The Apocalypse 

By Mrs Rekha Lalla

Programme Manager-Green Campus Program
The Climate Reality Project, India                                                 

 Climate change could be irreversible by 2030. 

According to a report conducted by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), urgent action is needed to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming. Without change, the world’s coral reefs could be completely eradicated, and we could see an increase in widespread flooding, extreme heat, drought and poverty. The Earth's rotation is also slowing down due to the rapid melting of ice in polar regions. With the melting of ice coastal land is going under water more rapidly......slowly we have increased population in all land areas due to Climate migration of humans. Human beings are the sixth probable species threatened by mass extinction.

Young and thoughtful youth generation today is trying to do their best to contribute in whichever way they can to save the planet, only if they could be given a free hand at that!

 

Rekha Lalla is a CII-Certified Expert in Climate Change and sustainability. She is also a Buddhist scholar. She has been an educator for over twenty-four years, teaching in the best schools of Kerala and Delhi. She has taught Science for Twenty-Four years and was also the Head of TERI Prakriti School, Gurgaon. Ms Lalla holds masters’ degrees in Botany. She is an Environmentalist, who has been trained by Nobel Prize winner Al Gore and is a “Climate Leader” trained in 2008 at New Delhi and she is also Mentor for TCRP (The Climate Reality Project) in 2015,2020. She is also an artist having conducted Painting Exhibitions at India Habitat Centre and CSOI. She has authored children’s books in GK and Science. She has played a vital role in several educational and environmental projects undertaken by the Department of Environment, Government of Delhi. She has designed educational toys for LEO METTLE Thomson Connect. She has worked with a number of NGOs- She was also awarded for her environmental projects done in school by Chief minister of Delhi in 2012. She was associated with her sustainability work in International NGOs and International schools-YouThinkGreen, Terre Madre, Korea Academy of Science, Face to Faith, British Council and Swiss Embassy.