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Does carbon credits have any credibility?

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I live in India, one of the fastest growing developing nation. Recently, I have been noticing and reading the air quality index of our country, which is going down gradually and it takes a nose dive in our National Capital Region and Metro cities. The reason can be traffic, construction, deforestation, global warming and other not so good things. The temperature difference that is created by Greenhouse gases emission like Carbon Dioxide are the culprit. But we are fast developing nation, does that mean that we can pollute and emit whatever toxic we want and how much we want without caring for the environment? There should be International treaty, impositions, taxes or system which should control this. After all we all have only one earth to live. Well there is one system which I came across and the idea is beautiful but it is gaining some criticism over the course of time. What is carbon credit?  It’s much like the credit worth you have, when you do some transaction...

Aerial Seed Bombing

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हिंदी में पढ़े :  एरियल सीड बॉम्बिंग Seed Bombs Being environmentalist from heart , I try to contribute as much as I can to reduce my environmental footprint. Apart from individual contribution the globalization has tipped the scale of demand and supply. In the past decade we have seen acceleration in world wide environmental issues like Global Warming, Glacier Melting, Weather Cycle Change, Ozone Depletion, Increase in Green House Gases. Our future looks quite dim. Somebody rightly said that  And the way we are going we don't have much time left before these problems become irreversible.  Pixabay: Deforestation Deforestation is one of the major cause of these  issues, our flora is actually the provider of many benefits like Oxygen, Lumber, Medicines, Shelter etc. to name a few. And we have mistreated, exploited our providers to an extent that we may not be able to reverse the impact in time. I was reading about the upcoming technologi...