Combating an emerging Environmental Crisis
As we march along with the rapidly changing times that we are in, we encounter newer and newer problems, for which we have to find solutions, some of which are not easy to come by. But this is the inevitable price we have to pay for progress and there is just no escape from it.
One such major problem the entire world is facing today, is of the growing environmental pollution which is entirely due to our present-day lifestyle and rapidly growing population. There was no problem that went by this name till the advent of industrial revolution and increasing use of fossil fuels started, at the commencement of last century.
Until then, when men were contented with being old-fashioned agriculturists, growing or gathering what they wanted and sharing or exchanging what was with them in excess, we too, just like all the other inhabitants of this world, were not leaving any carbon footprints whatsoever, on our planet.
But now, that old-fashioned contentment has gone missing, with our growing dependence on and a demand for an easier and more affluent lifestyle, where flaunting what we are and have, seems to be more important than our contentment. That is why today, as we battle our many lifestyle diseases, we are even constantly watching what kind of air we are breathing, as we gasp and pant for breath.
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