HOAX ......... !!

Hi all,

this is after a long sabbatical......(nothing new yeah)

well, this post is in response to the blog http://oxy-i-gen.blogspot.com/2010/03/sixth-great-extinction-event-end-is.html

i have been reading reports and seeing ads on saving tigers....saving monkeys...saving trees....going green...etc etc...

my observations of those are as follows.

1. Money spent on advertisements, franchise products is quite HUGE....i dont have published reports to substantiate the facts...but man, the ad on ' save tigers' appears not less than 15 times during a IPL match....hmm....ppl...money spent on creating awareness is good..but, so much money being spent is??? ...i dont know....?????

i strongly belive all these 'save' programes are more to show the softer side of the company ...which inturn is used for their professional motives......i dont think ' aircel ' has any noble motive to save tigers.......

2. There are bigger problems in the world than saving tigers....it is been estimated that, 1 person per 3.2 seconds dies of hunger......which means by the time you finish reading this line...someone had already died out of hunger............what do we say on that??...

some of the hard facts which still disturbs me more than these are.........

a. In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"


b. Every year 15 million children die of hunger


c. India's official poverty level, on the other hand, is split according to rural vs. urban thresholds. For urban dwellers, the poverty line is defined as living on less than 538.60 rupees (approximately USD $12) per month, whereas for rural dwellers, it is defined as living on less than 356.35 rupees per month (approximately USD $7.50). By this measure, only 27.5% of Indians live in poverty, whereas by the World Bank standard of $1.25 per day, 42% of Indians live in poverty - this is the third highest rate in South Asia after Bangladesh and Bhutan.

Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm & Wikipedia

d. etc etc etc........................

3. well....with all due respects to the vanishing species.......WE CARE FOR YOU..... but, i also request the readers to understand and prioritize their concerns ...

4. It is also law of nature for some species going extint....do we/ our children worry about the extinct dinosaurs...WE DONT........am sure, nature has its cycle....and in every species, there are additions and subtractions........its just complex mathematics

5. Global warming....i still strongly believe its a BIG HOAX.....i can understand summer being hotter/ changes in climate/weather etc etc etc.......well, for all informed readers am sure, u should be aware that, these have been happening for quite a long time....the reports of the climate summit @ copen heagan has been found erronous....

i do accept that the there are adverse effects on the nature due to the raising global temperature (??)...Pl. read this report for more light in the tunnel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_conspiracy_theory

6. Point here is....India, being a developing country has bigger issues to address (hunger, education, infrastructure, agriculture, etc etc)...has to FOCUS on those specific issues first...and let the Developed world take the bigger pie for 'Conserving Nature', as they are the ones who have any way spoilt them....

The conclusions are as follows

1. Think Locally....act globally (what we are doing is reverse)

2. lets be concerned to each other first....and then be concerned on other 'things'

3. I dont understand....when we have a 'patient' in-house, we go out-of-way to save our things and let loose the one in-house.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


4. let's RE-THINK..... and lets be rational............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


regards,
Gnaneswaran.M.G.