Don't put bleach in the Corals!!!

Ever seen the picture of coral reef?

The rainbow of colors found under the sea is simply magical. Regrettable, the colors are being bleached out of corals.

Over the past 200 years, our oceans have absorbed about half of CO2 emission that are in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. An enormous amount, which proves how important the oceans are to natural carbon cycle. The oceans also absorb excess heat & solar radiation from the atmosphere, making the water warmer, thus putting the corals at big-time risk.

"The Great Barrier Reef along the northeast coast of Australia suffered two mass coral bleaching events in the summers of 1998 and 2002, and also in the southern GBR in 2006. While most reef areas recovered with relatively low levels of coral death, some locations suffered severe damage, with up to 90% of corals killed. Based on IPCC 2007 assessment, coral reefs will be highly suspecptible to increase and more frequent bleaching events with the additional problem of acidification from increase carbon dioxides within the next twenty to thirty years." source Wikipedia.

It is believed that warm waters have damaged the coral reefs mostly in the Indian Ocean.

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Keep these corals alive, because we don't want to show pictures of corals to our grand-children to tell them what corals were. Let them go touch & feel the ocean reef.

Go Green

As I begin to write this blog, I chose a green color template and it instantly reminds me about NDTV's 24 hours initiative last week called Greenathon, it was commendable to see some big corporates, small, medium and big celebrities all doing their bit by either dancing, singing or running (Milind Soman ran 60 kilometers) trying to educate the aam jantaa the importance of saving our environment or else Mother Earth will perish in few years. Yes we are a victim of Global warming, something we called upon ourselves and now its pay back time.

It wasn't surprising when someone on that show standing near the banks of river Yamuna said that he might actually get an infection by standing near this "Once" river, now a sewage and industrial waste dump yard. I recall once such instance where my daughter was so excited for a glimpse of this river after reading that Lord Krishna played in this river & he killed the great Kallia Snake, followed by the disappointed look. She asked me, "where is the river, mother?" I said, "this is Yamuna" sitting in the car, pointing to lot of froth filled sand and she kept staring at my face almost lost in her imagination of what she expected the river to look like.

But then I did not really get paid to write a review on the channel or any celebrity. They all had their agendas(with all due respect to the effort). The channel wanted TRPs, the actors and other wanted all the limelight, I recently saw some of those participants judging Miss India Pageant. Others wanted to get noticed, someone wanted to promote their up-coming film through a noble cause etc etc. But then at least they took charge to stand up, whatever the intention could have been.

What came as a blow to me was that even after almost 62 years of Independence there were about 2 million or more villages which did not have electricity. So where was India shinning? I question to myself, what happens to the taxes we pay through our nose. A good escape to the leaders, that the citizens are such fools, they pay taxes plus run, sing, dance & pay for the job which was their job. I hope teri (The Energy and Resources Institute) is as sincere about this cause as it was made out to be. In case one doesn't know how teri comes into picture, the show collected approximately 2 Crore INR and was given to this foundation for lighting villages where there is no electricity.

There is no debate on how we need to preserve our environment from Global warming and there were a zillion-million tips given on this show, and an awakening of sorts that how much we have abused our planet, which was a gift to us.
But I just thought, did those people actually watch the whole show or are even aware of something like this. What about the people who live in villages who couldn't watch it because where there is no electricity something like a TV would be ultimate luxury. And then there are those who are generally expressing their anger towards life, by dirving their cars & bikes without silencer, who don't give a second thought on how unruly & uncool it looks when you throw an empty pack of wafer from your BMW or any car for that matter, who spit on our clean roads and of course the superstious lot, who dirty the river & oceans with all the puja waste. How do you educate them?

I just wish & hope we have some soul stirring serials or movies and many more Greenathon initiatives to wake our conscious and we are kind to this poor planet who bears us from one generation to another.

I posted few pictures on how this world was given to us & what we have done to it. Time to wake up, before its too late.