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A LOST SPECIES

Twentieth century

The 20th century is often portrayed as a time of barbarism, when increasingly powerful weapons killed on an enormous scale, oppressive dictatorships flourished and national, ethnic and religious conflicts raged.

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• Yet 20th century was also a time when

people lived longer, were healthier and

more literate, enjoyed greater participation

in politics and had far easier access to

information, transport and communication

networks than ever before. Good & Evil

marches on.

• In 21st century, will there be trouble?

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Bhrighu Nadi prophetic readings: From 2011, crisis deepens as money will lose its value fast in the U.S. and in Europe. This will result in wrong economic and financial policies - on the assumption of hopes for a continuous economic growth. In 2012 the U.S. financial system collapses. The state will no longer be able to pay its employees. This will lead to a chain response and chaos in the society as a whole. Many shops, factories and banks will become bankrupt, more and more people will be without work, and thus without livelihoods.

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The palm leaf text volume "prophesied"

contains forecasts concerning the further

development of Europe and western hemisphere.

The economic situation leads to conditions that will

resemble a civil war in the east and west United

States. The decline of the U.S. economy and the

depreciation of the U. S. currency seriously hits

Europe, in particular Germany, which is largely

dependent on exports.

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Inflation in Europe reaches proportions as in the

United States, and its implications, especially for

poorer sectors of the population, is catastrophic.

Many people will live in real poverty. Since 2017

the situation will be somewhat calmer, but only

seemingly. A changing climate becomes rapidly an

acute threat . The average annual temperature

will continue to increase; climate change will

affect the U.S.

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Will human society be overwhelmed by

• Overpopulation,

• Global warming / Climate change,

• Diseases and

• Warfare

Shall we overcome these?

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The probability of the extinction of the human

species in the near future is not deniable.

While technological advances encourage huge

population explosions, they also bring new risks of

sudden population collapse through industrial

pollution, nuclear war, etc.

Often overlooked risks of natural disaster ranging

from asteroid strikes to nanotechnology run amok

and universe annihilation is a natural possibility.

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Think of the grim assessment of the odds

against human survival, and the effort and

restraint that will be needed to beat the

odds. Hello! It‟s O.K.

Argument does not imply fatalism, since

our efforts can change the probabilities?

Mankind has produced a Mother Theresa

and also, a Osama Bin Laden.

Can mankind survive by mitigating effect of global warming /

CLIMATE CHANGE due to greenhouse effect?

„Greenhouse effect‟

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„Greenhouse effect‟

A rise in Earth‟s surface temperature

because incoming radiation is less easily

re-radiated into space.

Global surface temperature increased 0.74

± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) between the

start and the end of the 20th century.

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Scientists are making predictions about the

ill effects of Global warming and connecting

some of the events of the past few decades as an

alarm of global warming. A rise in earth‟s

temperatures can lead to other alterations in the

ecology, including

• an increasing sea level and

• modifying the quantity and pattern of

rainfall.

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These modifications may boost the

occurrence of

• severe climate events, such as

• floods,

• famines,

• heat waves,

• tornados, and

• twisters.

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Other consequences may comprise of

• higher or lower agricultural outputs,

• glacier melting,

• lesser summer stream flows,

• genus extinctions and

• rise in the ranges of disease vectors.

Due to global warming various new diseases have emerged

lately: since the bacteria can survive better in elevated

temperatures and even multiplies faster when the conditions

are favorable.

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The global warming is extending

• the distribution of mosquitoes due to the increase

in humidity levels and

• their frequent growth in warmer atmosphere.

Various diseases due to

• ebola,

• hanta and

• machupo virus are expected due to warmer

climates.

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The marine life is sensitive to the increase in

temperatures. The effect of global warming will

definitely be seen on some species in the water.

A survey was made in which the marine life reacted

significantly to the changes in water temperatures.

Many species may die off or become extinct due to

the increase in the temperatures of the water,

whereas various other species, which prefer warmer

waters, will increase tremendously.

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An approach to mitigation is Carbon capture and

storage (CCS). Emissions may be sequestered from

fossil fuel power plants, or removed during

processing in hydrogen production. When used on

plants, it is known as bioenergy with carbon

capture and storage. Mitigation of global warming

is accomplished through reductions in the rate of

anthropogenic greenhouse gas release.

