhetoric but it is the need of the hour.
“We need to stand up, it is not about me or he but WE!”
With more than 6 billion people and ever increasing numbers; the resources are swiftly vanishing- it is just a matter of time if things go on like this. Tropical forests are being cut down for economic reasons and for construction due to increasing population. The main method for clearing land is burning, which releases a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. Thus the damage of deforestation is 45 billion dollars but what about the air we breathe, such large scale destruction of trees jeopardizes the quality of the very air we breathe.
“Nature has enough for man’s need but not enough for man’s greed.”-Mahatma Gandhi
This was rightly said as until now every step of man till date on this planet of ours-The Earth, has been stringing on both sides of a coin. With the rushing expanse of technology we had harmed our own environment for which we are repenting but-the time is now;
When we can choose a path, a path for a greener environment and earth.
The millions of people in countries like India who depends on melt water from mountain glaciers for irrigation; drinking and hydropower could be left scorched. Sometime in the next decade, the polar ice will be thin enough to float. Once that happens and the ocean intrudes, a chain reaction of collapse would follow. Paddy fields in Punjab continue to sweat methane and suck water table dry, while the SEZS have taken their giant carbon footprints everywhere. SO WE Need TO ADOPT NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT-BOTH.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL-WAKE UP!
Since India is still in the early stages of development trajectory, it is better equipped to demonstrate a low carbon lifestyle, which other societies could emulate.
After all, it is not carbon we want, but development. It is not coal we want, but electricity. It is not oil we want, but transport.