How much water do we waste everyday? How much fuel do we burn everyday? How many people per car are present on roads of Delhi? Are we Carbon Neutral ? and many more such questions. Answers for such questions will be negative for most of us. A person uses 135 liters of water and 5 KOE (killogram Oil Equivalent) on average per day in India. Average number of passengers (including driver) in a car in delhi is 1.2 and the final questions 'Are we Carbon Neutral' - No!
But these seems to be issues which need to be discussed by state government and MCD, why are we discussing it here? And the reason as everyone knows is as simple and as complex as always. 'Lack of Committment' Each of the problems mentioned above and many similar problems can be catered by us. Why to wait for goevernment to put charges of emission, or on drinking water or put up a luxury charge on vehicles, when small steps by us can bring these factors in controllable limits.
With advances in technology and science, leading to numerous inventions and discoveries, we are living a far more comfortable and luxurious life, like never before. But while inventing these comforts, we forgot about the discomforts to the environment, combine this with a boom in population & globalization. And we have created a time bomb which is ticking right now and will blow up in near future, if not in your lifetime then in lifetime of next generation.
But, I believe with so many news mediums today every one knows about all of this, everyone of us understands the criticallity of situation, and most of us wants to bring about change, save environment but no one wants to take the plunge, or leave the comforts or worse no one knows what to be done to stop this time bomb. And this is the harsh truth, we at our level lives a quite life as a moral member of the society, we work from 9 AM to 6 PM, we come back to our families, during weekends we go to nearby places, some of us get involved in social causes/ community services, others stays infront of their televisions. Point of the matter is we may not think of doing any thing out of the league, we may not be able to stop the time bomb. But we can still try.
We can try not to waste water, we can try to avoid unnecessary fuel consumption, we can use a pooled car instead of coming alone to office, we can plant trees and keep them safe till they grow up, We can try to promote eco-friendly products, we can discourage buying products from companies which do not care for environment. We can try and take these small steps together. And I am sure when we do that we will see the difference. As Mahatma Gandhi has said
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
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