Global warming needs to be controlled
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls for a reversal of man-made greenhouse
gas emissions, to prevent severe harm to humanity in the decades ahead. The
IPCC’s special report on global warming of 1.5°C, was prepared as a follow-up
to the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The impacts of climate change will be felt on agriculture, health,
water security and extreme weather.
Major progress must be achieved by 2030. Governments should achieve net
zero CO2 addition to the atmosphere. The need for action is urgent. Human activity has warmed the world by
1°C over the pre-industrial level and another half-degree rise can raise the frequency, intensity and
amount of rain or severity of drought. There might also be risks to food
security and water.
India, Pakistan and China are already suffering moderate effects of
warming. The sensible course for national policy would be to fast-track the
emissions reduction pledges made for the Paris Agreement. Save the water this is the first step to
reduce the global warming which is used to individual level. Many of the
uninformed political leaders are oblivious of the serious threat global warming
raises. There is imperative need to expand and intensify the harnessing of
renewables to meet the energy requirements. Unfortunately neither the
governments nor industries are expressing concerns on global warming.
Ironically, they are responsible to a large extent.
We need to take a stock of the production and consumption patterns, huge
amount of garbage generated due to short life of commodities produced these
days and carbon footprint resulting from an economy that completely ignores the
impact on environment. Is the drought and agrarian crisis seen year after year
in many states a result of global warming or man-made choices of reckless and
wrong kinds of crop production? Also our carbon and garbage footprints need to
be reduced at multiple levels- individual, institutional, regional and
national- to make any difference.
The government and political parties are only concentrating on problems
of life of the current generation. They are not having time to look for the
problems in next decade. Since only the politicians are having free time they
should leave the present to people themselves and plan for facing global
warming in 2100.
The climate change from 1cto 2c will create more geographical effect of
either abnormal rain or drought and we have to sustain such effects caused by
our own lapses of emitting carbon both in industrial and social life. The Paris
accord emphasised the green gas emission by countries and accord reached to
control them. But US pulled out from the game and poured cool water on the
proposal. We cannot set aside the El Nino effect generated from Pacific ocean. Global
warming caused by human causes should be addressed failing which the
repercussions will be the worst.
The recent floods in Kerala should spur India to do much more to counter
climate change. The entire programme for building new coal based power plants
needs to be drastically curtailed. The switch to electric vehicles should also
be speeded up. A big push towards public transport is needed. At an individual
level, we could review lifestyle choices, cut back on discretionary travel.
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