Year 2008-The Environment Year

Everyone is talking about global warming, pollution, changing climate etc so thought of discussing it here with all of you. Because of lots of concerns on helping save our Mother Planet and our beautiful Ozone Layer, year 2008 has been given the title of 'The Environment Year' and as many of us might be knowing that United Nations celebrates 5th June as World Environment Day, and this time it was celebrated in New Zealand with the slogan "Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy".

Some astrologers at the beginning of this year predicted that there will be major calamities which will occur in this year.. floods in some regions and droughts in other. I being a non astrologer also predict not only about the on going year but also about the forth coming years that there will be much worse calamities than the ones which have already started to come if we don't take hard steps to prevent the rise in atmospheric temperature(Global Warming).

I am not a member of United Nations nor I have or work for any NGO but would still try to find out some of the reasons on why is there an increase in pollution instead of decrease as this problem is not new and awareness on it started spreading much before ozone hole developed in the south pole.. Yes my friends if you don't know then the ozone layer started depleting more than two decades ago and as a result of which ozone hole developed in Antarctica in 1985. If you want to know exact facts and figures then you can visit NASA's website.

There are various ways by which we share knowledge and try to make everyone aware about the environment hazards and try to justify reasons for changes in climate, like this year in North India monsoons arrived much before.. I sometimes wonder what will happen in July, August and months after that when there will be only scorching heat and no rain following it till winter strikes.. and that comes months after. Certainly drastic conditions will occur.

There were many interesting things which were told at WED whose link is given at the end of this post which takes you to the web site that lets you know about some of the ways by which you can not only save some bucks in your pocket but also help the living beings community all over the world by decreasing pollution and hence decrease in atmospheric temperature. While I will here try to find out some of the reasons instead of ways that why even educated people like me and you could not stop pollution.


We all are very intelligent human beings and love to keep our surroundings neat and clean. As it is clear from the adjoining picture. Its not a far off scene outside the city boundary but instead its a view of a place just in front of my house. A view which is very common to find in India. Its an empty land and people from all over the surroundings find it convenient to throw waste stuff in there instead of moving few steps and throw in a locality dustbin. Its a good habit to keep our house clean but whose responsibility is to keep our locality clean. In India at almost every place I have been to, its the same story whether its a very posh colony or just a locality of few civilians. Any place which is empty for about more than one month it turns into dustbin, bathroom etc.

By doing this we forget that this is not only adding to soil pollution but also becomes difficult to live in such area because of mosquito's breeding in those areas and the foul smell which makes it very uneasy for us to breathe. But what the most interesting thing comes up in the end is that the corporation doesn't care.. the owners should make big boundary's if they cant look after their property.. Why? Because the pollution though caused by us at first place is now affecting us back. Its true there is always 'tit for tat'. What we gave to environment our environment is returning us the fruits of what we planted. So from where does corporation or plot owners come in view?

Come on people.. wake up.. Its we who are to be blamed and in order to improve its we who have to stop it. I haven't done anything much to make people stop because its just not possible to stand right there the whole day and stopping people to throw stuff but what I have done is that in our house we had made it a point that nobody from our house throws anything there and if some neighbour is there who is about to throw we politely say not to do. If the person is intelligent enough he/she understands :) and if not they throw and walk away :(

I know one house doesn't make much difference but it does give you internal satisfaction that atleast you are not the guilty and may be it just contributes negligible one percent but see that one percent is not harming our Mother Planet. What a wonderful feeling it is, don't you think? If you think it is then don't just think but do its not only my Mother Planet its OUR so please help preserve it.. Just like the way you love your house love the surroundings too where your house lives.

Another very peculiar thing we all note is that whenever we go for an outing/excursion etc we pack lots of stuff with us specially eatables like chips, chocolates, sweets, home made food and various delicious mouth watering dishes. Its a good thing.. never rely on outside food for full its not good for our health but what about the health of our Mother Planet? What is not good is after we finish our delicious food stuffs we throw the polythene bags and other waste stuff here and there. It not only disturbs the scenic beauty but sometimes these polythene bags get stuck at water drainage holes and dirty water exit gets prevented by these polythene bags which are thrown by us.

I am sure we all have seen scenes of rain water accumulating on roads in rains and if not then i will put up a picture here in few days as monsoon is going on so easy to get it in few days and if the viewer who intends to view it is lucky then i might get it today :) (What an irony something which is of shame for all of us am here saying it as lucky to get that picture clicked soon. :( )

But in the end for all this we are to blame corporation for not cleaning gutters on time.. When we know that corporation is inefficient then why do we depend on them for the things which can be done by ourself and that also at grass root level by just throwing polythene bags in dustbins provided and try to reduce the usage of polythene bags when we go for shopping or recycle them instead of throwing them away after one usage.

Just imagine if you have a garden in your house would you like to see it full of polythene bags and other stuff.. certainly not.. it pinches to even imagine one's garden in that bad state then why does it not pinches us when we throw stuff anywhere at public places. Is that not a part of our city? Our country? Our Mother Earth?

If we all unite at our own individual level then just imagine how much soil pollution can be stopped. Not too hard just try and think about it and if you think about following it.. will be hard only for the first time but after that it will look as a part of our days job.. an easy peezy lemon squeezy thing to do :)

Will write more about it as a lot and lot more things are coming up in my mind. But due to shortage of photographs which i said i will click myself and display in my blog am stopping write here. But you are not to stop here instead you are to go on the comment link and leave your precious comments on this very delicate matter and do tell about what ways you follow in stopping of spreading pollution.