The Last Call

The BREAKING NEWS of today is more or less centered around the mayhem that the weather is causing. Be it the recent snow blizzard in the USA or the hurricane Sandy. People are dying of cold, a cold that was never witnessed in centuries. Every time the nature hints us that we have taken yet another step towards the extinction life that is thriving on the blue planet. The carbon emission is causing global warming which is the primary reason for what is happening around the world. Much of the population of the United States already has been directly affected by climate change through the air they have inhaled over the last few decades and that; of course, the health effects would grow worse if temperatures continue to rise. China and America lead in contributing to the carbon emissions of the world.

Global warming is rising at an alarming rate and it has quite some agents adding to its acceleration  One of them being deforestation which is dangerous. Deforestation is easy, we zero in on a particular patch, cut the tress, use the wood and there you go, you have an area to construct your next concrete jungle. The Flaura and Fauna of that area become extinct and you know how large this area has become. The animals are going extinct; the air is getting polluted day by day, polluted to the limit that people in China have to wear masks in their daily routine. Can it get any worse? Apart from the cows that you count sitting right in the middle of the roads in India, they are in the list of endangered species too!

We had never known so many air born, water-borne and land-borne diseases. Some of them are as new as the magazine kept next to you. Why? Only because we have been exploiting and raping Earth of all its natural resources to an extent that it is now calling out for help, giving out signals that it can’t bear the load anymore, but we are deaf to such calls. We are continuing our ‘noble work’ of  increasing the population, over grazing the lands, polluting the rivers, adding to the carbon emissions, testing nuclear power and the list is endless. All this explains the rising number of floods, famines, earthquakes, storms, etc.

The Earth is keeping you alive, it has given you life and what are YOU doing to keep it alive? Nothing but you are making it die a slow painful death. Every summer you see the heat breaking records, the winters are accompanied by breaking of some even new records. When it rains, it rains too much, other times you yearn to see even a drop of water. Why this adversity?

Right from the farms where the pesticides are used way too much to the big cities which produce toxic waste to the scientists who are producing nuclear waste to that old lady who empties her dustbin into the open are beneath her window, we all are contributing towards our own death. Why are we so ignorant?

I am a small part of plant a sapling a month, a small step, but an effort to reduce my carbon footprint on this planet. I switch off the electricity when not in use. I prefer using the public transport even though I have a personal car. I prefer buying Baggase paper to wood paper. I don’t keep the water running while I am singing to myself in the bathroom. These are some of the small things I do to balance out my ‘sins’ because I am sure I am contributing to the pollution some or the other way. I can’t completely stop that, but I can do my bit to balance out things.

The Earth is making a Last Call, crying out for help. Its loud this time, I can hear it. Can you?