(IN): Should it be World Environment Dooms Day?

June 8, 2009

Should it be World Environment Dooms Day?Thursday, June 4, 2009 15:10 IST

Its a personally frustrating situation for the most of the environmentally

conscious individuals. Everyone who agrees that there is something wrong

with our environment doesnt know exactly what can be done to undo the

damage. We all know what is causing damage, but none of us are in a position

to prevent it.

None of the NGOs, voluntary organisations, governments or even United

Nations' set-ups have been effective in restraining exploitation of

environment the world over. There is no power on earth which can ask the

United States to curb or reduce the consumption pattern. In a liberalised

economy the boost is on improving lifestyle and consumerism, which

necessarily means dumping more CO2 in the environment.

Currently, we, nearly six billion human beings are having an environment

footprint which is bigger than what the earth can support. The tolerance

levels are long past. We are in a deficit scenario where the consumption and

pollution patterns are accentuating destructive natural processes like

sea-level rise, melting of Arctic ice, falling tree cover and so on.

So what we do next? Live happily with closed eyes and a sinking feeling?

Keep blaming the governments, industries and others for bringing a hell on

earth? This is not a piece to exhort you to use toilet flush less often or

control the flow of water in your taps or planting some trees and so on. One

needs to explore far more effective ways to bring a change.

To begin with, everyone needs to become a saviour of earth. (Needless to

remind that charity beings at home - be your own saviour first!) Identify

two people who need to be made ecologically sensitive. Adopt them as your

targets for influencing their thinking, way of life and concerns about

environment.Make it your business to study their behaviour, figure out their

insensitivity towards the environment. If you succeed in bringing some

changes, you would have succeeded in bringing about a change. What's more,

promise yourself to turn them around into replicating the same phenomenon

with others.

If you found this idea ridiculous, please shoot something more effective.

That's the idea!

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