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Monday, September 15, 2008

Obvious conflicts.


The global warming which increases the world temperature, will absolutely affect and harm water resources and finally food supply. And if we could not manage well this scenario from the beginning
it will eventually trigger conflicts, even wars among nations.
According to UNEP study, the most critical areas will cover almost all African continent, Mediteranian, and Sahel.
The climate change is just the beginning, and it will create a snowballing effects, and will culminate by the end of XXX century. We already witnessed long drought, shortage of water supply, soil degradedness, raising sea level, big flood, hurricanes, deadly viruses, smashed harvest, and lot more catastrophes. and all of them will encounter us more frequently shortly, whether we like it or not. The hurricanes, floods, and raising sea level are still threaten along the shorelines of China, India, and the US.
Whenever the Himalaya snow melt, it will cause the disappearance of water resources, which will affect the water supply in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Not to mention the climate change which affect and create hot spots and possible to destroy the tropical forests in Amazone, Congo, and Southeastasia.
All of them have and will create conflicts between regions, provinces, even nations. So, be prepared for the worst day that will come, sooner or later. Take care !

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Better world


In Living Planet Report (2006) the WWF for Nature cited that the ecosystem of our planet now, is going through to a very serious condition which never happened before in the human history.The degradedness
of the tropical/rain forests in Amazon, Congo, and Indonesia, for instance, are accelerating rapidly to an unthinkable collapse condition.
This circumstances, will eventually, like it or not, trigger shortages of both water and food supply in the world, not to mention hundred millions people will lost their home because of either flood or drought, and they become starving refugees.
Since Protocol Tokyo (1997) until UNFCCC (Bali 2007) there is no real action taken by industrial countries like USA which against both Tokyo Protocol and Bali Covention. Hard to iamgine this world wide movement which has a dominant role to make better world for all, without the participation of the Big Guy in the block, like the US.
Come on we're run out of time, act now, or we will feel sorry and miserable.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Go green !


Since Japan is not a rich natural resources country, the Japanese have been trying so hard to recycle everything, in order to save the world environment. From recycle the waste, both industrial and domestic waste, build the 'zero pollution' industrial estates, and produce the 'environment friendly' transportation modes.
Not to mention, Japan had already built the nuclear power plant which is friendly to the environment i.e Genkai Nuclear Power Station, where you can find that it's not a terrible place to visit,even for kids.
The eco-town project in Kitakyushu in 1997, had changed the whole atmosphere here, where people could enjoy the blue sky and fresh air, also more than 100 varieties of fishes live freely in the Bay of Dokai, where this is never happened before.
The producers of automobile in Japan also try hard to find a way to reduce the pollution problem from fuel cell combustion process, like produce the hybrid car until recycle the old and junk cars. Not only junk cars can be recycled but also another rubbish from trash of office equipments like copy machine, computer, printer, refrigerator, AC, TV, plastic, hospital equipments, washing machine, glass, lamp and many more.
So, go green folks,.... for better world !

Monday, July 28, 2008

The Age of Death



No doubt anymore that now, we"re living in the Age of Death, why ?
Because most people in the world are not paying attention properly and accordingly to the world environment, because we're just doing the business as usual, even just after the UNFCCC in Bali (2008) ended. We're , now start talking about how to increase the world production of oil and food as well, because we're approaching world crisis of both oil and food, which could absolutely trigger war between nation or perhaps social conflicts among people in the country or between countries.
To increase the supply of oil, we try to get from bio energy, this ,will eventually converte almost one third of food production for human, like corn, to bio energy and of course the price of of food for human will increase for less supply.
So, this just a paradox, where we can't increase the production of food if we use the same food to be a substitute of oil as bio energy, especially in the case of corn. Because of that dilemma, some country think to apply the nuclear energy and coal to increase their supply of energy to support their industries. On the other hand, we all know that all of them, i.e nuclear and coal are harmful to the environment.
It is likely that the 21st century is not better than the last 20th century, where a lot of bloodsheds happened, like World War I and II, The Bolshevik Revolution, The Holocaust, Vietnam War, and wars between tribes in African countries, and the bloodbath continues in the 21st century like war in Iraq and Afganistan, New York Bombing 9/11, terrorist bombing in Bali,
Jakarta, India, Spain, London, war in Bosnia,Tsunami disaster, earthquake in Yogyakarta etc.
But the most terrifying moment will happen, sooner or later, like it or not, if we don't care to the environment , we do not change our lifestyle, still do the business as usual, destroying the environment, greedy attitude in exhausting natural resources and a lot more bad habit toward a faster decaying process of mother nature. We're just awaiting our turn.
"Hodie mihi, cras tibi" ( Alexander the Great, 356 - 323 BC )

