Saturday, May 30, 2009

City Life - Traffic Jam + CO2

Jam! How sweet !
But instead of toast bread try fix ‘ traffic ‘ with ‘jam’. Contrary to all expectations and laws of chemical combinations , there is an exothermic reaction…an outburst in a fraction of a second. Like reflex action, you hear an outcry in a single voice from all the residents of big cities. “No, it is not traffic jam but bloody traffic jam”.(BTJ)

Because BTJ is in the air they breathe in and out.

Because all of them for their breakfast, lunch and dinner are forced to eat, drink and vomit this special recipe messed up with lots of wonderful ingredients…. Prolonged delays, frustration, tension ( low, high and super) , and shouting of bad words (according to each driver’s vocabulary), and bad signs (transmission and receiving), and mobile phoning, accidents , traffic police , traffic fines and what not …

Manufactured en masse, under the direct supervision of RTAs. No serving, but you are directly sucked into the hot oven and immersed free of any charges whatsoever, without any discrimination of colour, creed, sex religion, language, or whether you own a car or not…

All those who venture out to the roads have no choice except to enjoy , frown or vomit the harsh , bitter, disgusting taste of BTJ. You will be dipped , taken out and dipped again and again , rolled , rotated and finally thrown out of the oven at your destination.
Go to your niche, have a nice bath, food, TV and prepare for the same ritual for the next very good morning.

I am sad.

My mind is silently weeping… Like you or other friends of the environment or somebody who loves nature.. . The enchanting greenery, serene valleys, the spring, the flowers…all will vanish for ever. Such cooling soothing sights that took you to dizzy heights will be a thing of the past. No more natural beauty…

Instead, you will see around you , famine , severe drought , coastal flooding, submerging of low lying lands , untold human miseries due to mass migration of environmental refugees etc.

Global warming is more than a ‘forest fire’. It was ignited and is being fuelled by human beings. The heat is engulfing the whole of the earth.

Time is running out. The earth is fast heading for the inevitable disaster. The velocity at which we are heading for the dooms day could be reduced if we are able to protect the environment and tame the main villain of the GHGs i.e. CO2. Only the human beings can solve it. Each of us has a duty, however small, to perform to achieve that goal.

The ban on public smoking by many governments is a drop of cold water straight into the centre of the fire of global warming. Let the transport authorities around the world take the next important step - REDUCE THE CO2. EMISSIONS ON THE ROADS.

This can be achieved by applying a simple formula. Where the last digit in the Reg.No of a vehicle coincides with the last digit of the current date such vehicles will keep off the roads on such days. For e.g. all the vehicles ending with digit 5 will take a holiday on 5th, 15th and 25th of each month. The next chance will be for the digit 6. And so on.

I am sure the whole world will follow because nobody looses anything but only gain.

It will reduce the petrol bill by1/10th
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It will reduce CO2 emissions from motor vehicles also by 1/10th

It will reduce traffic jam by 1/10th

It will give a clear awareness to the common man throughout the world, about climatic change, global warming and its disastrous consequences.

When considered globally such reduction in CO2 emissions amounts to thousands of tons per year.

If the ban on public smoking is a drop of cold water, the proposed action formula for RTAs will have the effect of at least a small rain on the fire of global warming.

I believe the Environment Protection Agencies Around the world will exert pressure on RTAs to reduce the traffic jam and consequently the CO2 emissions.

We all know the road from Kyoto to Bali was not very smooth and it still is not. There fore to reduce almost 1/10th of the present carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles by a simple stroke of the pen will be like a bloodless revolution. Definitely the above formula deserves global attention.

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