Saturday, May 23, 2009

Its worse than expected

Global warming threatens the life existence of the world. Recently, I read a book " We are the weather makers" by Tom flannerey. In which he has elucidatred the causes of global warming. The mankind has ravaged the mother nature in the last 50 years. Particularly, the global warming has reached its feverish pitch in the last decade or so.

He has talked about the evolution , formation of ice age, forests, climate change and emission of greenhouse gas. Some "concrete" measure must be taken immediately otherwise, the living become a thing of the past on this planet.

The usage of fossil fuels adds up acceleration of global warming. Simultaneously, degradation of rain forests increases CO2 emission into the atmosphere. Melting of glaciers in the artic and antartic region will "swallow' up many archipelagos of the Indian ocean region. Already, the government of maldives "buying" land to resettle its citizens incase, if they become environmental refugees.

The need of the hour is to minimize the carbon emission into the atmosphere and trying to find a solution for the gaping hole in the ozone layer.we inherited this land from our parents we owe a responsibility to gift it to our future generation in the same mannerr.