Kochi: In case you happen to live or work in Kochi, you might have already seen the many blue hazard signs that blare out ‘Climate change zone ahead,’ at the many vantage points of the city including Marine Drive, Kochi. Prying pedestrians and inquisitive passers-by could not make out what they meant till the uniformed Greenpeace activists explained the underlying message of doom and danger of these messages.

Greenpeace rates Kochi as a high risk coastal city that would be badly hit by the climatic changes induced by global warming. The international environmental NGO is doing a yeomen’s service by spreading awareness about the climate change campaign in six different cities in the country, including Kochi.

It is never too late to take effective steps to counter the climate change threat caused by global warming opines the activists. Coastal cities would bear a major brunt of global warming due to the alarming rise in the sea level. Even a slight surge in the sea levels in Arabian Sea would lead to the flooding and erosion of land areas, which could wipe out a major chunk of the foreshore areas in the city.

Greenpeace activists, as part of their ‘Blue Alert’ climate change campaign has also put up the danger signs at three more places including Vasco Da Gama Square at Fort Kochi; Jews Street and Mattancherry.

Greenpeace officials said that they also plan to put up ‘eviction 2050’ notices at buildings that are located on the Kochi foreshore to remind the residents that these buildings would not survive beyond the year 2050, if adequate measures are not taken to tackle global warming. This campaign is undertaken to educate people on the drastic consequences that happen to each and everyone’s life as a result of the dangerous fallouts of climate change and to encourage them to take necessary steps to counter this universal threat that can spell doom to all living beings on planet earth!