What is it that can save our earth from turning into a pressure cooker? Is it the carbon trading or carbon offsetting or carbon capping that would become the savior of mother earth? Think and you will get the answer.
No matter when the question of global warming erupts anywhere and everywhere in the world, the options discussed are always the carbon trading for all those polluting nations that cannot just say no to their relentless emissions. But, just think, is it the real medicine for our ill earth, made sick by our continuous polluting and pumping of poisonous, dangerous and toxic gases that are warming the atmosphere and turning the earth into a pressure cooker?
We have no rights for either selling the atmosphere or polluting it. Even if the carbon-trading option clicks and succeeds, how much will the earth benefit from it? Will the pollution ever stop? No, it is only that richer culprit nations would excuse themselves from the not polluting the earth notion and enjoy a fruitful, blossoming and burgeoning economy, out of which only few dollars would be paid as ‘fine’ for polluting the atmosphere. Rest all the resurgence of the air would be left to the poor developing nations, who have their own economic and social problems and excuses for pumping the atmosphere with hazardous gases, citing need for development as the reason.
Who will then save the earth? Who will come to the rescue of the earth? Who will save the innocent wild creatures from the claws of a dragon in the form of climate change ready to devour them? Their food habits, migration, incubation, posterity, sexual habits have all changed to a significant extent, harming the natural food cycle, in turn endangering the living cycle.
Carbon trading or offset or capping would not solve the problem. We have no right of privatizing the atmosphere for our benefits. Atmosphere is not a market that can be traded in. The need of the hour is a curb on emissions and not excusing the culprits of environment with fines. Our earth, today, needs our help for sustaining life on it.
Are we ready?
2 comments:
At the end of the day the only things which will make people responsive to the environmental issues will be purely economic in nature. As the non renewable fuel costs keep on rising people will be forced to use alternate means.
Carbon credits too are a way to impose a economic cost on polluting which will work to a certain extent.
As an exception in some cases pure judicial pressure can work as we have seen in Delhi. But then i believe it could be sustained since the transporters realized that they could reduce their running costs by 2/3rd while maintaining their previous costs. Again the economic angle.
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