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The IssueThe 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

The Issue

Global Warming.

The cause

We

What’s at stake

Our very Survival

1 in 4 rooms

Lights on

160 kW wasted

That’s not all

1 in 4 rooms

Computers

800 kW

Jawahar Sagar, Kota

99 MW

We waste 1 MW

Enough to light 9600 homes

Food Wastage in the Messes

Unnecessary littering

Incineration

World at stake

If this continues, 21% of ice caps melting will cause about 20 million people to lose their homes.

The Solution

Salvation lies within

Al Gore

• Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for climate change activist

• GLOBE earth program

•Virgin Earth Challenge

•An Inconvenient truth

• The Grassroots Movement

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

Renewable energy Resources

1. Solar

2. Geothermal

3. Tidal

4. Organic (Solid and Liquid)

5. Wind

6. Water & Ocean

Promises of the EU (European Union)

Future Superpower or non existent India??

Consumption of resources 40% faster than replenishment

What I can do- ask not what your country can do for you but what

you can do for

HUMANITY!!!

The 3 R’s

Reuse

Reduce

Recycle

Switch Off!

The irony of the whole problem- we are digging a grave not just for ourselves

but life as such on earth

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.”

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