Industrial Emissions

Arising mostly out of industrial emissions, especially from burning coal fumes, mercury particles either conjoin with rain and snow to find way onto land towards water bodies or are ejected directly into deep waters by industrial houses. Into blue waters, they assume form of highly toxic methyl mercury which builds up into tissues of fishes and animals in high concentrations posing great health risk to regular consumers of contaminated fish. Exposed to developing foet uses, babies and children, mercury poisoning directly affects the nervous system, resulting in brain damage and learning disabilities. Agrees Classy D’Silva, a leading scientist at National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa. But according to her, mercury emissions in the past few years have actually gone down due to the central pollution board tightening its noose around polluting industrial units. An effort is worth applause, save the dampener in the form of excessive mercury levels in groundwater sources discovered near the former Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in 2002.

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Droughts Down under

The threat of global warming is creeping in faster than one can imagine. Rainfall patterns have changed with global temperatures increasing consistently over the last 50 years. The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard had publicly expressed concern over the anomalous drought situation which has dried up her rich food and crop cultivation areas. The drought that has been on for the past 6 years has sucked dry, once existing water resources. With its warm clime, Australia’s flatlands are more susceptible to global warming. Professor of Natural Resources Science at Adelaide University, Wayne Meyer says, “We are the ones that are going to be at the forefront because we’re less buffered”. The cultivation of fruit products saw an enormous hit due to the drought, pushing up prices. If measures of conserving water resources are not set and followed, the brunt would be borne by the generation very next to this one. Without serious thought and implementation of a sound system of allocation and use of water resources, the drought will not only continue but spread further as well . . .

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If you have it, flaunt it

‘Carbon’ and fashionable?...Of course!
Paper and plastic money are for the laymen, you cavemen! India Inc. is betting heavily on carbon money. Carbon here refers to credits (one carbon credit is equal to one tones of CO2) that companies can earn by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and selling them to those who need it, especially developed countries. No doubt, emissions reduction can foster sustainable development, create clean technology in a carbon-less economy and produce local benefits among others. But really, carbon credits have signify cant monetary value for India Inc.. Companies like Reliance Energy, Jindal Steel, Gujarat Ambuja, Grasim Cement and a few others have joined the race for earning emission reduction benefits, which has the potential of bringing in annual flows of as much as $300 million into India, and all simply by incorporating technological changes, which will lower carbon emissions and will enable these firms to sell those reduced emissions (read, credits).

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Environmental Protection Agency

In the US, states like California, Texas and New York are taking the cause with seriousness. California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stated in a symposium in California recently, “This is our race to the moon. And like that race, this too would be one giant leap for mankind.” He has vowed to make California “number one” in the fight against global warming (though the Bush government has recently refused to budge on a critical Environmental Protection Agency waiver that California sought to cut down emissions). The AB-32 bill by California mandates around 25% cut in carbon emissions in the state by 2020, which would bring it back to 1990 levels. Eleven states have now followed the California standard. Close home, Prodipto Ghosh, India’s Environment Secretary, has put forth that by the year 2020, India will have “more than a 25% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions.” Promisingly, some Indian businesses (600 odd, as on date) have been given incentives for carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol, and over 600 projects have already been approved.

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Mercury

This is, of course, about the fight against global warming; and about the ludicrous ideologies opposing it!
“Global warming?!? What global warming? Solve our damned water and electricity problems first and then we’ll talk about... what was that again?!?” Ask any average working Indian Joe about how worried he or she is about global warming, and we bet that the deeply choleric and ill-tempered scowl you see with the ruthlessly ‘warm’ and snappy retort mentioned above would be more than enough for you to conclude your search for enlightenment right there in your tracks... Relax, it happened to us too, and we hadn’t even started discussing the international analyst forecasts that because of global warming, India would suffer a major freshwater shortage by 2030... “2030?!??” Oh alright, we get it... But what about the really poor Indians? Allow us, please. You see, poor, homeless, destitute, illiterate, jobless Indians (400 million plus of them), really had it good before global warming set in. And now, they’re all running scared and worried stiff about the fearful destruction this ‘warming stuff ’ is going to unleash upon them... Got it? Phew, it’s already getting hot!

