No Pollution, No Electricity cuts, No Pests,No Crowd, Non bumpy clean roads, Beautiful Foliage and the list can go on…
During my stay in the USA, I discovered this handsome face of the world and I kinda fell in love with all the luxuries that this ‘Country of Abundance’ had to offer.
But Somewhere deep down in a corner of my heart I felt that something was not right somewhere and as I started contemplating I realised the following.How could one justify the use of such large and extra large cars carrying only one person each?Every member of a family has a car. Now this is what I call Luxury, and luxury never comes cheap. But in the USA it does…Easy loan availability, cheaper fuel prices coupled with poor public transportation and high speed on road people use their cars even to travel from one state to another. Not to forget these cars ought to be heated during winters and cooled during summers as the high speeds prevent sliding down the window glasses(in summers).No wonder while US has only 4.5% of the world’s population its fuel consumption is more than double that of India which supports more than16% of world’s population.
Why talk only about cars, even houses are conditioned all the 12 months of a year.
Most houses in the USA are carpeted.I am still not able to figure out the reason though!This means that if you have babies and toddlers at home you have to keep them in diapers 24 hours a day.If on an average it takes 2 years for a baby to be potty trained ,a single baby would use 3650 diapers.Now here is a disheartening fact-A diaper take 500 years to decompose,can you believe this?
While in India, people use the cloth line to dry clothes under the sun, it’s against the law in some places of US to dry clothes outside.Now, when ‘Going Green’ and ‘Conserving Energy’ are the buzz words ....what kinda law is this?
Everything here is either "new" or "to be disposed"...there is NO Thing like "to be repaired"
Extensive use of Halogen Lights(as against Florescent Lights), daily drinking water packed in 500 ml bottles, tissue papers, disinfectant sprays, Hundreds of Use and throw items, houses miles away from shopping complexes and the list can go on…
Life, my dear reader is undeniably, a lot comfortable in the USA,but the price being paid is far too colossal. I would say the comfort and the luxury is at the expense of the future generation to come.
During my stay in the USA, I discovered this handsome face of the world and I kinda fell in love with all the luxuries that this ‘Country of Abundance’ had to offer.
But Somewhere deep down in a corner of my heart I felt that something was not right somewhere and as I started contemplating I realised the following.How could one justify the use of such large and extra large cars carrying only one person each?Every member of a family has a car. Now this is what I call Luxury, and luxury never comes cheap. But in the USA it does…Easy loan availability, cheaper fuel prices coupled with poor public transportation and high speed on road people use their cars even to travel from one state to another. Not to forget these cars ought to be heated during winters and cooled during summers as the high speeds prevent sliding down the window glasses(in summers).No wonder while US has only 4.5% of the world’s population its fuel consumption is more than double that of India which supports more than16% of world’s population.
Why talk only about cars, even houses are conditioned all the 12 months of a year.
Most houses in the USA are carpeted.I am still not able to figure out the reason though!This means that if you have babies and toddlers at home you have to keep them in diapers 24 hours a day.If on an average it takes 2 years for a baby to be potty trained ,a single baby would use 3650 diapers.Now here is a disheartening fact-A diaper take 500 years to decompose,can you believe this?
While in India, people use the cloth line to dry clothes under the sun, it’s against the law in some places of US to dry clothes outside.Now, when ‘Going Green’ and ‘Conserving Energy’ are the buzz words ....what kinda law is this?
Everything here is either "new" or "to be disposed"...there is NO Thing like "to be repaired"
Extensive use of Halogen Lights(as against Florescent Lights), daily drinking water packed in 500 ml bottles, tissue papers, disinfectant sprays, Hundreds of Use and throw items, houses miles away from shopping complexes and the list can go on…
Life, my dear reader is undeniably, a lot comfortable in the USA,but the price being paid is far too colossal. I would say the comfort and the luxury is at the expense of the future generation to come.
2 comments:
I agree that the USA is one of the indirect polluters of Earth, if not direct according to them. It is indeed an irony that they voice higher than any other country on global warming.
It has become a life-style there to use and throw. It is an habit and it takes generations to change. This is one of the reasons why, instead of planning energy conservation strategies, USA survives only on blaming developing countries for global warming.
The only advantage is that words such as 'green', 'going green', and 'carbon footprint' have found their places in the 'banished' words list :-)
hey Sapna! I saw your blog throu' Arun's! That is a nice thought! Not many would have thought about this conservation. Everybody out there would just love to enjoy this luxury rather than putting some thought into things like this!
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