Nick Vedovi - How Can We Save The Environment?

 Nick Vedovi: “Save the environment to save ourselves.” There is nothing more precious than one’s own health and life. The problem is that environment is such an issue that one cannot solve it for oneself only. Nobody can bring corrections in the climatic change or greenhouse effect for his own sake. These issues have to be addressed on a world scale. The United States was first to identify the suffering from a hole in the ionosphere due to incessant use and release of Freon gases. The developed nations did not find enough elbow room in their territory to bring good changes in the climate. A considerable decrease in carbon footprint would mean curtailment in many comforts and luxuries.

There were calls for a world summit to save the environment. Now it is a global issue. The melting of glaciers and the rise in the sea level is not going to attack the affluent only. A tsunami may hit any shore. Greenhouse warming is now called global warming. We have borrowed the entire future of our children and now we have started eating ourselves through degradation in health and scarcity in natural resources.

Environmental degradation is not a very old issue. It may be only 1000 years old when man started processing raw material for end products. They became economic workhorse by producing finished products in a quick time. In this cutthroat competition, they started to be careless about the environment. They generated solid wastes, which were hazardous. They did not even care to dispose of such waste carefully. They started polluting the air with toxic emissions. They polluted water bodies with toxic discharge from factories involved in hazardous processes. This abuse of the environment went on for quite a long time. This was the era when deafening noise from the factories used to please the owner since it meant productivity. Toxic emissions from chimneys were a sign of work in progress. Even, we as a child used to locate our beloved train from its emanating brown smoke from quite a distance.

Nick Vedovi: “Time had to come when one should think of one’s own life at stake. The precious margin in life span was found to be hidden in saving the environment.”