With the increasing population and excessive dependency over comfort and luxury, temperature has gone to such a level that it is showing adverse effects over the entire world. Greenhouse effect, acid rain, increasing sea level and many more effects have made their impact over human race. Well, rise and fluctuating temperature with shifting seasons have made Indian agriculture a hard thing to continue.
Agra is heading to the implementation of a rule that will restrict possession on one car by one household. The step was taken after analyzing the traffic congestion in the district. On the other hand, Agra is listed as 19th polluted district despite anti- pollution measures being followed since last 15 years. Agra is the name that is popular for Taj Mahal, India’s pride. Well, it has also become a bait of pollution and global warming. Its expensive marble is corroding, which is a point of concern for local as well as national authorities.
Continuous bulk emission of CO2 and approaching threat of global warming has made the government to take steps in favor of environment and for continuance of the human race. Excessive emission of these toxic gases has led to several changes and some top agencies have alerted that it will make more harmful changes in future.
One of those largest glaciers has lost its largest chunk due to increasing temperature. NASA has also predicted a sudden rise in sea level, which can be dangerous for ecology. About one meter rise in sea level in next 100-200 years have been reported. Estimation states that nearly 150 million people are living in that range of one meter that will be occupied by the sea in upcoming years.
India has to learn lessons from other nation who are forwarding to reduce greenhouse gasses and reducing temperature rise.
Netherland railways have declared that it will power 50 % of its trains with wind by the end of this year and all its trains by 2018. Wind power is one of the best sources to reduce pollution and this initiative can be a good thing for India to make its air cleaner.
Another report in America revealed that about 30,000 mines of America are leaking toxic wastes into waterways. The toxic waste is estimated to be approx. 3 million gallons. Old mines have polluted 1600 miles of rivers and streams.
India has also moved ahead in same path planning to launch a pilot project of providing charging points on petrol pumps for electronic vehicles in order to support the use of electronic vehicles in the country. The project is currently planned to implement on pilot basis and if the project got good response, then government will take further steps to make it compulsory.
Many ecofriendly ideas are emerging daily in many countries to overcome the common problem. Using in-exhaustible sources can give better results with long lasting effects. Initial months of this year was seen bad for the farmers because of irregular rain and draught like situations and even some areas of India faced wrath of flood and hard rains creating problems for people. These all are the outcomes of increased pollutants in environment in different forms.
