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A thing that “Must” be said, if it isn't now, then it would be Never !!Warning: Some Graphic Content AheadThis,this,These above heart-wrenching images are from around the world. And now see the below images,these are from the urban cities in India: Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi etcYesterday(22nd April 2018) was ‘World Earth Day’. There was much news on how to conserve energy and non-renewable sources. But, what we have been doing all these years? We are literally destroying ‘Mother Nature’ for our sole purposes, for our greedy needs by destructing the nature into bits and pieces. Such selfish humans, we are !And, these images are the proofs for deadliest pollution happening around the world !! Speaking of that, Pollution is the most underrated topic. When we see people discussing on “Pollution”, we often go like “Yeah, whatever” or “What we gonna do man, it’s all in hands of the Governments, we are not responsible for this !”.As humans, everyone is responsible for these.Back in my school days, I used to learn in science class about types of pollution, pollutants that could ruin the entire world causing catastrophic changes in the nature.India is the third largest in the emission of greenhouse gases after China and the United States. The severity of air pollution is so much that life expectancy among Indians on an average reduces by 3.4 years while among the residents of Delhi it reduces by almost 6.3 years.And, as I grew up the condition of the pollution levels became worse than expected.As per the estimates,there is no non-smoker in India. You may not even touch a cigarette, you may even be a just-born, but you still smoke the equivalent of 5-7 cigarettes a day. That is how bad the air pollution situation is, not just in Delhi (where it is worse) but all across the country.So how does the pollution form and how it affects us?Water: As 70% of the earth is covered with water, people actually assumed that all pollutants would be diluted and get disappeared. But in reality, they have not disappeared and their effects can be easily seen as they have entered the food chainAs per the estimates, the plastic in the sea increases drastically with time. If it gets exposed with UV rays, it would turn into harmful toxic substancesEffects:Due to these critical pollution levels from Land, Air, Water it depletes the Ozone layer causing severe global warming round the world.2015,2017 have been the Hottest Years ever. As time passes by, the temperature would be damn high, drying up all the rivers.So there comes the ‘Water Crisis’, ‘Food Crisis’, ‘Nature Crisis’. Let’s take a imaginative scenario which obviously would happen in our future(real time), shall we ?The Future Story of Ours:“One fine morning, you wake up and answer nature’s call. After that you want to freshup, but you realize, there is no water coming from the tap, you check the tank and it’s empty. You call up the maintenance guy, he takes the call and replies “Sorry Sir, we are facing some water issues. I will check for any backup and call you back”. You will be expecting for his call, but he won’t. Now you will manage somehow with your available drinking water, freshen up a bit,without bathing you go to office.After reaching office you feel relieved due to the cool air from the Air Conditioner.You go to the restroom for freshening up, but you find out that you are not the only one, but others waiting up in the queue. After few hours, there is power outage in the entire city. And this has happened, due to water scarcity in the hydro-electric power plants. Everyone is asked to leave the office premises and they declare holiday until they resolve these water issues.Now you planned to go back to your native since you can get all the resources you wanted to. But you will realize that it is happening everywhere, not just your place. You check on the internet and see the headlines,“Water scarcity is affecting millions of people across India. Especially the urban cities are mostly affected !!”There will be fights between states for water issues. Water crisis becomes severe as the days go on. The Central Government plans to take control of the situation by reducing the excessive usage of water and keep police forces at all Water Points, so as not to trigger any fights(already happening in South Africa)Cape Town will deploy army, police to protect water source after taps run dry on ‘Day Zero’.Up to 70 security forces will be assigned to each “high risk” water collection siteDue to this severe water crisis, animals on land and water, birds, insects etc, start to die. Oceans get polluted, beaches get contaminated and people become sick by consuming the water.And above all, Crops dry due to lack of water source leading to food crisis. There will be meetings at the UN and WHO and our prime leaders negotiate with other countries requesting for importing of food and water. But the same situation starts to happen everywhere leading to Global Crisis on major scale. There will be measures taken to tackle this situation, but it is of too late !!I don’t want to end the story on a tragic note, or I really don’t expect this situation to happen for real. A lot of us still believe that everything is okay, even if we pollute Earth and destroy its natural inhabitants, Oceans, Forests etc, nothing’s gonna happen.Sorry my friend, you are totally wrong !