The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions, rise in temperature, intense flooding and droughts, all these outcomes boil down to one baneful factor: climate change which has led to an epochal shift. And one of the major causes of the present geologic disruption are certain human activities that exert an impact subversive enough to influence the generations to come.

The term Anthropocene (indicative of the impact humans have on earth and its’ environmental conditions) was coined by Eugene Stormer and Paul Crutzen and becomes pertinent in the context of various environmental changes that have been taking place presently. Climatic changes of the Anthropocene epoch have altered the ecological flow that is essential for the human population to sustain itself in tandem with other species of our planet.

The predicament that not only we currently face but will also be faced by our future generations, due to warmer oceans, Ozone layer depletion, melting of glaciers, rising pollution levels, biodiversity extinction, etc. makes us question the concept of sustainable development that every nation must aim to adapt and work towards achieving goals of sustainability. The impact that we could create as descendents of this planet by facilitating attitudinal changes within us and transitioning to activities that generate little to no carbon footprints would undeniably aid in achieving sustainability to a certain extent.