hi all
Dr Abdul Kalam spent his 80th birth anniversary day in a village near Coimbatore on 15th October 2011. He also inaugurated a new scheme "dawn of green". Through this scheme, Coimbatore residents will be planting 2011 trees every week for 52 weeks. At the end of one year, there will be more than one lakh trees planted.
While launching the scheme, he also appealed to all people to plant one tree at least, so that one billion trees will be planted. I am re-writing an important part of his Tamil speech for the benefit of members.
Extract from Dr Kalam's speech
"I want to share with you all an important information. Myself and my friends reached here from the airport after travelling 300 kilometres in two cars. That is both the cars have travelled 600 kilometres. We have used around 60 litres of diesel.
Every litre of diesel emits 2.7 Kg of Carbon Dioxide. That means, during our journey, we would have been responsible for polluting the environment with 162 Kg of carbon di-oxide. Many vehicles have come to this function. Imagine how much of carbon di-oxide, all the vehicles might have released to pollute the environment.
World over, all the vehicles put together release more than 36 billion ton carbon di-oxide every year. That is why, monsoon and the climate get disturbed a lot.
If human beings want to live happily, every person should plant one tree and protect this. A grown up tree always absorbs 20 Kg of carbon di-oxide and emits 14 Kg of Oxygen. If every individual plants one tree, it will become one billion trees. This one billion trees can protect our environment and keep check on the changing climate. This will safeguard the future also."
As suggested by Dr Kalam, let us all plant at least one tree in our place, to protect the climate and to safeguard the future.
Jai Hind
Srinivasan
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