Mrs R: Can’t live on this earth anymore, it is getting more polluted by
the day. I am happy that a lot of research is being done to understand life on Mars.
Mr M: So you want to go and pollute Mars too? Astronauts’ finding say that Mars may have been a lively planet at one time but something caused its death. Could be pollution you never know.
Mrs R: Why do you say that?
Mr M: As the red planet has some water, so maybe it had streams and lakes findings say. Now it is full of carbon dioxide. Like the Earth which will soon have more of carbon dioxide than oxygen.
Mrs R: Well it is good that NASA is studying life on Mars so that we can understand our Earth better.
Mr M: Why go to Mars to understand what pollutes our Earth. NASA has taken pictures of how the state of Punjab burns rice straw and pollutes the city of Delhi.
Mrs R: NASA?
Mr M: Yes because it is difficult to find that out from earth, it has to be done from space.
Mr M: Now research says world over it is burning of rice straw that adds to pollution on earth.
Mrs R: So what is being done?
Mr M: Nothing is being done, only research findings, TV debates and political bickering.
Mr M: We invent spaceships to go to Mars but we cannot understand how better to burn rice straws on this earth. Last winter the city of Delhi blamed burning of paddy straw in Punjab for its toxic pollution levels and this year again it blames Punjab and next year again it will blame Punjab.
Mrs R: So better to find life on Mars then?
Mr M: Yes, as by the time they find life on Mars, Earth will be dead.