India’s Position in reducing the Global Warming…
December 4, 2009 General, Life
My dear Friends…
United States of America has recently announced it position on reducing the Global Warming. It will reduce 18 percent of what greenhouse gases it emitted in the year 2005. China has also announced that it will reduce 35 to 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emission. Now, India is in a position to announce something in line with these countries.
But, if India tries to reduce 40 percent of what the greenhouse gases it emits today, it has to lose its technological growth and expend a lot. India gets 75% of electricity production through thermal power plants. The amount of carbon dioxide emitted from these thermal power plants is very high. However, trying to close all thermal power plants or reduce the electricity production is not possible.
Though India could generate electricity using solar power to reduce the thermal power plants, it would cost in billions of dollars. Even though UN can facilitate half of this cost to India, it will not be greatly beneficial to facilitate new electricity production methods.
If India tries to reduce the carbon dioxide emission from industries, it has to implement new technologies in the industries to replace conventional technologies that emit carbon dioxide. Even then, to encourage industries to adopt new technologies, it has to provide deductions and other benefits to industries which reduce the income from industries and it might be an obstacle for growth plans.
While India tries to face these issues in every way possible, we, as Indians can reduce the global warming by some ways. We could reduce the consumption of electricity, usage of vehicles, usage of AC halls and air conditioning equipments. More than these, a human being can do more good to the earth by simply becoming a vegetarian.
Recently, our Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Mr. Jairam Ramesh stated a true fact that we can reduce global warming by not eating cattle meat (beef). Mr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair person of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of UNEP who received Nobel Peace Price shared with Al Gore on behalf of IPCC, has also been voicing on this at various conferences across the globe.
He states that one kilo gram of ignored cattle meat helps to reduce 36.4 kilo grams of carbon dioxide from being emitted. This is not just a statistics, it’s a possibility in every day life. This statistics is calculated based on the number of trees that are destroyed to grow cattles, transportation facilities used for transfering cattles and their meat and air conditioned equipments used for preserving the meat.
The days when meat shops are very few and only open in certain days were gone. Now a days, we can see meat shops and biriyani shops at every turn of the roads in all the days. In the year 2006, totally 28 crore ton of meat is consumed around the world which is 5 times greater than what was consumed 50 years ago.
Vegitables, fruits and grains cultivated in one hectare of farm can feed 30 persons for a whole year. But the meat, milk and eggs produced by growing cattles, sheeps and hens in the same size of farm can only feed 10 persons for a whole year. 10 kilo grams of grains are needed to get one kilo gram of cattle meat, 5 kilo grams of grains are needed to get one kilo gram of pork and 3 kilo grams of grains are needed to get one kilo gram of chicken. But these grains can be used to feed a human being for many times. Also, the preparation non vegetarian food requires 25 times more gas than the preparation of vegetarian food. Considering all this, changing to vegetarianism will not only benefit the earth but also the atmosphere.
Considering that vegetarian food is the easiest for human beings and the fact that meat are the reason for greenhouse gas methane which is 30 times worser than carbon dioxide, every Indians trying to reduce the consumption of meat and living a simple life would be more helpful to India in its battle against global warming and getting control of climate changes. If everyone took a vow to protect the atmosphere, earth will be protected.
While our country India tries to reduce the global warming by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, why don’t we, as the citizens of India try to do what we could do to reduce the same?
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