Dont be a fossil, fuel the change ………Mansi Choksi | TNN
How often do you allow a wafer packet to flutter to the road when no ones looking? Or leave the lights in the bedroom on for hours because youre too lazy to free yourself from the couch in the living room? Do you and your spouse drive two cars to work although your offices are within kissing distance?
On an individual level, little lifestyle lapses may sound like mere pinpricks, but when taken collectively, they become a towering inferno that joins the war against our wounded planet, which is melting at an unfathomable and alarming rate.
According to the chairman of the Nobel prize-winning UNs Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, the estimated increase in global temperatures and subsequent rise in sea-levels could cause more than 250 million people to suffer from acute water stress (in terms of displacement, injury or death) in a few decades.