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There are key practices and technologies in

various sectors, such as energy supply,

transportation, industry, and agriculture that

should be implemented to reduce global

emissions.

Mitigation of global warming is accomplished

through reductions in the rate of

anthropogenic greenhouse gas release.

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Electricity can be produced without significant

carbon emissions using nuclear power and

renewable energy technologies, such as solar,

wind, hydropower, and biomass (fuels made from

plant matter). Biofuels can also be used to power

vehicles. Interest in these technologies

is growing, and research and development could

make all of them more viable, but each renewable

energy technology carries its own set of issues

and challenges.

Poisoning by pollution

And, at least in the short term, severe

pollution seems almost inevitable when

uncontrolled population growth is

combined with demands for

an acceptable standard of living.

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You don‟t need dire predictions about

Apocalypse 2012 to freak out a little about all

the weird stuff we‟ve invented that could destroy

the world. More than enough biochemical

weapons are stockpiled around the globe,

starting with mustard gas, a deadly paralytic

agent left over from World War I, on through

anthrax, sarin, and a variety of other classified

compounds.

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OVERPOPULATION?: The world's population

doubled between 1940 and 2000 (to reach six

billion), with 90 per cent of the total growth in the

1990s taking place in the non-industrialized

regions of the world. Population increases were

accompanied by rapid urbanization, unplanned

and unsupported by improvements in the urban

infrastructure. Such rapid demographic change

caused increasing social pressures, which could

lead to social instability and conflict.

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OVERPOPULATION

Myth A: The world is overcrowded and population growth is adding overwhelming numbers of humans to a small planet. In fact, people do live in crowded conditions, and always have. We cluster together in cities and villages in order to exchange goods and services with one another. But while we crowd together for economic reasons in our great metropolitan areas, most of the world is empty, as we can see when we fly over it. It has been estimated by Paul Ehrlich and others that human beings actually occupy no more than 1 to 3 percent of the earth's land surface.

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OVERPOPULATION Myth B: Overpopulation is threatening the world food supply. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, world food supplies exceed requirements in all world areas, amounting to a surplus approaching 50 percent in 1990 in the developed countries, and 17 percent in the developing regions. "Globally, food supplies have more than doubled in the last 40 years… between 1962 and 1991, average daily per caput food supplies increased more than 15 percent… at a global level, there is probably no obstacle to food production rising to meet demand," according to FAO documents prepared for the 1996 World Food Summit.

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Sustainable human communities can be

achieved only through a “people - centered

development.”

It emphasizes the need for priority in

development to be given to securing

„sustainable livelihoods‟ for the poorest groups

within communities.

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Differential Rates of Population Growth in India

• India‟s current fertility rate is 2.8 children per woman.

• South India and the commercial hubs of Mumbai, Delhi

and Kolkata have lower-fertility rate.

• In the Hindi speaking belt across the North, where the

women‟s state is low, and services lag, higher rates of

population growth persists.

• India‟s population is projected to overtake that of China

around 2025.

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By 2025, efforts have to be made to educate, empower and

train in life skills, the people of crowded districts of rural

North India. The demographic duality should not be allowed

to widen the gap between north and south. Entrepreneurial

families from north India have lived for decades in southern

cities, but absorption of unskilled labourers looking for work

may rekindle dormant animosities unless socio-cultural

integration efforts are made. Ethno-nationalist parties in

India attempt a democratic way to seek their place in

development .India is known for its capacity for unity in

diversity.

Disease. • As was shown by the Black Death of the Middle

Ages, diseases can wipe out very large

proportions of those exposed to them.

• They can now spread world wide very quickly,

thanks to air travel.

• Many remain incurable.

• Tuberculosis, already killing about three million

people annually, has recently developed strains

resistant to all known drugs, and

• antibiotics are useless against viral diseases.

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Natural disasters

1 Volcanic eruptions.

2 Hits by asteroids and comets.

3 An extreme ice age due to passage through an interstellar cloud?

4 A nearby supernova

5 Other massive astronomical explosions

6 Essentially unpredictable breakdown of a complex system.

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And the biggest reason to worry about the end of life is

the prediction in Nature, perhaps the world‟s most

respected science journal, that at least three-quarters

of the Earth’s species are wiped out every 62 to 65

million years. It has been 65 million years since the

Cretaceous-Tertiary disaster extinguished the dinosaurs,

meaning that we are now overdue for a cataclysm that will

without doubt reduce our population by at least half,

smash our infrastructure to smithereens, and drive most of

whatever is left of our civilization underground. Ha Ha!

