The technology has caged human, making it an undetectable part of human life. Using technology is not a bad thing, but depending over them totally is not a good thing. Somewhere our prestige and honor is also responsible for our attitude of using thing hazardously. People feel ashamed in using cycle and feel pride in driving cars even for short distances. Recently, authorities have taken a positive step toward it, making it compulsory for all families to have just one car per household in order to reduce the traffic congestion, which will simultaneously lead to the reduction in pollution rate. The extent of devastation of nature is very high and going endlessly.
The extent of urbanization has increased to such an extent that a report disclosed the stats that humans have killed about half a million trees on the earth so far. The total number of trees have declined to 46 %, since the time human have started cutting them. The calculation by researchers shows that there are some 3.04 trillion trees on earth which breaks down to about 422 per person. About 15.3 million trees are being removed every year while just 5 billion trees grows every year and this reduction is going on a large scale on the tropics. The stats shows decrease of nearly 10 billion trees every year on earth.
In an example, China is known for the smoggy atmosphere which has always been in news causing health problems among people. The recent parade in China which was largest in the history of China, led the government to ban use of five million cars in Beijing for parade. And the result of that ban was not only seen on the roads but was also visible in sky. Beijing enjoyed two weeks of clear sky which usually remains smoggy due to pollution. Officials also began to shutting down several pollution producing factories temporarily for clearing the sky for making parade more effective. The clear sky during parade was nicknamed as ‘Parade Blue’ on social media. Just after the end of parade and the ban was lifted, all cars came to roads again covering sky from pollution.
Some cities like Beijing are facing the wrath of pollution while some places in America have made them entirely dependent over renewable resources. Aspen, Colorado has become third city in U.S to power itself entirely with renewable resources. The milestone achieved by the city took 10 years for employing wind solar and geothermal energy. The announcement was held last week when the city replaced 20-25 % of its energy need with renewable sources. Some other cities like Georgetown of Texas is also expected to be fully powered by renewable energy by 2017 and cities like San Diego and San Jose of California have also committed to go on the same path.
Well, these shows that one side of earth is busy in polluting earth and other end is trying to curb it. It is a better thing to take step in reducing pollution, but constant and communal efforts will make a good impact.