“Apocalypse need not happen with World Wars, it can happen anyway”- UnknownJust because we have all the resources for today & tomorrow, it doesn’t mean that it will be there ever after. Because,this ain’t a fairy tale or simulation in a Sci-Fi movie, we are in the damn ‘Real World’. All the living beings in this World are dependent on Air, Water and Land.If we destroy Nature, trust me it will destroy us back.So before we throw off that plastic wrapper or plastic bottle on the watery bodies(Lake,river,Sea,ponds etc), just remember there are these poor acquatic animals that becomes the victimsBefore we open the tap water and keep it running without use, just think there are people who walk kilometers to fetch water that only lasts for a day.Before we waste buckets of water for our bathroom singing or bodily pleasures, just remember there are these poor kids, who drink dirty water to satisfy their thirstAnd finally, before we plan to vacate earth and move to mars, let's not make this place a 'Living Hell’ for others !!Climate change is real, and remember just reacting to social media posts on pollution doesn’t stop the pollution, but actioning those does make the change !!Edit : Thanks a lot for all the Upvotes and Positive Comments. I request everyone who read this, kindly upvote so that it would be in everyone's quora feed !PS: All thanks to Rana Ashish for his answer on Rana Ashish's answer to What will you want to suggest to the youth (18-24) regarding relationship and study? which inspired me to write this :)Tagging all the Wonderful Quorans(Balaji Viswanathan (பாலாஜி விஸ்வநாதன்), James Altucher, Jimmy Wales, Robert Frost , Richard Muller , Sean Kernan Rana Ashish , Gopalkrishna Vishwanath, Odedra Vijay, Vijaya Lakshmi, Bhuvi Jain,Shefali Naidu, Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता), Stephen Fry, Marc Bodnick , Jake Williams , Akshay Tiwari, Anshul Sharma, Divya Sharma, Alcatraz Dey, Asim Qureshi, Avadhesh Khanna (अवधेश खन्ना), Jon Davis, Lukas Schwekendiek, Ben Y. Zhao , Franklin Veaux , Elena Ledoux , William Chen,Shovan Chowdhury, Matthew Bates, Ali O. AlShamsi,Sugandha Tulsyan) and every one of you amazing people, here to support this, so that something can be really done than being said !!Sources:‘Given the severity of air pollution, there is no non-smoker in India'A Comprehensive Study of Air Pollution in IndiaSouth Africa's water crisis spreads from Cape TownSouth Africa will deploy military to guard Cape Town's water once the taps are shut offCape Town will deploy army, police to protect water source after taps run dry on ‘Day Zero’Our Oceans: A Plastic SoupFrom sea to plate: how plastic got into our fish20 Facts About Ocean Pollution - Conserve Energy FutureCauses and Effects of Ocean Pollution - Conserve Energy FutureImages: Google (company)

I am going to answer this question from the standpoint of a Medical Office that has sometimes dealt with Patient Requests to get Utility Bill Waivers.Rule # 1: Electricity is NOT Free. The Electric Company WILL be Paid or the Power WILL be cut off.Rule # 2: The Fact that you have a Medical Condition that requires electrical Power means that the Responsibility to maintain that Power supply lies with the Resident or their Family Members at the address to make sure that the Utility Bill is Paid.Rule # 3: The Fact that a Resident may have a Medical condition that requires Power to maintain Life IS NOT THE UTILITY COMPANY’S RESPONSIBILITY. In these cases, the Utility company may have a special form or hotline to notify and flag a resident as being dependent-risk because they utilize Life-Support Equipment. When a Resident acct is flagged, it can usually result maybe in an extra month or more of leniency against a Delinquent Acct as the Resident or their representatives arrange for Payment or Relocation.NOTE— Even if you Notify the Utility that you have a Medical Condition that requires Power…Notification does NOT remove the Requirement to Pay any Amounts Past Due. The Utility Company MUST be Paid.In the case of the woman in this article…as tragic as it sounds, there was a failure of responsibility on the part of herself and her Family Members, even though, I gather she lived alone. A chronically Ill person who lives alone must be able to maintain their Basic Utilities: Heat, Electricity & Water.If this person is NOT capable of maintaining these accounts, it is up to their relatives, family members or a Legally Assigned Guardian to step in and take control of the accounts and make payments.If there are NOT ENOUGH FUNDS to maintain a Chronically Ill person in their residence, then it is the Responsibility of the Relatives, the Family Members or a Legally Assigned Guardian to make arrangements to make sure the person’s funds take care of their Basic Bills and accts or to arrange for cheaper accommodations…including the possibility of moving the person in WITH A CONSENTING FAMILY MEMBER OR RELATIVE.Failing that…the remaining option usually means Institutionalization. And Yes…that option can get really ugly. That’s why ‘Family is Important’. It’s the last bulwark.A Letter from a Doctor WILL NOT ELIMINATE THE UTILITY BILL.In Fact, a Letter