Global Warming and Our Survival: Reducing Environmental Damage Through Individual Action
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- 2. The principal cause of the deteriorating environment is mainly Global Warming. It is the continuous accumulation of greenhouse gasses as a result of so called developmental activities
- 4. We
- 7. 1 in 4 rooms
- 8. Lights on
- 10. That’s not all
- 11. 1 in 4 rooms
- 12. Computers
- 13. 800 kW
- 15. 99 MW
- 16. We waste 1 MW
- 17. Enough to light 9600 homes
- 18. Food Wastage in the Messes
- 20. Incineration
- 21. World at stake
- 26. If this continues, 21% of ice caps melting will cause about 20 million people to lose their homes.
- 27. The Solution Salvation lies within
- 28. Al Gore • Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for climate change activist • GLOBE earth program •Virgin Earth Challenge •An Inconvenient truth • The Grassroots Movement
- 29. Kyoto Protocol • “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” • 1997 start and now, 170 countries with 15% reduction in GHG’s •Of all major developing economies, India is least energy intensive
- 30. Renewable energy Resources 1. Solar 2. Geothermal 3. Tidal 4. Organic (Solid and Liquid) 5. Wind 6. Water & Ocean
- 31. Promises of the EU (European Union)
- 32. Future Superpower or non existent India?? Consumption of resources 40% faster than replenishment
- 33. What I can do- ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for HUMANITY!!!
- 35. Switch Off!
- 36. The irony of the whole problem- we are digging a grave not just for ourselves but life as such on earth
- 37. Thank you “We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because it is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced, by far. But it also provides us with opportunities to do a lot of things we ought to be doing for other reasons anyway. And to solve this crisis we can develop a shared sense of moral purpose.”