Make a Difference!!!!

This is the first time I traveled during peak hour after shifting to my home...a year and a half after I shifted. And I noticed huge traffic jams everywhere! Infact, I was stuck in one for alomst 45 mins! Everywhere around me, I saw cars and buses stuck in jams. So many cars.......so much light pollution; air pollution; noise pollution. Stuck in the traffic jam I thought if people just think of the environment, start carpooling, or use public transport, would something happen? Will something happen to their status? Now, people who travel by public transport are actually respected! As travelling in big and expensive cars has become a status symbol, people hate travelling by the metro or the buses, either because its crowded or because they want to boast about their wealth. I have seen so many people travelling in SUVs to their offices, they sitting behind and their driver driving. Why do they have to do that? Why do we want to waste so much fuel and pollute the environment just because travelling through public transport is just too cheap for our status? Have we ever thought what would happen to us when the environment is damaged beyond repair? Its as if killing the environment is the only option. And killing the environment is killing us; killing humanity. So why not just use public transport and reduce jams and pollution and make India a quite country? If 30 million people owning cars use public transport, the government can improve of our public transport too! If we make an effort, the government bodies have to do something right? How are they going to do something when we ourselves dont cooperate? If we carpool or travel by buses what difference would it make?  Isn't it our responsibility, as human beings, to see that our environment isn't getting affected by our activities? Because whatever befalls nature, befalls its children! Which includes us too! We are dooming the earth to irreversible damage! Its time we understand this, and not only look at our benefits. I am doing my bit. Are you?