from a Doctor to the Utility will invoke the mailing of a SPECIAL FORM to that Doctor. If the Doctor Signs it, it re-assigns the Responsibility for Payment from the PATIENT to the DOCTOR or MEDICAL FACILITY.And NO DOCTOR will Sign that form.There is also a Form and a Process wherein a Family Member or Relative Can Assume Direct Responsibility for the Patient’s Electric Bill. The Bill would then be re-directed to the NEW ADDRESS Under the Relative’s or LEGAL GUARDIAN’s name.And the Past Due Amounts WILL STILL BE DUE.Judging from the Article— No-one in this woman’s Family was willing to take responsibility for her Bill. Nor were they willing to relocate her. No-one wanted, or were able, to take her in to their Homes.But Unfortunately, I am guessing that her personal funds were insufficient to cover her monthly costs on more than one level.In short— there is a widespread misconception that if a person is Elderly and Critically Ill, that Utility Bills can be ‘Waived’This is FALSE.Fail to Pay the Oil Company…and they WILL Cease Delivery even if it is the Middle of Winter.Fail to pay the Gas Company…and they WILL cut off your Gas supply to your Water Boiler, your Water Heater and your stove, even if it is the Middle of the Winter.Fail to pay the Electric Company…and they WILL cut off your power to EVERYTHING.There can be some Delay…but there are no Waivers.Utility Bills MUST be Paid.EDIT— a Commenter posted a Link to the NJ PSE&G ‘Bill of Rights’The BOLD is my Translation of what it Actually means…You shall not be asked to pay unreasonably high deposits as a condition of service, or to make unreasonable payments on past due bills. Focus on the word ‘Reasonable’. The Delinquent customer does not get to determine what ‘Reasonable’ is. The Utility Co Delinquent Accts Rep does. They do not say what financial formula they use.You may have the right to budget billing if you are an electric and/or natural gas customer. Note the word MAY. It’s there for a Reason. It’s a Legalism. Take the word MAY out and the sentence reads differently. Here in NY, we also have a Budget Billing option from Con Ed. It is not generally offered as an option because of Past Due Unpaid Amounts.You are entitled to at least one deferred payment in one year. This means you can go ONE month without the Power Company receiving Payment. Think of this you are away on Vacation when the Bill comes. This may also be the case with NY Con Ed, but I’m not sure (Con Ed’s Bill of Rights is suspiciously hard to get a hold of) But I DO know that if no Payment is received TWO consecutive months, a Termination order will be started.You have the right to have any complaint against your utility handled promptly by that utility. What’s not said here is whether the complaint should be done IN WRITING and then FAXed or MAILED. Or maybe there might be an Online Form. Sometimes, a Phone Call is NOT Sufficient. The Complaint must be DOCUMENTED.You have the right to call the Board of Public Utilities to investigate your utility complaints and inquiries. Your service may not be terminated for non-payment of disputed charges during a BPU investigation. Now we’re talking to a Governmental Agency. Again, Documentation is generally MANDATED. If it’s a Medical related complaint, then you need to have the Doctor’s Letter, the Form, everything stamped and dated. Again…just a Phone call is NOT sufficient. And while the case is being Review—The METER is STILL TICKING.If you suspect it is not working properly, you have the right to have your meter tested, free of charge, once a year by your utility. For a $5 fee the meter test will be conducted under the supervision of the staff of the BPU. This is straight forward. But the Meter is RARELY the problem.You have the right to a written notice of termination, ten days prior to the discontinuance of service. In NY, Con Ed will send that Notice after the third UNPAID month, like clockwork. To People who say: “I never got any such notice…” That game does not work today.Residential service may be shut-off, after proper notice, Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A utility may not shut-off residential service on Friday, Saturday, Sunday or a holiday or the day before a holiday or if a valid medical emergency exists in your household. Note the Word VALID medical emergency. VALID means: The Utility has been Properly Notified of the Medical Life Support condition with the Requisite Forms signed and validated by a Licensed Physician and an Arrangement via your Doctor, a Hospital or some other Government Agency for PAYMENT to be MADE. It does NOT mean you tell the Power Company: “My aunt has a heart condition and you can never turn the power off.”And Again— If you’ve Waited until the DAY OF the Power Cut-off.It means you ALREADY had not paid ANY Past Due Bill for at least 2 months.It means you did not make any PARTIAL Payments for the past 2 months…or you made INSUFFICIENT Below Reasonable Amounts (Again— The COMPANY decides what is ‘Reasonable’… not you)It means your Past Due Amount and length of Delinquency disqualifies you for ‘Budget Billing’It means you failed to respond to Calls and Letters.By this point, crying Medical Emergency is like plugging a hole in the dike with your finger while the River is flooding its banks all around you.

