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Dear All,
Most of us have a low foot print not willingly, but by the force of circumstances. If given a chance if not all, most of the people will try to reach the highest step on the ladder of "standard of living". The term "standard of living" itself is coined or defined based on certain misconceptions on the culture and economics.
Vinodh Valluri said:
Pooja Uthappa said:
However, I have a hunch that it's directly attributable to our standards of living, and that's certainly not by our choice. I feel if Greendex looks at the green index of similar income groups in the world, particularly Indian middle class would be found significantly wanting in its green habit.
We waste water at our homes, our electricity is heavily subsidized and we love to waste it, we all drive cars in attrocious traffic conditions with horribly fuel in-efficient traffic conditions of our cities, we don't recycle or subscribe to community recycling of trash (except for the saving grace of having a community of poor rag-pickers, who help us in creating the green statistics), we walk very little and bike even lesser....
At the macro-level, we our industries have horrendous environmental performance, our public transport system is almost non-existing, there is either complete apathy or massive corruption in environmental governance, we have an inefficient and a large fossil fuel dependence power generation, the industries have minimal commitment towards environment and we hardly ask them a question....
I would like to live greener than what we are today, and where we are heading to.