GLOBAL WARMING – WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT ANYWAY

Loud, long and strong but useless talks are going on at the Global level for creating awareness and reducing Global warming for quite sometime now. In fact the developed countries are trying to create a new divide among the world community of Economic "haves" and "have nots" by trying hard to keep the developing countries as perpetually developing.

But do we, the self empathizing class called “common man” ever realize that we may be the largest group of unproductive emitters of Carbon-di-oxide world over, due to our environmentally unfriendly lifestyle, more than any other economic developmental activities. The second largest emission may come from the extravagant summit meets on Global warming conducted world over more as a ritual than with a purpose.

Take for example, each family in urban India (developing country) has atleast two vehicles for two working persons. If both of them decide to use a single vehicle to commute to their working places the following advantages are realized.

1) You get up more early in the morning, which reduces the number of hours the A/C runs in the bedroom, thereby reduction in CO2 emission. Waking-up early in the morning also is healthy in many ways.

2) Since we may be require to leave our home early we would end-up spending lesser time in the Wash-rooms and Bathrooms thereby lesser use of water and Water heaters resulting in lesser electricity consumed and reduction in CO2 emission. Many of us take bath for more often for pleasure than when necessary. The necessity can be complied within 10 minutes but pleasure lasts more than half-an-hour.

3) The burning of petrol on the second vehicle is the biggest reduction of CO2.

4) The reduction in traffic in the roads if each family follows the principle. The reduction in traffic reduces the time taken to commute which reduces the petrol consumption and hence emission of CO2.

5) Due to lower traffic we would spend lesser time idling in traffic signals, resulting in further lower emissions of CO2.

6) Lesser pollution due to burning petrol in the atmosphere, creates a healthy atmosphere.

7) We may be required to walk a little more to reach a convenient point for being picked-up by our family member at evening resulting in a healthy exercise to an otherwise dormant physical lifestyle.

8) We may reach home a little late, but it helps in reducing the time spent in front of the idiot box, resulting in lesser consumption of electricity and reduction in emission of CO2.

The intention here in this post is not to create a guiness record by preparing the biggest list of advantages, but just to throw light of awareness that a single act of adjustment in our lifestyle can lead to so much reduction in emission of CO2 into atmosphere and in the process enhance our health too.

Now it is for us to take a call on who is responsible to reduce the emission of CO2, the developed countries, developing countries, its leaders holding the summit meets on protection of environments or WE, the people of the world.

CATTLE CLASS ????????

Mr Tharoor has just proved how ungreatful a person can get. He got elected partly out of the votes of his so-called "Cattle Class". He also got elected to fully milk the so-called "Cattle Class". But there is least expression of gratitude when he uses the term "Cattle Class". Is that typical of an Indian politician?

HOW CAN THEY DO THAT ?????

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had given the job of designing and construction to Gammon India and the reason given by the authorities was that it was done to save costs. What a horrendous decision is this.

This is something like giving a caterer a lakh of rupees to prepare lunch for a thousand people and also giving him the freedom to choose the menu. Obviously he is going to serve you with Curd Rice and pickles while he prepares a feast for himself with the rest of the money. This is exactly what Gammon India have done for Delhi Metro Rail lines. Unfortunately just as sometimes the curd gets sour even before it is served, so has the structures built by Gammon India.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it."

- Author unknown

TALKING ABOUT DROUGHT, WHAT ABOUT THE FLOODS

It is shocking to find that the Government, political analysts, media and a whole lot of communities, who think they can successfully run the country with their oratorial abilities, are so much engrossed in shouting in resonance that the country is facing a situation of severe drought when there is a part of our country called “Assam” which is reeling in heavy flood even this year.

It is a horrific revelation of total non-governance and lack of Political will (I really don’t understand why it is such an importance feature of governance) on the part of Indian Democratic system, when this phenomena of flood in Assam and drought or shortage of rainfall in other parts of the country has been going on for decades now, that not a single tangible step has been taken to harness the flood water and divert it to regions with shortage of rainfall. People who talk about the cost of such an exercise should just put their heads and look at the amount spent in flood relief in Assam almost every year and compensation to farmers in other parts of the country every year, which would cumulate to a sum many more times higher than that would have taken to harness the flood water from Assam.

It is even more pitiable that today people have even stopped discussing the subject of floods in Assam in detail and are only shouting about the drought in Northern India.

INDIAN GOVERNING SYSTEM – FUELLED BY PRESSURE

I have been getting this feeling sometimes that the Indian governing system runs on the fuel called “Pressure”. Let me be clear that this fuel called “Pressure” is only meant to run the governance part of the Indian Government and not the non-governance activities which forms a major part of Indian Democratic system.

It is also that our governance system runs only on high degree of “Pressure”. Take the case of killing of a MBA graduate in Madhya Pradesh. The Government took action to investigate the case by CB-CID and then the CBI only after heavy “Pressure” from the public.

So we should all understand that we need to fuel the governing system of our country separately for separate functions. For governance activities, we need to fuel it constantly with “Pressure” and for Non-governance activities, anway we all know how to fuel it. I think the whole problem is that we have been using only the fuel meant for non-governance activities, whereby the process of governance has become a junk.

So jaago bharat jaago, we all have more than required “Pressures” in our life. Just keep releasing it on the Government, I am sure we will have a better governing system in place.

GENERAL LAWS OF LIFE

Got this as a forward. These are things happens to us almost daily. But when we find such things happen in the life of most of us, it becomes a General Law or Rule of Life.

LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

LAW OF TELEPHONE : When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

LAW OF BIO-MECHANICS : After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre, the next morning you will have a flat tyre.

BATH THEOREM: Whenever you are immersed in the tub, the telephone rings.

LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

THE ITCHY LAW : The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.

LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.