Its fashinable now for every company to have a sustainability agenda and mission statement. Some prodent governments and kind of caring companies are coming out with objectives like 20% reduction in carbon footprint in x number of years.
These are good but must be enocuraged.
But these arent enough. So if we wish to avoid the global peril, drastic steps are needed. Will we take these steps? Im in the opinion that a time will come when we willnt have the choice of deciding if we wish to take these steps or not, we will be forced to make choices and take those steps. Im afraid since governments are not necessarily prodent and visionary, when we will be forced to take those steps, we will have to be lucky to come unscratched and definitely some people will suffer ecomonic hardship resulting from the choices that made.
what am I talking about?
Well, a time will come when short measures and half measure wouldnt be enough and we will have to ask questions like
1. Do we really need coloured water like Pepsi and coke? Should these products be marketted?
2. Does the plastic bags ease comfort of life and shouldnt it be banned?
3. Should we take with soap everyday and aplly n number of cosmetic products everyday? Should their consumption not be rationed and recommeneded for general well being?
4. Should there be something called personal cars? Shouldnt be there only mass trasansportations? Arent there people desparate to move to Singapore inspite of car prices being out of reach for most people?
5. Should people eat meat with very large carbon footprint? Shouldnt it be curtailed?
There can be few more aspects with far reaching consequence.
Drastic issues require drastic solutions. A time will come when climate change will need to be recognised as a drastic issue. Hope we will still have some time to decide and save the planet.
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