Saturday, June 12, 2010

My Perspective on GoGreen

According to modern earth sceince 4.6 billion year old Earth took 800 Million years to turn BLUE(Archaean Era) from RED(Hadean Era). Took Billion years to to start turning GREEN (Oxegenic Photosynthesis : Neoarchean). Took 2.3 Billion years for modern human to evolve.
But it is taking very few years for Humans to push Earth from GREEN to RED (Global Warming) and BLUE(ICE CAP Melting).
IPCC's Third Assessment Report projects that the Earth's average surface temperature will increase between 2.5° and 10.4°F (1.4°-5.8°C) between 1990 and 2100 in "business-as-usual" scenario. Thinking whats big deal, even a modest rise of 2°- 3°F (1.1°-1.7°C) could have dramatic effects. In the last 10,000 years, the Earth's average temperature hasn't varied by more than 1.8°F (1.0°C). Temperatures only 5°-9°F cooler than those today prevailed at the end of the last Ice Age, in which the Northeast United States was covered by more than 3,000 feet of ice !!!

This reminds us old story of person axing branch on which he was sitting, though this is evidently foolish outright - So is the deeds of us WRT green house gas emmission. In this case niether we have time to fall from branch to prove our foolishness nor we can wait for a miracle to happen to make us Kalidas from a foolish man. <<"Thy helps to those who helps themselves">>
As an individual every one has power to control most of our choices and, therefore, the impact we create: from where we live to what we buy, eat, and use to light etc can have global impact. With global importance on Green initiatives and corbon credit program a near reality it is becoming important that the IT solutions provided have this aspect considered as one of the strategic driver.

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