Given what has just happened in Mumbai over the last two days and what is currently happening in Houston, Texas makes many people think about the environment.
The human being is the only living being on the earth that is responsible for the destruction of the environment and therefore is responsible for changes in climatic patterns as well.
Many have commented that countries like France and England are not having snowfall in winter, that countries close to the equator are experiencing higher temperatures in summer than before.
We don't have to look further than our own city, each summer gets hotter than before and lasts longer than before, the monsoon which used to set in by 10 June seems to appear later each year and disappear faster than before.
Such rapid climate change has not been seen 50 years ago. Initially the blam was put on the rise in pollution and deforestation.
But it is more than that - the rise in human population, the desire for a luxurious lifestyle and increasing dependence on technology impacts the environment.
It is time people and governments become more conscientious about what their patterns of consumption are doing to the environment and therefore the climate.
Over the next few days we will attempt to list the ways in which human beings negatively affect the environment
The human being is the only living being on the earth that is responsible for the destruction of the environment and therefore is responsible for changes in climatic patterns as well.
Many have commented that countries like France and England are not having snowfall in winter, that countries close to the equator are experiencing higher temperatures in summer than before.
We don't have to look further than our own city, each summer gets hotter than before and lasts longer than before, the monsoon which used to set in by 10 June seems to appear later each year and disappear faster than before.
Such rapid climate change has not been seen 50 years ago. Initially the blam was put on the rise in pollution and deforestation.
But it is more than that - the rise in human population, the desire for a luxurious lifestyle and increasing dependence on technology impacts the environment.
It is time people and governments become more conscientious about what their patterns of consumption are doing to the environment and therefore the climate.
Over the next few days we will attempt to list the ways in which human beings negatively affect the environment
