When I was in school every Diwali I used to think that its just this year that I would burn crackers and stop it from from the next year , I also thought nothing significant could happen if me alone dint burn crackers and what was the big deal in burning them and if it were also , for me it was very insignificant in front of the few second joy I got by burning them . But when I came in college and was made to read compulsorily about the problem of global warming and was shown instead of “munna bhai” a video projecting a melting ice berg in the Antarctic ocean , it really bothered me because I came to know that if it were too late to be stressed upon the place where my college was would be submerged in water . and then I realized how important were my principal’s speeches’ informing about the harmful effects of cracker emissions on the environment . what I have noticed all throughout is that only speaking or writing about it doesent help. Just like me there are many who don’t get influenced by speeches and articles as much as by movies depicting the same . keeping that in mind I have arranged for some pictures depicting the past and present state of the huge icebergs . before showing you the pictures let me just brief you about what global warming actually is? and what do the ice caps help in ? . Global Warming is the accumulation of access of carbon di oxide in the atmosphere which traps the sun’s heat . and due to that trapped heat the ice bergs melt . Now to move on let me tell you the usefulness of ice caps . these huge masses of ice caps act as a mirror and reflect back the rays of the sun , when they melt the suns rays fall on the water and as water is a good conductor of heat and electricity it traps it and gets warm . and that changes the total weather cycle it starts raining heavily where it doesn’t and doesn’t rain at all where it is expected to .
To warn you .. the scientists have predicted that we have just 9 years in hand to reduce it and after that it would do so much harm that we could not help it .
I think this was enough for you and if not then please log on to google and please put some of your precious t.v watching time in researching on Global Warming .
Understand my dear friends STOP blaming each other and waiting for others to act ….. why don’t you start it …..let it be small scaled let it go un noticed by people but remember nature would surely notice it . please keep one more thing in mind crackers are not only responsible , there are many that couldn’t be listed due to space constraint , find them out and do some thing about it ……..START doing now because every second counts…………………………. still counting………….
One more thing to be highlighted is that when I was in school I thought that if I dint burn crackers , used public transport instead of personal vehicals my pals would laugh at me , and I know you all must also be facing the same problem….then at that point of time when the laugh at you have pity on them and condole them on being ignorant and mentally poor …. And always keep one thing in mind what you are doing is to save the earth from a massacare and what they are doing is to keep up their fake image….
Also note that crackers are not the only ones causing the harm there are many . I cant highlight them because of space constraint…but do find out more about it by researching on it and get the time to do so by cutting down some time from t.v watching and gaining all sorts of crap from it .
Now you must be thinking that I am preaching and not practicing but let me tell you that this is one of my contributions to help the nature i.e by creating awareness .
ACT NOW……….
Mahatma Gandhi once said “ EVERY JOURNEY ALWAYS STARTS WITH A SINGLE STEP ”
SO TAKE IT……….
Thankyou
Shridhar Mehta
1st year (5 yr course)
Government Law College , Mumbai
the author is a first year student at the government law college , mumbai . he has done his 12th from delhi public school , jodpur.
