Global Warming and Human Population

At the time of recent summit of international leaders on carbon dioxide gas emission and the resulting global warming, everywhere there were discussions going on the topic. That heat is subdued now as if the problem is solved while it is far from getting a solution. Such a heat and later calm shows how serious we are on the issue. It looks like a noise of frogs at the monsoon time. had we been serious about the problem, it would not have raised its head. All the discussions were focused on blaming somebody else for the problem.

The real problem is with every one of us, and our refusal to accept it. I intend to discuss the real problems that are causing the global warming and climate changes. In one previous post on tis blog, I have already taken up the issue of  'Global Warming and Building Construction Traditions. Here is another important reason for global warming and that is Human population explosion in developing and under-developed world.
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Human population increment beyond a limit puts undue pressure on global resources and to feed the needs, we have to overstretch our capacities of productions. This requires more consumption of electricity, and more burning of fuels  Both these factors add to more emission of carbon dioxide into the environment and the climate gets changed. Thus the root of the problem is not the emission itself but the demands of burning more fuels and producing more of electricity caused by human population explosion. Therefore the solution also lies in devising ways to contain population through penalizing those countries contributing to population explosion. To ame, India is one such country which is badly mismanaged in this regards and a cause of the climate changes.

Another aspect of global warming through rise in population is conversion of foods in to heat by hman bodies. When the atmospheric temperature remains at 25 degrees Celsius on an average, human body's inner temperature remains at about 38.5 degrees. This temperature difference is maintained by the body through biochemical reactions inside generating heat from decomposition of food intakes. When the population is dense, this ammounts to a huge heat continuously being generated by human bodies with the population feeling heat in the atmosphere. Nobody realizes that he/she him/herself is contributing to this heat of the atmosphere.

Unless problem of rise in human population is solved, no relief in the matter of global warming and climate changes can ever be expected by the humanity.

A Lesson from Haiti Disaster

Disaster caused by an Earthquake on January 12, this year of scale 7.0 has been very immense and unfortunate for those suffering. It struck 10 miles south of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince affecting an estimated 2.5 to 3 million people and the capital city is almost fully ruined.

Many voluntary organizations have sent their volunteers to the devastated country for rescue operations Even 8 days after the devastation, after-shocks of the earthquake continued causing rock-sliding and making rescue operations difficult. here. I intend to examine why such colossal disasters do take place.

Nature has its blind principles of working without any creator who could think what is right or wrong for the humanity. On the other side, humanity has its own designs of development to seek comforts and conveniences. These two designs work without any care for each other. And this is the main cause of frequent disasters humanity is made to face.

Humanity may follow its own path but for that it has to tame the nature not to interfere with its designs. But humans go on treading their own path without taming the nature which is, indeed, not tamable by humanity. Under te circumstances, the humanity has no way but to take care of nature and its principles.

Rapid and mass-scale urbanization being pursued by humanity does not fit into the designs of nature and it strikes these down again and again. But humanity is also determined to follow its path without bothering for nature in-spite of the frequent disasters faced by it. Had there been developments of widespread villages in Haiti, and elsewhere in the world, the possibility of disaster shall get minimized. As far as human comforts and conveniences are concerned, these cold be achieved through wide spread development of villages all over the globe. Just consider, with mass-scale urbanization, the inhabited area of land is only 3 percent of the available land. With wide-spread rural development, this area shall go up to about 5 percent of the available land without harming any sector of human life.

The Haiti disaster provides an opportunity, as well as a warning, to rethink on its development strategies of urbanization. Let us think again before adding a single brick and mortar in any of the cities on the globe. 

Why a Person commits Suicide

Globally, millions of persons attempt to commit suicide every year and about a million succeed in their attempts. This tendency is found to be more in the persons of 15-25 age group and females are more prone to impulsive decisions to end their lives.

It is a sort of mental weakness to face the real world situations that discourages the person to stand up boldly to face the world. Some psychologists are of the opinion that it their fearlessness that encourages them to take an impulsive decision to die. I strongly differ with this opinion. On the contrary, I am of the opinion that it is their fear of inability to face the reality of life that pushes them towards preferring death. Their realization that continuous pain of living shall be much more than the momentary pain of death makes them to take a decision to commit suicide. So, they are not prepared to tolerate pain of living and try to eliminate it through adopting death. 

Harming oneself, particularly ending one's life, is not a desirable act for anybody at any time but for some at some moments, suicide looks safer than bearing the life-long harms at the hands of their circumstances and they try to end their lives. .      


A normal person bears an emotional shock just because he gets time to recover from its ill effects before getting another shock wave. But in case of a suicide, strong and quickly repetitive emotional shocks do not provide the person any opportunity to recover and devoid him/her of even normal courage of a human being.  .

