Its very heartening to know that Sadhguruji has raised the issue of reviving and rejuvenating the rivers with 'Rally for Rivers' campaign,but people may want to know what is the plan of action .Basically rivers are nothing but carriers of rain water and hence we can't actually control them, depends more on the climatic conditions. Increasing the forest coverage and planting trees along the riversides as suggested by him may help somewhat.
We are presently facing serious green house effect through burning of fossil fuels and made the earth more warmer which could have disastrous consequences like loss of snow cover, sea level rise, change in weather patterns. Many scientists believe that the damage to the Earth's atmosphere and climate is past the point of no return, meaning almost irreversible.
Atmospheric CO2 levels have increased by more than 40 percent since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, from about 280 parts per million (ppm) in the year 1800 to 400 ppm today.There was a landmark Paris agreement on climate change effective from Nov. 4 2016 to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Controlling and reducing the use of fossil fuels and the urgency to go for renewable energy is the need of the hour.
India has another big problem on hand, severe river pollution , Majority of Indian rivers are polluted because of industrial and human waste,particularly the Ganges . Our immediate concern must be to stop polluting the rivers and start cleaning them which requires massive effort from the government ,industries as well the people. Reducing consumption or usage of a polluting products,treatment of wastes, discharges and disposals of a pollutants. Govt. need to shutdown all the industries causing the river pollution or have strict guidelines for the industries to treat the pollutants and have proper waste management.
It is time for concerted action by world leaders on climate change . The climate change certainly made Harvey and Irma worse though they are not caused by climate change. Hurricanes thrive over warm water and strengthen in intensity, oceans have warmed on an average 1 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit. Climate change is a harbinger of doom.Time to act or face the consequences.
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