Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
GO PLANET!
With your powers combined I am Captain Planet!
Captain Planet, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zero,
He's our powers magnified,
And he's fighting on the planet side
Captain Planet, he's our hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zero,
Gonna help him put us under,
Bad guys who like to loot and plunder
"You'll pay for this Captain Planet!"
Haven't we all seen this cartoon at some point of time or other? Were we not inspired to the hilt by the way our hero saved the planet each time from peril? The latest Simpson's movie too attempts to drive in the very same idea of us needing to take care of our atmosphere but are we willing to listen? I suspect we prefer to laugh at blundering Homer's antics and choose to turn a blind eye to the larger issue at hand. Well, thats what i did anyway !!!
The reason i am writing this blog is essentially as a follow up to my friend's blog. It really impressed upon me the vitality of the issue and motivated me to think deeply about a practical solution. You might want to check it out at http://hellsown.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/rain-beauty-of-the-nature-or-its-grief/
What we all are only too aware of nowadays is the fact that our planet is under severe stress caused by mankind's incessant efforts to better himself and which goes under the presumably acceptable guise of "developing the infrastructure". More importantly, What we DONT know is how we could contribute to turning the situation around !!!
I will not waste time raving and ranting about global warming and the global issues at large. Go check out the Green Peace website for that. What i intend to concentrate on is trying to restore some of the beauty which has of late been stripped off a city which has housed me for over the past decade.
Look at the following snaps of developement works in bangalore which have been taken up over the past few years under the pretense of modernizing the IT hub of our nation.
The Hebbal Flyover
The Bangalore International Airport
The Airport Road Flyover
Anand Rao Circle Flyover 
One common thing about all these projects is the fact that innumerable trees have been uprooted to make space for the large cement columns and reinforced concrete bridges. What chance do these gentle trees stand against the might of the machine when it is powered by man !!!
This is just ONE picture of the sacrifices made in order to speed ourselves on to reaching the pinnacle of developement.
Before i digress, let me address the main issue i set out to talk about.
Our city is losing its greenery. Be it flyovers, or the burgeoning business parks, all infrastructure projects invariably end up cutting into the green belts. What are we going to do about it?
It doesnt take long to cry out against government apathy and demand remedial action , possibly even strict stipulations against corporate giants. However this will not reach the right ears until we prove that we not only have a case in point but also have taken some initiative to do something about it.
The need of the hour, as i see it, is simply to help our city get back its greenery. Forget banishing cars off the roads or other solutions like car pooling or advocating public transport. We'll do ALL that later. First lets try and do something about helping the greenery part.
I dont want to sound like a propagandist so i shall refrain from preaching. This might be a really abrupt end to the blog but its for a reason. The reason is to make u wonder what might be the possible ways of contributing to the solution and how the average person could help.
Any comments ?
Think deeply about what i have said. I am sure u will have some ideas.
Regards,
Abhishek.
Ps :: i have not shared any of my ideas as of now as i felt that might stifle the creativity of the suggestions flowing in. I shall surely follow up this post with my suggestions at a later point of time.
4 comments:
Thanks Abhi for continuing and putting a serious thought into what I had thought of....There is no point sitting and crying over things...We need to stand and make a statement....The Green Revolution has to begin and begin right from where we are....
Vinz
A really nice idea, but exactly what do you suggest? stop the infrastructure work and keep the trees?
the infrastructure that is mentioned in the blog is very much required. Without those few flyovers that banaglore has, the traffic would be much worse, could lead to more accidents, and worse tempers than what we currently see.
"under the pretense of modernizing the IT hub" - it may be pretense, I dont challenge that, but I must say it has helped.
In fact, more flyovers are required as the city has grown so vast, and it has grown without any planning.
It is really nice to see someone waking up to the environment threat that we so ignore daily. Hope your ideas will have more to do with making the residential areas greener, as I feel whatever miniscule development that the government is undertaking is very much necessary.
well i think there shud be a balance between the development work being undertaken and the concern for trees. all said and done we do have an infrastrutcure problem,there is a need for better roads ,flyovers and airports. we cannot abandon developmental work all together, it is a necessity to sustain the countries economy and well being. wat i wud suggest is the government should find a way to replenish the trees that are bein felled in these areas someplace else. u cut a tree outta necessity in the cities,then make sure u sow another in a different location!
Hmmm.. i do agree that this developmental work will definitely hamper the environment. but guess there's no way out..
But if v really want to help in some way then there are zillions of ways.
One way i can think of is as follows..
Don't travel alone in a big car to office. Try to pool in so that everyone going to same area can use same transport instead of each coming by their own car..
Wouldn't this way reduce traffic and pollution? This was one of the solutions of the aforementioned problem. wat say?
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