Hello, Welcome to Sonal’s Inquiry Project on the effects of pollution on the environment!
However, a quick glance at this picture is more than enough to understand the detrimental effects of pollution on our climate. I would like to share my journey with this project with everyone as I have tried to connect the consequences of pollution with the situations that the world is facing currently. Hopefully, we come up with some solutions to maintain the balance of our ecosystem through this Inquiry project.
“Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts,” a U.N. panel said. (Martin Meissner/AP)
This being a living inquiry, the best place to start it is wherever one finds oneself existentially. One looks inwardly into one’s own thoughts and feelings, while facing the world, noting how one reacts with conditioned thoughts and feeling responses. Usually we are too busy reacting that we do not stop to reflect and examine our response. Inquiry starts at this point of stop. From this place of stop, we question the necessity of “the way things are,” and address the possibility of seeing the world and the self differently and hence relating to the world differently. “What if I were to…?”
—Heesoon Bai, 2005, p. 47