Rain in Summer


It's mid March here in Nagpur. The temperature in this part of India at this time is (should be) going North day by day. Last two days it is raining like rainy season. This kind of sudden climatic changes are observed in last few years. As soon as temperature starts climbing, it rains. This impacts some of the crops and mango produce dramatically. I think these are some of the effects of Global warming which may get worse day by day if we do not act NOW. It's already high time and we as a society seem to have realized it as apparent from some of the initiatives taken by government and non-government organizations with participation from public. Here are some of the things we should do to improve the situation -

  • Increase the efficiency of public transport, the daily commute to office, workplace, etc. should be easy and convenient for all.  
  • Discourage use of private vehicles as much as possible. 
    • Increasing the cost of ownership of vehicles
    • Collect tolls on roads and for parking
    • Increase age limit for driving license to 
  • Impose strict norms on emissions (the PUC should not be a formality)
  • Encourage and provide assistance, guidance to plant and maintain at least a tree on Birthday (if necessary give tax exemption). Even if 1/4 of the population can participate in the program, we get a good number of trees planted and conserved. 
  • Encourage use of unconventional natural resources (solar energy is abundant and we should spend on research on increasing the efficiency of converting it into electricity)
  • Install sensors on all the street lights to keep them ON only during low light conditions. (We see so many street lights ON during day time)
  • Reduce electricity transmission losses. 
  • ....
  • ....
Time to act is now. Else we are going to experience rain in summer, dry HOT conditions in Winter and wait for rain in rainy season...

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