Simulate Navy Life at HomeWays to Simulate Navy Life at HomeLock all friends and family outside. Your only means of communication should be with letters that your neighbors have held for at least three weeks, discarding two of five.Surround yourself with 200 people that you don't really know or like: people who smoke, snore like Mack trucks going uphill, and use foul language like a child uses sugar on cereal.Unplug all radios and TVs to completely cut yourself off from the outside world. Have a neighbor bring you a Time, Newsweek, or Proceedings from five years ago to keep you abreast of current events.Monitor all home appliances hourly, recording all vital information (ie: plugged in, lights come on when doors open, etc.)Do not flush the toilet for five days to simulate the smell of 40 people using the same commode.Lock the bathroom twice a day for a four-hour period.Wear only military uniforms. Even though nobody cares, clean and press one dress uniform and wear it for 20 minutes.Cut your hair weekly, making it shorter each time, until you look bald or look like you lost a fight with a demented sheep.Work in 19-hour cycles, sleeping only four hours at a time, to ensure that your body does not know or even care if it is day or night.Listen to your favorite CD six times a day for two weeks, then play music that causes acute nausea until you are glad to get back to your favorite CD.Cut a twin mattress in half and enclose three sides of your bed. Add a roof that prevents you from sitting up (about ten inches is a good distance) then place it on a platform that is four feet off the floor. Place a small dead animal under the bed to simulate the smell of your bunkmate's socks.Set your alarm to go off at ten-minute intervals for the first hour of sleep to simulate the various times the watchstanders and nightcrew bump around and wake you up. Place your bed on a rocking table so you are tossed around the remaining three hours. Make use of a custom clock that randomly simulates fire alarms, police sirens, helicopter crash alarms, and a new-wave rock band.Have week old fruit and vegetables delivered to your garage and wait two weeks before eating them.Prepare all meals blindfolded using all the spices you can grope for, or none at all. Remove the blindfold and eat everything in three minutes.Periodically, shut off all power at the main circuit breaker and run around shouting "Fire! Fire! Fire!" and then restore power.At least once a month, force the commode to overflow to simulate a "black water system" boo-boo.Buy a gas mask and smear it with rancid animal fat. Scrub the faceshield with steel wool until you can no longer see out of it. Wear this for two hours every fifth day especially when you are in the bathroom.Study the owner's manual for all household appliances. Routinely take an appliance apart and put it back together.Remove all plants, pictures and decorations. Paint everything gray, white, or the shade of hospital smocks.Buy 50 cases of toilet paper and lock up all but two rolls. Ensure one of these two rolls is wet all the time.Smash your forehead or shins with a hammer every two days to simulate collision injuries sustained onboard Navy ships.When making sandwiches, leave the bread out for six days, or until it is hard and stale.Every ten weeks, simulate a visit to another port. Go directly to the city slums wearing your best clothes. Find the worst looking place, and ask for the most expensive beer that they carry. Drink as many as you can in four hours. Take a cab home taking the longest possible route. Tip the cabby after he charges you double because you dress funny and don't speak right.Use fresh milk for only two days after each port visit.Keep the bedroom thermostat at 2 deg C and use only a thin blanket for warmth.Ensure that the water heater is connected to a device that provides water at a flow rate that varies from a fast drip to a weak trickle, with the temperature alternating rapidly from -2 to 95 deg C.Use only spoons which hold a minimum of 1/2 cup at a time.Repaint the interior of your home every month, whether it needs it or not.Remind yourself every day: "It's not just a job, It's An Adventure!Mix kerosene with your water supply to simulate the de-sal plant on the ship picking up jp5 in the intake -- if a lit match thrown into your coffee pot doesn't ignite it, add more kerosene.Stand outside at attention at dawn and have the poorest reader you know read the morning paper out loud. Be sure to have him skip over anything pertinent.Every four hours, check the fluid level in your car's radiator. Check the tire pressure and replace air lost from excessive pressure checks. Be sure to place red tag on ignition stating "DANGER: DO NOT OPERATE" while you perform these checks. Inform your neighbor as to the results of these checks, have him tell you to repeat the checks because he did not see you perform them.Paint your house gray (exterior) include windows except for rooms you do not frequent, paint your car gray, paint your driveway a different shade of gray.Clean your house until there's absolutely not a speck of dust anywhere. Call on a stranger to come inspect your house. Ensure stranger sees dust that has collected in the time it took to find him. Stranger cannot leave until he finds irrational fault with your house/belongings.More Ways to Simulate Navy Life at HomeBuy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight.Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls.Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement "deck gray."Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go the scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 per beer until you're hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold.Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower.On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesday and Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. On Saturdays, and Sundays declare to your entire family that they used too much water during the week, so all showering is secured.Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling.Have your next door neighbor come over each day at 5am, and blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout "Reveille, Reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in the back yard at 6am and read it to you.Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days straight, then lock the bathroom door for 12 hours, and hang a sign on it that reads "Secured - contact OA DIV at X-3053."Submit a request form to your father-in-law, asking if it's ok for you to leave your house before 3pm.Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over, then board up all the windows and doors to your house for 6 months. After the 6 months is up, take down the boards, and since you're on duty, wave at your friends and family through the front window of your home...you can't leave until the next day.Shower with above-mentioned friends.Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your home (i.e. Dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc)Walk around your car for 4 hours checking the tire pressure every 15 minutes.Sit in your car and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly "lit off".Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need it or not.Repaint your entire house once a month.Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any spice and seasoning you can get your hands on.Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, randomly losing every 5th item.Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch CNN and the Weather Channel.Have your 5-year-old cousin give you a haircut with goat shears.Sew back pockets to the front of your pants.Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of Europe, and call it "world travel."Attempt to spend 5 years working at McDonald, and NOT get promoted.Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors have gone to bed.When your children have been in bed for 3 hours, run into their room with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs that your home is under attack, and order them to man their battle stations.Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that you are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for at least an hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they don't pay attention to the menu any more, they just ask for hot dogs.In the middle of January, place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have you family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals.Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6 weeks. Then tell them that at the end of the 6th week you're going to take them to Disneyland for "weekend liberty". When the end of the 6th week rolls around, inform them that Disneyland has been canceled due to the fact that they need to get ready for E-cert, and that it will be another week before they can leave the house.Even More Ways to Simulate Navy Life at HomeSleep on the shelf in your closet.Replace the door with a curtain.Four hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble, "Sorry wrong rack".Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the showerhead down to your chest level.When you take showers make sure you turn off the water while soaping.Every time there is a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "high".Don't watch TV except for movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.Leave your lawnmower running in your living room for 24 hours a day for the proper noise level.Have the paperboy give you a haircut.Once a week blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot across to your neighbor's house. Laugh at him when he curses you.Wake up every night and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. Optional: canned ravioli or cold soup.Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed, get dressed as fast as you can, then run into your backyard and break out the garden hose.Once a month take apart every major appliance and then put them back together again.Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5-6 days before drinking.Invite 100+ people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.Install a fluorescent lamp on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.Raise the threshold and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through.Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "man overboard, ship recovery!", run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".Put on the headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in). Go stand in front of your stove. Say (to no one in particular) "stove manned and ready". Stand there for 3-4 hours. Say (once again to nobody) "stove secured". Roll up the headphone cord and put it away.When it rains. Get two empty coke bottles, tie them together, and hang them around your neck. Go outside and stand in the rain for four hours. From time to time look through the coke bottles and observe the horizon and lightning.Put on a clean white suit, then go change the oil in your car.