agriculture is 89 per cent to the planets global warming and its harming our biodiversity as well governments are misinterpreting climate emergency as a next generation problem but its not till they realise it though we can do our bit by embracing veganism says the youngsterwater crisis the viral video of 10yearold siddharth dhage from mukundwadi one of the droughtaffected villages in aurangabad travelling 14 km by train to fetch two cans of water broke priya patils heart on the other hand the water crisis in chennai was a highlight of the year as wellpriya a student of philosophy from sp college says the issue of water crisis has been serious and needs urgent attention she says everyone has a right to safe and clean drinking water but unfortunately thats not happening the video of siddharth drew our attention to the serious water shortage in the country over 50 per cent of indias population faced the threat of no access to water this year the situation is so scary that 21 cities in the country are likely to run out of ground water by 2020 from our side the least we can do is be careful while using water and avoid wasting itgreed vs need a loud and profound conversation around consumerism highlighting how our choices what we eat wear how we travel etc are closely related to climate change happened this year shraddha hegde a final year student of the college of engineering pune feels that because of consumerism greed has scored over need ultimately adding to us exhausting resources and adding to the waste we have forgotten to be independent and are largely relying on companies to provide us the smallest of things that we need daily i think consumerism and capitalism are directly related to each other and thats making us use a lot of resources unnecessarily its also leading to waste of resources says shraddha who has shifted to a better lifestyle now she adds i have stopped buying clothes since a year and have also reduced the number of products that i use i learnt how to make products like shampoo toothpaste cream etc using natural ingredients