Man-made disasters

1 Unwillingness to rear children?

2 A disaster from genetic engineering.

3 A disaster from nanotechnology.

4 Some other disaster in a branch of technology, perhaps just agricultural, which had become crucial to human survival.

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Risks already well recognized Nuclear war

Knowledge of how to build

nuclear bombs cannot be eradicated.

Small nations, terrorists and rich criminals

wanting to become still richer by holding the

world to ransom can already afford very

destructive bombs.

Production costs are falling and the world

has many multibillionaires. 40

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• The effects of large-scale nuclear

destruction are largely unknown.

• Radiation poisoning of the entire globe?

• „Nuclear winter‟ in which dust and soot

block sunlight, so that temperatures

everywhere fall very sharply

• Death of trees and grasses? Of oceanic

plankton? (Scare)

Biological warfare or terrorism or criminality

Biological weapons could actually be more

dangerous than nuclear ones:

less costly, and with a field of destruction

harder to limit because the weapons were

self-reproducing organisms.

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And the good news / bad news is that there will

be even more incredibly toxic stuff to burn up in

the future, at least according to those who share

the fears voiced by Stephen Hawking, who

believes that humankind will extinguish

itself from the face of the planet through

the misuse of biological weapons: “In the

long term, I am more worried about biology.

Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic

engineering can be done in a small lab.”

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United States and Soviet Union emerged as bitterly

opposed superpowers with the resources to develop

huge arsenals of nuclear weapons. From 1947 a

“Cold War" developed between them and their

allies, in the course of which they gave support to

opposing sides in conflicts in, for example, Korea,

Vietnam, Angola and the Middle East, while the two

superpowers remained formally at peace. The

collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet

Union in 1989-91 brought the Cold War to an end.

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Visitors view the carnage of war through the sheer number and scale of military cemeteries dotting the countryside. For example, in the Somme River valley of northern France, many crossroads are marked with small signs directing the traveler to World War I cemeteries. In Europe, cemeteries provide the principal link to 20th-century wars; subsidiary ties include cultural resources such as memorials, trench lines, pill boxes, and statues.

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The defining feature of the closing decades of

the 20th century and the start of the 21st

century was considered by some to be

"globalization", with multinational corporations

moving their operations around the world in

accordance with their needs, and individuals

travelling and communicating with one another

across frontiers with unprecedented ease.

An Image of year 2025

Globalized India

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Reference document:

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The continued career of the human race is endangered by

• greenhouse-effect overheating (conceivably of a

runaway kind in which warming releases more and more

methane, a powerful greenhouse gas), by

• destruction of the ozone layer, and by desertification

and pollution of land and sea, by

• loss of biodiversity, by

• diseases and chemical, biological and nuclear war.

• Overpopulation, a main cause of the deterioration of

the environment, may also lead to global warfare.

Will the human race become extinct fairly shortly? Have the dangers been underestimated, and

ought we to care?

Humans may well spread right through their galaxy.

Come what may, some will survive, they will rejuvenate civilized life on earth.

It would be hard to kill off absolutely all humans (none will attempt it, we hope), and that from a few thousand survivors new billions would grow.

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“The world has reached that point in history where

mankind‟s role can be decisive. This intelligent

creature, a product of evolution, has become

capable of obstructing, perhaps destroying,

the very process which produced him. For

evolution to have a future on Earth it is imperative

that each man and woman extend his or her

responsibility beyond their immediate

concerns to the destiny of mankind and their

planet” - PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

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A reference book:

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Why do people engage in the deadly and destructive activity of fighting? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? Have people always engaged in fighting or did they start to do so only with the advent of agriculture, the state, and civilization? How were these, and later, major developments in human history affected by war and, in turn, how did they affect war? Under what conditions, if at all, can war be eliminated, and is it declining at present? [See next slide for reference book.]

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The attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, were a dramatic indication of the threat posed to the global community by international terrorist groups. Groups within nation-states who feel oppressed on economic, religious or ethnic grounds may turn rebellious and organize terrorist episodes.

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