Plant saplings to prevent global warming

Bhimavaram: Park Group of Institutions (Coimbatore) Chief Executive Officer Dr R Anusha has advocated massive tree planting to facilitate carbon-fixing and prevent global warming, which would lead to climatic changes and the consequent deleterious consequences for human, animal and plant life.

She was the chief guest for a seminar on ‘Role of youth in combating global warming’ at Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women in Bhimavaram on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, she said, "Trees are being cut down in the city in the name of development works. This practice should be stopped. Each and every individual should grow trees to tackle the ill-effects of global warming.”

“Planting trees will help to prevent global warming by reducing levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and evaporating water into the atmosphere, which increases cloudiness. Planting trees can reduce pollution and also help reduce the effects of global warming,” she added.
She urged students to come up with innovations to check the menace. She trees were vital for life as they trap the heat and absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and release oxygen. In the absence of the trees, the heat generated by the sun would remain in the atmosphere and heat up the earth, resulting in the rise of sea level, she added.

Social activist Abdul Ghani said all efforts to tackle global warming should become a people’s movement to prevent the deleterious effects the phenomenon would have on life in the future. He said that the sea level was rising every year and there was a danger of several countries or parts of countries being drowned in the future. This would result in huge destruction of life if timely efforts are not taken to prevent the catastrophe, he added.
College Principal G Srinivasa Rao, Vice-Principal Srinivasa Raju said "Trees take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen via photosynthesis, and play an important role in bringing rain to earth." Growing trees will help to combat the challenges posed by climate change to a significant extent, they added.

Earlier, Anusha, Abdul Ghani and former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s grandson and social activist APJ Shaik Saleem planted tree saplings on the college campus along with NSS volunteers and girl students.