our earth our responsibility

Our Earth: Our Responsibility

• Why to worry? • This is no Harry Potter!• How are we adding to the problem?• What we need to do?

Why should we worry?

Sea level rise

Global temperature rise

Oceans Warming

Ice sheets Shrinking

Arctic Sea Ice Declining

Glaciers Retreating

Ocean Acidification

Extreme Events

Whether you are a contractor, a vendor, a merchant or a government employee, CAN you live without oxygen and survive without water, and STILL BE hale and hearty?

This is the Reason Why the Environment is SO important !

Land & Sea : It’s Heating Up….

What gets us into trouble, is not what we don’t know, its what we know for sure, that just ain’t so

-- Mark Twain

Global land – Ocean Temperature Index

Source: NASA

Weather data from more than a thousand meteorological stations around the world, satellite observations of sea surface temperature

and Antarctic research station measurements. Credit: NASA/GISS

• Why should we worry? • This is no Harry Potter!• How are we adding to the problem?• What we need to do?

Climate: By the Stats

Going down by 11.2% every decade

CO2, Concentration Levels- Highest in 650,000 Years, Currently at 389 Parts Per Million (PPM)

Global Average Sea Level: Risen 4-8 Inches over the past century, 53 mm since 1993

Jan 2000 to Dec 2009- Warmest Decade Ever Recorded

Land Ice: Greenland Ice reducing by 24 Cubic Miles Per Year

Source: NASA

This is No Fiction

This is How We Mess Up ….. Daily !

Industries Deforestation Plastic Waste

Water pollution Chemical Pollution Automobile Industry

Think Green at Home

Save Water

Prefer Hybrid Cars

Save Trees for Future

Energy Efficient Lamps

Use Recycled Bags

Change Begins With Us

Embracing Nature From Young

Nurturing Nature

Eventually it will not be us who will deal with the most devastating effects of climate change ...

It will be our children, grand children …

Presentation ByK Raju

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