Green India

The sheer magnitude of ecological challenges like global warming and desertification of cultivable land necessitate extraordinary measures. Within the premise of national borders, restoration of the green cover to the pre-independence level may be the only option. Use of electricity/fossil fuel a pr...

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Published in:Current science (Bangalore) 2009-04, Vol.96 (8), p.1018-1018
Main Author: Subhedar, N. K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Atmospherics
Carbon
Carbon dioxide emissions
Consumption
CORRESPONDENCE
Credit agencies
Crops
Desertification
Ecological monitoring
Industrial agriculture
Land
Legislation
Plantations
Plants
Renewable energy
Restoration
Tax audits
Tax refunds
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Summary:The sheer magnitude of ecological challenges like global warming and desertification of cultivable land necessitate extraordinary measures. Within the premise of national borders, restoration of the green cover to the pre-independence level may be the only option. Use of electricity/fossil fuel a priori means that the consumer is polluting the environment. If we accept this argument, the onus of undoing the effects of pollution squarely rest on the consumer. Since the consumer is transforming certain amount of fixed carbon into the atmospheric CO sub(2), he should take steps to convert the equivalent gas emissions back into fixed carbon. In practice this will mean plantation of trees in proportion to the energy consumed, and this activity should be made mandatory by adopting legislation on the following lines.
ISSN:0011-3891