Candid Confessions of a Guitar

 

People like listening to my melody. When one strums on me, I feel so lucky indeed, because then I get identified with Nature and with human beings. Right then, I feel as if I am used to bridge up the gap between them. I never imagined as well that I can be the source of everybody’s entertainment, mirth and lingering happiness. They say that music is the one and only companion never shunning anyone. Do you know what the most important side in this regard is? It is the fact that I can be a part of it. I can be of manifold kinds like bass guitar, lead guitar and so on and so forth. Still, no one can deny that all of my kinds are used for the same purpose, that is, music. Moreover, I feel too glad, for sure, as and when I recall that I am one of the reasons of the birth of a number of musical artists. People utilise me for therapy also. Well, I must admit that when my strings are touched with a plectrum, I feel as if it is magic, pure and sweet magic, for certain. Then, I find myself worthy enough to live as an entity in this universe. However, while learning how to play on me, the novices, most of the time, get prone to scar their fingers; still, they take utmost delight in this regard thinking that a few scars can be endured for the sake of learning music and spreading the message everywhere.

 

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The True Meaning of Freedom

 

It is a glorious day today. Broadly speaking, it is the 75th Independence Day of India. Well, frankly speaking, it feels amazing to be a part of the flag hoisting ceremony. But there are a few questions lurking from deep within: How much do we love our country? How much independent are we from our heart? How much do we really honour those independent souls who paved the way of our Independence?

Yes, there are a great number of questions apart from the above-mentioned ones. Can we answer them thoroughly? Don’t we feel that our childhood provides all of us around the globe with the best freedom or independence ever? It is not a matter of outward celebration; it is rather a matter of our inner realisation.

Definitely, we all must let the true meaning of “freedom” dwell in our hearts. We can never become free, unless and until we know how to accept things with our understanding.

Well, it might sound a bit queer; still, we all, each and every human being, should try to analyse ourselves; we must get ourselves rectified from the inside. We should have no partition, no distinction at all. Only then, I suppose, shall each and every one, no matter where, who and how we are, become a part of the true meaning of freedom.

 

Inviting Innovations in Transportation

 

Did nature create the human beings or did the human beings create nature? Which is the true answer? However, the relative importance belongs to both of them. One is relying upon the other. They are like true friends indeed. However, the days that we are having now reveal the harshest fact that man is polluting the other, that is, nature as much as possible. But why does he do so? There is truly no perfect and absolute answer to this question.

Human beings are components of the natural environment. That is to say, man and nature are interrelated to each other. Everything benevolent happens because of this relationship. Broadly speaking, whenever this tie or this bond gets disturbed, everything will collapse in the wink of an eye.

It can be said that science and nature walk hand in hand. Frankly speaking, science is more dependent on nature, not merely because of the components helpful for scientific discovery but also for the execution of the scientific formulae.

Unfortunately, now-a-days, every scientific process, it may rather be said that every scientific attitude of man contaminates the environment. It is truly unimaginable that the human beings are treacherous to their origin, that is, nature.

Man is becoming more and more developed, more and more civilized in his own way, sometimes with his scientific inventions and sometimes with his easy approach to taint nature. He invented various kinds of transports, and at the same time, various kinds of green house gases like Carbon dioxide, Nitrous oxide, Trichlorofluromethane, Carbon tetrachloride, Fluoroform, Methane and so on and so forth, not just to pollute his environment but even to dig his own grave indirectly.

At present, transportation epitomizes around 10% of the gross domestic product in the United States of America, according to Research Innovative Technology Administration 2012, 3 – 3. Moreover, transportation is necessary to many aspects of the economy of the USA. It incorporates transportation of people to reach their employment, or other ends. However, transportation takes into its account of 28% of the emission of the greenhouse gases in the USA in 2012, as per the knowledge of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2013.

Moreover, the emissions from transportation sector are expected to increase hastily within the next few decades. The International Energy Agency (IEA) propounds that the use of energy and consequently the emissions of carbon dioxide will rise about between 2000 and 2030. The developing countries like China and Indonesia and so on will fall victim to this phenomenon greatly; the emissions in those countries may get doubled between 2000 and 2020. These basically occur due to increase of personal travel and goods movement, and apart from these, use of fossil fuels for these purposes.

Day by day, urbanization is taking the prior place more and more. In the urban areas, not only the factories but even the transports are emitting Carbon dioxide. People consume fuel electrical power and resulting in, they increase the number of their carbon footprints.

Fortunately, at the present times, some measures are being taken against pollution and climate change due to the emission of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide mitigation measures to urban transport projects are being undertaken that offer the scopes for improving the cost-effectiveness of mobility investments.

In the meantime, Japan has taken some stratagems for leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “Japan Revitalization Strategy” got revised in 2015, and decided at the cabinet meeting on June 30, 2015. The country has expressed a few basic approaches for dominant sectors. First, comprehending the directions of world technology and industries and strategies of leading companies may be helpful. Second, analyzing Japan’s strengths and weaknesses and thus endeavoring to improve may come to an aid. Third, sharing the strategies all over Japan for government, private sectors and research institutes may be helpful as well.

Apart from that, there are transportation technologies and stratagems that are commencing their journey for helping to meet the climate change. These technologies and strategies include automotive and fuel technologies, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and mobility management strategies for reduce the demand for private vehicles. The climate change beneficence of innovative engine and transport technologies are, however, comprehended. Yet there are a very few or a small number of studies that are available on the energy and carbon dioxide emission.

Intelligent transportation system (ITS) can curtail fuel consumptions and emissions by reducing congestion, smoothing the progress of optimal route planning and timing, perfecting accelerations or decelerations, permitting pricing and demand management stratagems, bettering the public transportation mode use, and so on and so forth.