Friday, July 25, 2008

The doomsday scenario



Everybody understands well, if global warming will, eventually drew up the sea level all over the world. There will be no exception, but the most miserable group are the people who live in small islands, especially in the 'low-lying islands', which laid about one meter above sea level.
According to the study and analysis , the effect of global warming, if we don't do anything , by the end of this century the sea level will increase by about one meter.
It means that we will have a lot of numbers of immersing small islands all over the world, including 42 countries of small islands or SIDS ( Small Islands Developing States ) which is stretching from Asia, Africa, Pacific, Caribia and Mediterania.
If the sea level raises by one meter by the end of this century, the UNFCCC (2005) reported ,
Maldives will be wiped out from the world map, while Grenada and East Papua will loss about 50% of their shorelines.
Another threat will appear from the raising of the sea water temperature which will trigger the coral bleaching epidemic , where this will destroy the population of coral species and will make
an estimable economic loss , not only to the country itself, but also to the world.
This is just only the begining, if we, the people of the world still doing our business as usual , like
destroying the nature, maintain the extravagant lifestyle, and ignorance behaviour to the
environment, we, sooner or later will witness the worst things happen.
"Apres nous, le deluge" Mme Pompadour.
We have been witnessing a lot of disasters recently, and will realize a lot more catastrophes made by human shortly, not because the curse from God.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Bio energy


Since 2006, about 25 millions ton corn had already converted into bio energy as green oil.
The rough forecast of the consumption of corn to be converted into bio energy will be about six
times in 2010 . And in 2020 the projection of this program in the US, the Eurozone countries, and China will be about 300 millions ton/yr, 200 millions ton/yr, and 50 millions ton/yr respectively.
On the other hand, world corn production will be about 800 millions ton/yr , where half of the production will be absorbed in the cattle food production, not to mention corn for human food.
So, beside for human and cattle food, corn will also becoming a new source of bio energy.
To realize this program the US Government is preparing a massive and large scale production of corn by converting non-corn farm to be a corn farm, this policy explains why the price of soybean, wheat, and other agricultural products are getting higher recently.
The world has to feed world citizens that is getting bigger every time, on the other hand world farm land diminishes rapidly.
Le's put corn in its main function as human and cattle food , the bottom line is that we, all the people of the world, have to think again and again, whether we have to proceed the plan to convert corn into bio energy, or we have to change our life style.
After all the choice is ours, think about it !

Saturday, June 7, 2008

World food crisis


We're now getting into the cruel choice, the dilemma, the difficult choice between using corn as a human and cattle food or to converte them to bio energy as green oil.
Of course, the world will be divided into the pro's and con's, the rich countries sponsored by the US will, obviously, choose the green oil to support their life style, on the contrary the poor countries will favor corn for human and cattle food.
The soaring price of oil recently has triggered the idea of replacing fuel cells to green oil, produced from corn. This plan, which was proposed by the US President would like to replace 30% consumption of gasoline in the US by bio energy produced from corn.
This plan indicates that the US is preparing an ambitious, large scale and massive project to converte corn, which is originally consumed by both human and cattle, into green oil to substitute its fuel cells consumption.