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Population and Emission trading

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Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr. Jairam Ramesh announced that India will be eyeing 20-25 percent reduction in the carbon emission intensity . The announcement should be appreciated for we are seriously pondering at global climatic changes. What worried is the way he relates the concern with GDP and population. Relating Emission trading with GDP can be taken with a right sense. But, relating the GDP with population is intolerable. He is reaching the world and he is representing a country. H should have been careful about his statements. He said The GDP is low because the population is high. The country’s single biggest failure in the last 60 years has been that it could not control the birth rate. Population control as such should not be treated as a problem anymore. I have the following viewpoints about population control. It indulges with individual rights. Government shouldn't do that. Government is there to protect it not to prevent it. Government is not per

Wants, urges, climbing ladders and fixing targets

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Sometime back I was reading a book on human mind. I should say it was a good read. It dealt about wants and urges of mankind. I read that in our pursuit for something, at the dawn of the journey we are bound to take decisions based on what we are seeking. As more steps get underway, the experience drawn from previous steps decide the course of our travel. Its simply like climbing up a ladder. Fix the target first. Take one step at a time. Be careful that your current step is firmly placed. Take care while you move ahead, and reach the target. Alas! but ladders are not without snakes! The key point in climbing the ladder is we need to fix the target first. Fixing target needs careful analysis, We should analyze the problem space, decide what we want, fix the target and place the ladder. Once we fix the ladder we start moving ahead. Remember, ladder cannot be locomoted when you are on it. When you start climbing, be sure that the target is fixed. I have experienced this, when I try a n