Question 9 to 13 out of 13
a) If there are any creatures on this planet which can reuse carbon, in the form of carbon
di oxide, an important green house gas, they are PLANTS,particularly trees. So if we plant trees, we would be directly involved in increasing the number of these 'carbon sinks' on the planet, which inturn would reduce carbon concentrations in air.
Thus, planting trees has got to do a lot in controlling unpredicted climate change!
b) We have this person called Mr. N.Sai Bhaskar Reddy who has invented a stove called 'Good Stove' which is extremely efficient.It uses less fuel (NOT FOSSIL FUEL), produces more heat and produces no smoke. For the fuel, he has made briquettes made out of waste paper and dry biomass such as twigs, leaves etc.And for making these briquettes, he has invented a briquette maker, which squeezes the bio-waste pulp and gives it a shape. In fact Bhaskar Reddy sir has conducted a session for us and taught us how to make briquette and even the good stove.He is using these stoves extensively in rural areas of our state.He strongly believes in open source technology, and his knowledge is shared by him in the web. We can see the video clippings of his inventons, latest and previous, by visiting his blogs. All you need to do is to type 'nakka sai bhaskar reddy', or 'good stoves' or 'briquette maker' and allow your search engine to do the rest!
In the country like Swiss, people seem to be very sensitive about the issue of climate change and they seem to be taking the responsibility of contributing their bit individually. Hence our partner class probably found it difficult to name any climate heroes as such.May be because each one of them is a climate hero in his or her own way!
So our expectations from these climate heroes is just what they are into.That is , each one of them trying to simplify their life styles and thus influencing fellow citizens to use resources in a sustainable way. However, they also need involve in many local issues considering the diversity in geography,culture and ethnic values of the people over here.
Yes, this is our moment..and moment of what? Environmental crisis??? But we cant just keep blaming others and wait for things to change miraculously. So we would say this is our moment of actions. Actions against too much of consumerism and actions for waking the climate hero present within each one of us!
Perhaps we thought that we would be heroes some day! Heroes of our respective lives. And now we got a chance to become heroic children of the mother earth as well.So we are ready to think on all possible directions to protect her and make her sutainaible.
We feel there is no much difference as far as the impact of all this statistics is concerned.For whether you are a person who make up the stastics, or a policy maker, or may be even a policy breaker... or just the people....climate change is not going to spare any one!!
But there is a difference as well in terms of sensitivity towards the issue. The individuals who make up the stastistics surely know that some thing is seriously going wrong due to certain specific reasons.While the people, particularly those who know nothing about all this do usually feel that something is wrong because of unknown factors and they simply are the scapegoats.But its high time that we accept the fact that humanbeings have made scapegoats of themselves...intentionally or otherwise.
This question mostly points towards the need to understand sustainable development, so as to meet the needs of future generations.And hence the present generation needs to avoid overuse of resourses and material around us.
Question 9 to 13 out of 13