Developed countries have started going green. Big corporations are going green. A lot of natural gas vehicles are on the roads. Inspections are strict. No question about that. BRIC governments have to take control of the pollution levels as there are a lot of vehicles and factories and mining operations in these countries and they are growing as we speak.I have lived in Kolkata a lot. In winter how many people have suffered buring eyes from the smog? How many people have breathing problems? How many buses and taxis have inspection permits?
Way below the Himalayas, my home district of Angul in Orissa is one of the most polluted places in Asia. Why? Because of open cast mines and coal fired power plants and severe deforestation.Summer temperatures reach close to 50 degree celsius. Do our politicians living in AC houses give a damn about the conserving the forests or think about pollution? Recently Orissa government declined offers to create Elephant sanctuaries as it would create some permit issues for new industries.
Why do floods occur every year in the Ganga/Brahmaputra flood plain? Everyone has to contribute for a greener earth. There is no finger pointing out here. Everyone shares the earth. If you have seen how much a glacier can recede then you would know the gravity of the situation where the Himalayan glaciers are receding. We have to preserve the Himalayas.
RE:everyone should go green
by keseven on Aug 03, 2007 09:19 PM Permalink
I appreciate your great knowledge about India, among the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
I strongly dispute the line "A research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California says the Asian Brown Cloud is more to blame than greenhouse gases, previously assumed to be the villain of the piece." in the light of another line from the same article: "The only silver lining in the smog is that unlike greenhouse gases, which can stay in the atmosphere for 200 years, aerosols drop to the ground after two to three weeks."
But having said that, the great fools of the world are busy fighting among themselves finding who to blame while they should be more focussed on how to tackel global dimming, global warming, floods at most places and droughts where there are no floods...instead of developing countries being blamed by developed countries...enough already.
Idiots of world are in for doom. Wise are few and far between.
About time the world was treated as one unit by both developing and the developed.
RE:The great human divide
by vinnie on Aug 03, 2007 06:50 PM Permalink
You seem to be fool yourself. Greenhouse gases bring in long term problems. They remain in the atmosphere for 200 years and cannot be controlled quickly. So if we start reducing greenhouse gases still it will take long time to eliminate existing one from atmosphere.
Contrary Brown cloud is temporary but dangerous. They have immediate effect on glaciers. So if brown cloud keeps building up it can have devastating effect on entire population. The good news is that we can stop production of brown cloud quickly bring in whole thing under control and hence eliminate its effect.
They both are bad for us. One have long term effect and wider area is covered for its devastation. Second one has short term and regional effect but its intensity is high.
