The 11th Hour Scramble

Is it really the 11^th hour or is it the easy-panic-stricken-human-nature that is making us worry about the climate change. Or is it just a hype created by some scientists looking for recognition and fame. Or is the media looking to cash in the opportunity by sensationalizing the matter.

Our good old earth has been through many gradual and abrupt changes, some much larger than any we are currently experiencing. According to the Japan Society for Energy and Resources (JSER), the rate of increase of Global Mean Temperature was 0.5 degrees Celsius per 100 years. However, since 2001, this increase has halted. Despite this, there has been an increase in CO2 level.

Global warming is mostly attributed to anthropological activities like industrialisation, automobile emission and use of un-sustainable development activities. Apart from some fraction of it, the whole issue cannot be attributed solely to human activities. Climate change is caused by many other factors, from volcanic eruptions to ocean’s activities, from solar activity to tectonic movements.

Why to criminalise only human beings, when even nature has equal contributions to environmental changes. Why to blame humankind for increase in greenhouse gases when even a belching cow has a part in it.

The anthropogenic global warming theory is still a hypothesis, then why do we believe in it. We were initially sceptical when Galileo and Copernicus proved that the earth was round, then why are we in a haste to jump to conclusion.

Humans have always found a way to survive climate changes, proving the Lamarckian adaptation theory. If it is not sensible of us to take the matter lightly, it is also wrong to blow up the issue. Even “if” it is the 11^th hour we still have 1 hour left which we should utilize in the optimum way possible without panicking. Not by playing God in one or two politically selected factors, but by adapting to the situation.