About Environmental Concerns

by Sanjukta Singh Earth Care Awards

It is high time for human beings to go green and take initiatives towards saving the earth from major environmental issues. If ignored today, these ill effects are sure to curb human existence in the near future. Engineering developments are resulting in resource depletion and environmental change and climate change destruction. Pollution is not only limited to water, soil and noise but has extended to light, visual, point and non-point sources. Human beings and their actions are majorly responsible for causing all wild and wacky types of pollution. It is partly responsible for climate change also.

Climate change is rapidly occurring due to the ill effects of human actions responsible for disturbing and harmful out comings such as global warming, greenhouse effect, etc. Some of these include melting of Polar Regions, occurrence of new diseases and permanent inhibition in growth of certain plants essential for human survival. Another environmental issue is increase in earth’s temperature due to the effect of greenhouse gases. Without these gases, this planet would turn be cold for life to exist. Global warming can have long-lasting effects which can result in melting of glaciers, climate change, droughts, and diseases.

Therefore it becomes necessary to educate and empower people about Earth Care scenario to create healthy, just and sustainable communities and how to make good earth with the ways to mitigate them across SAARC (The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations. SAARC is an economic and geopolitical organization of eight countries that are primarily located in South Asia. Earth Care Awards, to talk about climate change in convention is one option too. It outlines the need for sustainable use of natural resources and suggests that the protection of resources should be incorporated into national and international systems of law. It has been responsible for the raising initiatives promoting the protection of land resources and water resources as life of people and wildlife depends on it. To achieve that we have to make efforts to conserve, protect, and restore all these valuable resources offered by Earth so that we can save all the living beings at risk.