Its getting more warm - yeah its really happening.

We had a session on Environmental degradation and global warming at office, a much talked about topic with less corrective actions done.

The idea of the seminar was to hit the facts right on the educated and privileged (privileged to buy apartments and fit with air coolers, luxury cosmetics, and electronic goods, eat out and burn the depleting resources of Mother Nature) society and do something to change the inertia.

Yes we know there is an alarming global warming taking place and we will sure face the effects during our life time itself, forget to think about environment that we will leave to next generation.

Don’t we all have questions and skeptic answers in our mind? Aren’t we common masses with no say over government/ industrial policies and our inability to do anything constructive about global warming? Though true, it’s high time to do our two cents of efforts.

I hereby take a conscious effort to reduce my carbon footprint (software engineers can relate to footprints). Before tuning our software application for best performance with least resources, let’s tune our lifestyle.

I hereby promise to myself –

Prove my ability to walk and cycle around, whenever I could and avoid depending on fuel burning vehicles. Employ public transport/ pooling wherever it’s possible.
Monitor the power and water consumption at home reducing it as much as possible.
Use papers judiciously.
Try avoiding creating more E waste by not purchasing all new gadgets that i will use once in a blue moon.
Be a responsible dweller of Earth, the paradise soon to be lost.

I invite more thoughts on this topic and what we can do about it and REALLY DO it.