A good question right. How green do you want to be?? or rather the question should be put like this. How green can you be?? First of all it is important to know how far can we limit ourselves from our demands basically power in any form. What after the fossil fuels die down?? What will we be dependent on? The fuel to power our transportation, to power your microwaves, fans, bulbs, iron boxes etc.
Before the fossil fuels die down, there is this greatest disadvantage of carbon emissions into the atmosphere that is making life difficult for most of us. So even if the fossil fuels do not get completed, we cannot be operating the world like that. We're dependent on the resources of this world until the scientists at the NASA or any other space organization find a suitable planet to live in. It is indeed good to ask it now because this is the time when we can breathe and think.
A few years from now are not really promising with the way we're living and the culture we're creating.
When you ask 1950s people, they would say that the lifestyle we live in is what is the problem. They would start blaming the technology. But I would say even if it is a problem because of the technology that we use, then it should be seen as a challenge of finding how to live with the technology. We should start giving solutions to the problems that arise because of technology either by means of a new one or by creating changes in the present one. What we create is not meant to be perfect but to be perfected. Human comfort has got no limits. The real question here is "Will he be ready to go green??" If so, then how far is the next question.
Man can't be able to sacrifice the IC engines, the flight travel with the gas turbines on, the light bulbs, nuclear fuels etc. He wants that carbon space in the atmosphere to live.
What technology is next?? How can we give it back?? All the non-renewable resources that we took and converted as work. The low grade that was converted into high grade was utilised and cannot be got back.
The creation of a new kind of living is in the asking. Innovations as they call can become the necessity in years now. The economic condition of living also are major constraints to living in a green world. You can't be expecting a lower class family to be having a hybrid vehicle, or a fuel cell powered vehicle, a CFL bulb in his house, or say cook without wood as a fuel. Still in many parts of the world there is a need for conventional fuels. How do you expect to replace their style of living??
It is very hard to imagine a world which is sustainable. It is a word with a greater meaning indeed.
When I say sustainable it has a physical meaning added It is a big ask indeed to change the culture of the people and make them adapt to what is required. It is not only a challenge of restoring what you've taken but also about creating a new system that would take resources, convert them as what you want and give it back to mother nature in the form in which it was taken. That would sound like a great project statement to mankind. It is also an asking in the psychological point of view.
Wars. How green is it?? :P The differences in people should be made to subside and that is in one way going to happen only if we change ourselves within. That change is what is going to create a difference in how we're going to make earth a livable planet. "It is our earth, we're going to make it better to live in for the future generations and that's the biggest responsibility of the people of this era."
A responsibility of everyone of us!!
Whatever was done in the 19th and 20th centuries have affected us. That's the impact that we're going to create for the next few centuries. It is a whole new way of looking at things.
The decisions we take now are definitely going to have an effect in this century itself. There are theories circulating around as climate change is just a theory of sorts, but we can clearly see a lot of difference through the years with the examples of incidents being the Arctic snow cap, Green land, Antartica and in other parts of the world. We have a humongous task of giving back the planet its shape. Whether the theories or true or not.
What fuels we use?? What clothes we wear?? What vehicles we drive?? What technology we use?? What resources we do not give back to the planet?? It is not just something good for the world but a learning for us to live in a place that has been given.
-SATZ