Now the question is – What is innovation? It is nothing but a central notion of economic development and is perceived as a key driver of a company’s success. From the organizational point of view, innovation is essential for creating new scopes or for ruining the existing ones in order to survive in challenging the dynamism. Furthermore, technological as well as organizational innovations may be considered as fundamental novelties or changes for betterment.

Therefore, the solutions to these problems need to be discovered by the people themselves. They can use solar energy, wind energy, atomic energy, and tidal energy and so on. When fossil fuels have invited a great curse all over the world, some alternative energy should be found out. At present, many companies have shifted from using fossil fuel energies to the utilization of solar energy.

It must be said that whatever the circumstances are, whatever the innovations may be, all the human beings must work shoulder to shoulder for the entire world, because world cannot be composed of a number of counties and their barriers only but with the help of brotherhood that can break the barricades of the nations to make them a unified whole. All the fragments of the jigsaw puzzle should be harmonized to make them a complete and beautiful picture. Only then the whole world will become a better place for living with less pollution and more innovation, and for that people should take steps with much immediacy.

 

Is Sustainable Development Welcomed Properly?

 

Now-a-days, all over the world, it has become a conscious concern to combat climate change and global warming by inviting sustainable development. Although it has raised a hue and cry all over the globe, many steps are yet to be taken for better existence of the human beings on this earth. Regarding this notion, many citations are there. One of them may be quoted below.

 

The Unilever Company, in November, 2015, announced, “We will become carbon positive in our operations by 2030. This means we will source 100% of the energy used within our operations from renewable sources by 2030, and generate more renewable energy than we consume. We are also working to lower our greenhouse gas (GHG) impact from sourcing, manufacturing and innovation, as well as deepening our efforts to eliminate deforestation from our supply chains.” They added, “In 2016, our factory sites reduced CO₂ emissions from energy by 43% per tonne of production compared to 2008, achieving our target four years ahead of schedule. However, the GHG impact of our products has risen by 8% since 2010.² Underlying sales growth over the same period was 30%, so it is encouraging to see that we are indeed decoupling our value chain GHG impacts from our business growth. The increase in GHG emissions per consumer use is mainly driven by our Personal Care business which has expanded in hair and shower products via acquisitions, in particular Alberto Culver. Over 60% of our value chain GHG footprint comes from consumer use, primarily from heated water for showering, which is more difficult to influence.”

 

It must be kept in mind that the phenomenon of climate change is a crucial and serious challenge to the world. From the pre-industrial levels, greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations have increased more and more as a consequence of human acts. As a result to this, global warming is obvious in the present days from the surveillance of increase in global average air. Ocean temperatures, pervasive melting of snow and ice in the Polar Regions and the rise of the sea levels all over the world have become and posed to be serious problems in human life and they are getting even more harmful day by day. As a result to the rise of the level of the marine water due to the melting of ice and snow in the Polar Regions, many low lands are about to get submerged.

 

Apart from that, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has propounded that basically nothing but the greenhouse gases and their emissions are the causes of climate change and global warming. Day by day, its consequents will deteriorate over time, and this will happen due to the absence of regulatory action. Actually, the vulnerability of the future generations will bring in a kind of catastrophic disaster.

 

Stephen Pacala, an ecologist, and Robert Socolow, a physicist, both belong to the Princeton University. They have come up with a few measures for controlling pollution, climate change and global warming. They are, namely, eliminating the use of fossil fuels like burning coal, oil and natural gas, upgrading infrastructure since all over the world, nothing but buildings contribute in emitting one third of the natural gas, innovating the new ways to use transportation, less consuming, citizens becoming more efficient, eating vegetarian, planting saplings and stopping deforestation, unplugging the electrical goods when they are off, inviting the system of having one child, replacing the fuels coming from the fossils, and so on and so forth.

 

Moreover, farming livestock like cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens gives off about six billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, Nitrous oxide, Trichlorofluromethane, Carbon tetrachloride, Fluoroform, Methane and so on and so forth each and every year. The estimates may vary. However, this epitomizes up to eighteen percent of the global emissions of polluting greenhouse gases.

 

Climate change and global warming due to the effects of the greenhouse gases are perhaps the most visible and most researched challenge of the global environment. In the eco-system, every creature is linked with the other, because it is like a chain; it is rather a pyramid. If one living creature is neglected, the entire pyramid will collapse to the utmost. Every creature is dependent upon the others. So there is no question of independence.

 

Unfortunately, human technology and population growth have changed the web of ecosystem. Wherever people like to go, they will definitely find dangers in human food, water and air. However, the target of a globe in natural equilibrium is long past pract8ical and people are now in the grip of the era of sustainable practices. People have and require comprehending the natural systems much better. They should learn cautiously how they can probe into the matter of keeping them as it was and productive.

 

Is there any light of hope? Do people will have to grope in the utmost and fierce darkness forever? The answers lie in the proper learning and correct understanding of the matter of sustainable development by the people. It ought to be done by the people and for the people. Unless men work hand in hand always to curb this grim advent of human tragedy, no one can ever be able at all to solve this challenge. For this men need to bid farewell to all the non-renewable energy resources and usher in a new era of hope when there will be renewable energy to be used as much as the human beings desire. However, it is not just a word to say. That is to say, it should be executed; human plans and strategies must be implemented with immediacy, since the present attitude of man will determine the future destiny. The planet is for everyone. So, without any discrepancy, it must be, rather it ought to be loved by all; it has to be taken care of, and what is more, it should be nurtured with intense love and care just as it forever more has taken care of mankind.