’Global Warming’ is the rise in earth’s temperature due to excessive carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released predominantly by human activities. While nature’s technologies of the four seasons have sustained life for billions of years, the industrial processes, agricultural practices, fossil fuel combustion, and deforestation have affected the earth’s machinery and have resulted in causing heat waves, extreme cold, intense hurricanes, tornados, drought, and melting of the polar icecaps.
Global warming is a silent killer affecting every aspect of nature’s function and gradually strangling life on earth. It is perhaps the greatest threat faced by planet earth today. Every individual needs to contribute in an effort to stem this tide by being more aware of the impact of his/her activities. But, for anyone to contribute, ’personality’ is very important and for anyone to have ’a personality’, s/he has to be psychologically and physically sound and socially responsible. Planting trees and developing technology that removes carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can be effective only if the primary source of the problem —human thinking and activity —is controlled. If every individual understands that their use of electricity, water, gasoline, and unwanted products is leading to global warming, and acts to limit their use, then and only then can global warming be controlled. |
