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Development of Destruction: Climate change is not a fad

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Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord has shocked the Americans and rest of the world alike. USA has been the biggest contributor to the carbon footprints statistics in the history of the world and this decision of leaving the Paris Climate Accord has simply highlighted the hypocrisy of world’s ‘Strongest Nation’.

Trump has literally demonstrated the “Ostrich burying its head in the sand” example. Though in reality, Ostriches may never do any such thing but Trump certainly has. While liberal Americans have sprung into action condemning this decision, a lot needs to be done to make leaders like Trump understand the gravity of the situation. Personalities like Elon Musk and Disney boss exiting Trump’s Business panel has set an excellent example for the rest of America to follow. The problem is however not limited to Trumps’ mentality but includes the approach of overall humanity to the apocalypse-like situation.

Humans are programmed to respond to the immediate threats to their lives only, a trait of character that will cost them dearly in coming decades. As more and more species go extinct one after the other, the day is not far when their absence will cause a major crisis on the existence of humans themselves.

As of now, the world’s leading economies such as India, China and USA are focusing only on increasing the GDPs of their states, creating industries for needless luxuries, destroying ecology to make way for energy projects, dumping their industrial venom in rivers, seas and atmosphere, cutting down forests to accommodate the ever rising and unchecked population which further depletes the environment thereby forcing the original inhabitants of the region out of their homes and on the path of extinction.

Most Polluted Cities

The carbon footprints of China are through the roof and USA, which has always been the top contender, has certainly increased its pace with Trump’s latest shocker. India might be the fastest growing economies but still, they contribute very little as compared to giants like the US.

China might have the highest carbon footprint in the world, but taking into account the huge population of 1.37 billion, the CO2 emissions in metric tons per capita is only 6.2 as compared to USA’s 17.6. India fares really well at 1.7 due to its huge population, but considering the fact that the most polluted cities in the world are Indian, a proper climate strategy needs to be formed as promised by PM Narendra Modi, who emphasizes on Sustainable Development in India and abroad on a regular basis. Walking the talk is the biggest challenge for Modi and India.

Denuded Forests

Development, as the governments call this process, will cause destruction on a massive scale in the not so far away future. People have suffered so much because of the worst possible government policies all around the world, that they are left with no choice but to believe in the idea of ‘Development’ as the only solution to their sufferings.

‘Eco-friendly Development’ is the new term coined by some so called ‘responsible ‘ politicians who aim at minimizing wastage while processing natural resources, which ultimately resulted in the Paris Climate Deal. While this might be one positive step forward, but still this step only aims at depleting the natural resources at a slower and managed rate. The actual problem still remains unattended i.e. extravagant lifestyles that people are being made accustomed to, and to see that lifestyle as the one and only measure of success.

While the majority of human population struggles to get basic minimum resources needed for survival such as nutritious food, healthy drinking water and a roof over their heads in the third world countries, efforts are being wasted to provide needless luxuries in the first world countries. So, it becomes easy for somebody like Donald Trump to disregard Climate change as a Chinese propaganda. Digital Marketing Company India

The election of Donald Trump and wider geopolitical turbulence because of it are believed to be so dangerous that the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have pushed it forward to 2 minutes and 30 seconds before midnight, i.e. 30 seconds forward in one go.

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The clock, an indicator of the world’s vulnerability to nuclear, environmental and political threats, was set at 3 minutes to midnight (with midnight being the apocalypse) in 2016.

The world is already witnessing the impacts of climate change. India, for instance, has been affected severely by drought, and farmers are dying due to crop damage. While the developing countries such as India have agreed to adopt an Eco-friendly approach towards ‘Development’, the need to redefine ‘Development’ is the need of the hour.

The solution, though very hypothetical is Minimalism. The people(especially the rich) should be taught by the means of Government policies to understand the gravity of the situation and to give up the unnecessary extravagant lifestyles to a simpler and much more happier lifestyle which is actually eco-friendly and leaves more resources for other people to attain a minimum survival lifestyle.

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