Climate changes: Human apathy towards nature

Pages: 352-353
Sonia Jangra (Department of Geography, JVMGRR College, Charkhi Dadri, Haryana)
Ajay Singh (Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambeshwar, University of Science and Tech., Hisar, Haryana )

Since couple of decades, many anti-environment and anti-nature activities are being performed by the people worldwide. In other words, they are exploiting nature extensively and indulged in affairs and habits which is highly unhealthy and against environment. The consequence of this unhealthy and unethical practice of natural resources lead to damage to the natural living climate for human beings. One manifestation of this anti nature events is global warming. Global warming is the increase of Earth’s average surface temperature due to influence of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth. Global dimming is the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth’s surface that was observed for last couple of decades after the start of systematic measurements in the 1950s.The greenhouse effect is defined as when the atmosphere of earth becomes heavy with gases and substances which trap the sun’s radiation, creating the Earth warmer. An example of the greenhouse effect is global warming and poor air quality. If we want to make this planet a livable planet, each one of us has to contribute in this direction to escape this earth from natural disasters.