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An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

SOLAR TRUTHS

According to American energy independence, every square metre of Earth’s surface receives 1000 watts of energy from direct sunlight. The website estimates that even with an average efficiency of 15%, a square yard of solar photovoltaic cell can produce nearly 0.75 kilowatt hour of electric energy. India alone receives more than 4800 trillion KWH equivalent of solar energy annually, sufficient to meet all its energy requirements. The nation’s solar energy consumption has been consistently growing at 20% annually. Seeking out the opportunity large companies like Tata, BHEL and Moser Baer have entered the fray. Growing at 30%, Tata BP Solar has recently established its 38 MW plant, making it one of the largest solar energy players in the world. However, one shortcoming prevails. Photovoltaic cells are only 10% efficient and thus may not prove to be viable in the long run. Secondly a compact design for the equipment is still a distant dream.

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Ram, Adam or aam aadmi?

Giving a saffron tinge to green issues for vote bank is unwarranted
The controversy is that the 48 km long natural bridge made of shoals connecting India with Sri Lanka is threatened with destruction. The RSS and its political wing BJP is up in arms against government's move and have launched a national campaign to save Ram Sethu, because they see it as annihilation of Hindu cultural heritage. RSS and its associated organisations prefer to call the Adam’s Bridge (named by James Rennell, the first Surveyor General of British India) as Ram Sethu. Ashok Singhal, of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) told B&E, “The bridge is related to ancient saga of war between the good and the evil–how Lord Ram led his army using the viaduct to lay siege on Ravan in Lanka. And this was certainly one of the most invincible barrier in those times.” And as expected the Hindu organisations are raising the level of protest against destruction of the bridge for the sake of creating a navigable channel (connecting the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay through Adam’s Bridge). The channel will obviate the need for the ships plying between the east and west to go around Sri Lanka, thus reduce transit distance.

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Save Sunderbans!

Low lying Bangladesh may drown
Famous author Amitav Ghosh’s book, The Hungry Tide, on Sunderbans might have earned numerous accolades. But what’s really happening to the nation that inhabits the largest mangrove forest in the world? Built over the flood plains of Brahmaputra & Ganges, low-lying Bangladesh (3-7 feet above sea level) is on the verge of submergence. As predicted by environmentalists, the much debated global warming has led to large scale melting of Himalayan glaciers. And if serious steps are not taken now, this may lead to grave impacts by 2015. Brahmputra and Ganges, which join together in Bangladesh before falling into the Bay of Bengal, are filled by the melting snow of Himalayas. Deforestation in Bangladesh is one of the reasons that has led to a rise in the level of river beds, which has made floods not only recurrent, but disastrous. Since 1971, the frequency of the floods has augmented – 1974, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1998 & 2004. But the fear now is not floods. It is the likeliness of the complete submergence of the country. This is because as much as 15-20% of Bangladesh is already within 1 metre of sea level. Dr. Saugata Hazra of Oceanography Department, Jadavpur University told B&E, “The sea levels are likely to rise by5 mm/year.

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Plastic smiles

We have the world’s worst!
Environmental policy is oft en drawn in isolation, owing to the derisory participation of the victims. This is getting worse today, as millions of poor and victimized people are actually the major sufferers of environmental risks. The business of plastic callously passes the waste and residue after production, to the poorest in the land. Moreover, thousands of little hands are involved in collecting this hazardous waste and dumping it to proper allocated places. When we descend the economic ladder, the situation gets worse, as increase in the number of landfills and waste dumps cause a more than significant increase in diseases. For example, these activities give rise to intestinal parasite infection (92% incidence in Kolkata alone), abnormal pulmonary infection (among 23% dump-site workers) and also blood-borne infections.

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