Thursday, 23 June 2016

Are we witnessing a mass-extinction event?

Mass extinctions as we know are deadly catastrophes which wipes most of the species out of the planet. The last mass-extinction event occurred 65 million years ago and the one before that occurred 250 million years ago. The one that occurred 250 million years ago is called Permian-Triassic extinction which wiped up 96% of all marine specie and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate. There are various stated causes which include volcanic eruptions from the sea beds, extreme greenhouse effect and asteroid impact. Whatever the cause was, it took nearly 10 million years for the earth to recover. The other one(occurred 65 million years ago) is called Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was caused by an asteroid impact on the earth's crust and was the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs.

All the above stated extinctions were natural with no one having control over them. They happened either in a flash(by asteroid impact) or gradually by methanogens(methane exhaling organisms), volcanic eruptions and other harmful gas erupting objects leading to green-house effect, gradually leading to tsunamis and increase in temperature.But the one taking place right now is being caused by one and only homo-sapiens. The causes being deforestation, harmful radio waves,oil spills, factory emission, motor vehicles, plastic, water pollution, burning fossil fuels, using chemical weapons, bursting crackers, hunting, fishing, wastage of food and water and many other causes. 

All these causes are leading to extinction of many species and the rate is increasing every day bit by bit. We have made creatures homeless and are guilty of killing millions. We have killed trees for our greed. We  have made dustbins out of lakes and rivers never thinking about its effects. We emit harmful gases even after knowing its consequences and at the end of the day we sit in a conference discussing climate change and the next day we get back to the same routine. 

Well, if we don't stop, more number of species are going to get extinct in front of our eyes and at the end we may need to leave the planet and if we couldn't, we must face our own doings. 

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

The failure of education system in Indian schools

The Indian education system , is in many ways harmful to our society , it gives gives our students more information and less skills . There are many debates going on the education system of India , and honestly there are many approaches which we can take to criticise it (a fact I am not very proud of) .



To begin with , lets know what  education should actually be about , we want our students to attain knowledge so that they can contribute to the society and be upstanding citizens , in an ideal education system science is taught so that students can become good scientists or engineers or doctors etc. civics is taught so that the students know how the country runs so that they can run it when they grow up , history is taught so that students learn about their ancestors and be proud of the history of the county , literature is taught to improve the language of the students and so that students of this generation can enjoy the works of earlier generations , but instead we have an education system which teaches us how to write answers to attain marks .

So the present indian education system aims to build a facade , it aims to give the students the ability to show that they are knowledgable but it does not give them knowledge they can use to improve the society , the essence of academics is lost due to our present education system . This system was laid by the british to make Indians zombies so that its easy for them to control us . India needs the brilliance of her people to develop , the present education system takes the away.




If the education system of a country does not teach its students the importance of academics , high percentage of educated people become un-employable . Which is the case with India now .
The economy of this country is not what it should be because the number of entrepreneurs in this country are scarce , why is that ? Because since our birth we have been taught to stay away from un-chartered territory ,  how can a country where innovation has no value, develop ? , students are expected to stand out but are not expected to explore  .


In old US , red-Indians and non-christians were called heathens , here students who do not do what everyone else does are called failures . This is regress , and all this is due to one failed education system .