The problem in perceiving the pollution

An ex IIT professor Guru Das Agarwal, an environmental activist, religious leader, monk, who was protesting for the river Ganga's ecosystem, was murdered by government system, although the cause of his death is noted in the official documents as fast till death or starvation, but if one looks closely to the events around his death then it is evident that this was a murder, 

The people in the government system cannot not see what he was able to see, this is the problem in perception.

Please take a break and read about him.

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Sometimes I get into argument in my home about the segregation of the household wastes, and sometimes bringing too many polythene bags in the house when it can be avoided,
I feel guilty about all the waste I have thrown out to atmosphere in past, and feel this as a loan I am taking from nature, and not repaying anytime.
When I bring in the personal consequences that I may face due to my actions for increasing pollution of air/water/soil, like any horrible disease etc, people give a very awkward look, try to mention to someone that you are more likely to get lung cancer because you drive a car to a small distance (many time work location), when you can walk or cycle, people will start to doubt your sanity,
but mentioning these kind of predictions(even if they prove wrong, and hopefully) is is very important because, we as humans only perceive the seriousness of a problem when it is personal to us,

Climate change is the bitter truth, which we are facing to an extent we can bear, which our next generations will be facing in its brutality, there is no easy way to understand the consequences of our irresponsible actions towards nature other than to see ourselves gripped in the polluted atmosphere, breathing and eating that, take a look at the following heart breaking picture(*):

While the context of this picture is something else, from the pollution perspective only, can you imagine yourself doing that,
no?, the reality is you are already doing that, we all are eating the food that has some plastic content inside, that has the toxic chemicals inside, which we throw in garbage, those which are found in industrial waste, all the garbage the chemical waste we are draining down to our river systems and seas ,comes back to our mouth from the water and the air cycle,

And when I see the facts about the household waste only, leaving aside the industrial waste, the statistics are overwhelming, take a look here,

If the rate of the increase in the pollution continues with this pace, our planet will be inhabitable within next 100 years, that means, our next generations will be having very hard time fighting with the diseases originating from the polluted air, garbage, heavy metal toxicity, cancer , respiratory diseases, lower immunity, multiple allergies etc.

The severity of the problem is very easy to be overlooked by many of us, but if you think it in another way which is personal to us then I think the problem can be perceived better, example: the house in the metropolitan for which some of us are paying monthly installments for will be of no use after 30 years as there will be either no drinking water, or to costly to buy, the air will be so polluted that we will have to put on the air filter mask all the time, this is the situation right now in many cities, Capetown and Delhi are the example,
What bothers most is the fact that those people are still neglecting the climate change who have the power of policy making, technology, capital, these are the people who have control over the climate changing events, for those and us also, it cannot be expressed with more stress, and I am not overstating this: our coming generation will breath and eat the toxicity.
It is time to panic about the climate change.
Its time to find the solutions at each individual's level.

Reference:

*http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/pricking-societys-conscience-61328.html