To the Power of VI
THE BEGINNING OF THE END SEEMS TO BE UPON US AND THREATENS to accelerate its approach if we, together as a planet, do not do our part to tone things down several notches. The time for fun and games is over and doomsday is the only visible future if we don’t drastically mend our ways. With great availability came greater consumption and now that very habituated consumption pattern is leading to our downfall. Serious threat from climate change is not just inevitable but vastly evident and world leaders, most of them anyway, are scurrying to make things right as best they can.
As one of the world’s largest economies and automotive markets, India must figure out a way to control pollution. While there are many factors detrimental to the environment, the mass use of polluting vehicles remains a blatant example of the ignorance with which we operate on a daily basis. Add the chaotic traffic and zero traffic sense and these issues compound — making traffic jams the modern-day equivalent of gas chambers. These concerns must be addressed on a war footing.
While traffic sense, road manners, and appropriate care of vehicles is the responsibility of road-users, the government can enforce due norms to make things better. The jump to BS VI is
