maybe the human beings need a disaster which will remind all of us that we are human beings first and americans,indians,hindu,muslim,christians later.. I hope (against all historical evidence) that we can learn from our mistakes and men dour ways while there is still time.. i hope we can start taking shopping bangs from our homes the way we used to do it in 70's and 80's and not rely on plastic bags from shops.. i hope and i pray....
RE:maybe we need a disaster
by Supreo Mukhopadhyay on Oct 23, 2007 08:14 PM Permalink
Fantastically said. Unless we remove our regional, religious and economical bias, we as mankind will not be getting to far from being the heckled lot that we are of our own doing! War, terrorism, poverty and discrimination will not abate unless we learn to respect each other as a human first.
Sir, I wish the author also went ahead and gave an opinion of how India could reduce carbon emissions. We have a large number of poor and lower middle class people, who have great aspirations for products and services that make the quality of their lives better, which is presently enjoyed by only a minority. Should we curb our desires or should we use science and technology more efficiently to invent new ways to consume less resources? Or should we do both? In what all ways? Politicking and canvassing will always go on. Yes, we should be aware of it and try and lessen the evils therein.
RE:Climate change
by sajith Pillai on Oct 23, 2007 06:39 PM Permalink
There are enumerous ways that India can select from when it comes to energy generation without sacrificing our dreams and aspirations. 1. Sign up the neuclear deal so that majour uranium resource holder like australia could supply us uranium. 2. We have thorium resource that we can try to use to generate power from neuclear plants.3 India is blessed with abundant sunshine. Make it mandatory for offices, malls and even big houses to setup solar panels. 4. Set up solar panel fields. 5. Make public transport efficient so that people would use them to travel. 6.Set up sophisticated waste incinerating plants that would generate electricity. 7. Ban usage of old polluting vehicles 8. Promote municipalities, farm lands to use their own electricity by usage of windmills/solar panels 9. Acquire technology to generate power from other reneuable souces like sea-waves. We can have as our model self sufficient cities in countries like Denmark, Sweden and Germany. The quality of air there is so high that instead of wasting their money on hospitals they use it efficiently on de-centralised power generation. No wonder they are called *developed*