During a suicide attempt, life is not switched off instantly but with some mental and physical  preparations which themselves need some time. So, decision to end life can not be impulsive but resulted through a high speed accumulation of feelings that the pain of death shall be much less than that of living further. The high-speed of accumulation of feelings makes the decision to look like impulsive.

Production Processes : Natural versus Human

The world is ever-changing through productions and decays. Production is being done through natural processes like procreation and transformations and through artificial processes devised by humans. here is a comparison of the two processes and their limitations. 

Nature produces things on mass-scale and then selects some of them for further survival rejecting and destroying all others. This means that not everything produced by Nature is kept safe and utilized purposefully. Consider for example, sperms in semen which are in millions in every drop of semen, but only a few in some cases only one, is allowed to participate in procreation for which the sperms are produced and stored. All the rest are allowed to die out. But in women, each and every egg is allowed to participate in the procreation subject to its mating with a compatible sperm. In olden days, every couple used to produce children on every possible opportunity but not all could survive the tough circumstances of Nature. Only a few, more capable, were allowed to survive and procreate further. 

Contrary to this, human-devised processes of production are more efficient to the extent of 100 percent applicability through modern management tools such as Total Quality Management (TQM). This indicates that these production processes are more efficient than those devised and adopted by the Nature. 

Now, let us probe whether the Nature has some purpose behind its apparent inefficient ways of production - producing in large numbers and rejecting most of its production. We don't tend to believe that there is no specific purpose behind and the Nature is inefficient by its nature itself.

On deep pondering, we see that the Nature produces on mass scale but every unit so produced is different from all others, meaning thereby that there are no replicas or equivalents. See facial features of all humans and you will find each one is unique and distinguishable from all the rest. This is such a feature of natural production which human fail to adopt in their production processes. 

Another great feature of natural production is abundance of resources making their free usage in producing a lot even for perishing. The perishing itself adds to natural resources for newer production. Thus, there is no misuse of resources but a recycling of these. Conversely, humans have no such recycle-ability of resources and feel resource-crunches for their production processes, hence optimize them.  


The uniqueness of each unit produced by Nature tells us something more important than we can perceive superficially. It is the way of evolution process of Nature making every unique unit with differently evolved attributes. After such units come into existence, these need to survive in the tough natural environment wherein majority of these perish. The survivors are only those which had better evolved attributes. Thus, the nature produces, tests and then keeps its better evolutions for onward procreations. This is akin to what is popularly known as 'survival of the fittest'.  

Global Warming and Building Construction Traditions

Climate of the earth is changing for the last one decade or so, and the situation has reached alarming stage, a lot of anxiety is being shown for a reversal. The problem is being tried to be solved through controlling the effect and not by eliminating the cause. Many factors have caused climate changes but the whole blame is being put on emission of green house gases from industrial processes. But the causes of these are being totally eclipsed from considerations of reversing climatic changes also known as global warming. One of the causes of global warming is the way humanity is constructing buildings for its uses. Various aspects for building constructions adversely affecting climate are as follows -


Vertical to Horizontal Developments
Rapid urbanization of land on earth is being adopted through constructing high-rise buildings, on the plea of reducing requirement of land for constructing buildings for accommodating ever-increasing population and providing work spaces for the population. Why this worry for reducing requirement of land? Just because the land owners in urban areas want more wealth against their land and they are controlling the issue. Otherwise, there is no dearth of land on earth. Merely 3 percent of land is being used for all the rural and urban settlements on the globe. So, enough land is available for single-story building constructions to meet all human needs. Sch horizontal development shall eliminate many problems humanity is facing today. One problem created by vertical developments on earth is that of global warming.
Every high-rise building has to be made of concrete mortar which gets quickly heated and quickly cooled due to heat from the Sun. This requires more of electricity consumption for heating and cooling of buildings for making them comfortable to human-beings apart from that needed for lifts, etc. More of electricity means more burning of fossil fuels for generation. This again warms the climate adding more to the problem.  
Solution to the problem, in this respect, lies in constructing single-story buildings on the ground. This will foster a more uniform development and ease crowding problems of urbanization. This will, however, increase travelling distances but this cost increment shall be compensated for by solving many problems of urban lives today.    


Underground Constructions

Going for under-ground buildings wherever possible is another solution for problem of rapid heating and cooling of buildings. Such buildings maintain an average temperature over the year and very little electricity shall be needed for living in such buildings. Of course, lighting remains a problem in underground constructions for which buildings need be designed taking this factor into consideration. This shall curtail need of electricity for residential and office buildings. 


Concrete Avoidance
Another step needed is to reduce use of concrete in buildings and in-stead going in for hollow bricks and walls for building constructions. On the ground constructions, many people all over the world are constructing their hoses from bamboos and mud and they feel much better health-wise as compared to their urban counterparts. Such traditional constructions are very cost-effective also and may be improved upon to meet the needs of modernity.