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prevents the harmful ultraviolet rays from entering the earth, has been depleted. The primary cause for
the depletion of ozone layer is excessive emission of CO and other chloro-floro carbons into the
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atmosphere. Mankind has been mindlessly using the natural resources for selfish reasons. We have
been cutting trees and have never bothered to replace the same number at least. This is causing an
imbalance and excessive carbon in the atmosphere. In addition, emission of industrial gases has also
increased tremendously. The vehicular traffic and consumption of diesel and petrol has increased
many folds. All this is contributing enormously to the rise in the CO levels which is resulting in
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depletion of ozone layer and increase in global warming.

The recent tsunami in the Asian region and thunderstorms in the western regions have drawn the
attention of developed nations towards the threat to humanity and the flora and fauna. It is said that if
this trend continues then coastal countries like Maldives and major parts of Mumbai will get
submerged in coming years. With this realization, the United Nations is actively pursuing the agenda
of cutting CO emissions. A Summit was held in Copenhagen in which several developed, developing
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and under-developed nations took part but no consensus could be achieved because the developed
nations were trying to enforce mandatory emission cuts on the developing and under-developed
countries. Recently, another World Summit was held in Cancun where the United States was seen
aggressively lobbying to impress upon developing countries like India and China to agree to the
mandatory cuts. The developing countries contend that the developed countries must cut their

emissions more than the others as the developing countries are struggling with several social issues
and have to use more energy to raise the standard of living of their people, which means they will
emit more CO whereas developed nations have already achieved a good standard of living and
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hence are in a good position to cut emissions. While countries have broadly agreed that the emissions
must be cut, no one is willing to adhere to a regime and subject themselves to verifications by a third
party.

The only way to reduce global warming is by increasing forestation and reducing use of fossil
fuels. I feel the developed nations must intensify their research in the field of alternative energy and
help developing and under-developed nations to adopt green energy. Since developed nations are
well off, they need to take the necessary initiative and help other nations towards achieving inclusive
growth in a green way. I also feel that even we as student community can contribute to this cause by

using bicycles instead of riding bikes so often and plant trees instead to increase the absorption of
CO in a natural way.
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In conclusion I would like to say that global warming is a very serious issue and, though some
efforts have been made in the past, more needs to be done. We need to focus on alternative fuels, and

the developed nations must take the initiative and lead from the front, failing which the existence of
mankind could itself be threatened.

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