With the rise in the temperatures of the world’s oceans, there is also an increase in the amount of moisture that evaporates from them, more moisture means more rain. Aside from the increase in moisture due to the higher temperatures, winds are now growing stronger than ever before. Combine that with more and more mositure from the warming up oceans, wait for the right conditions and super typhoon will be given birth. Ready to wreak havoc and unprecendented destruction to human lives and property.
Some would say these ‘natural phenomena’ or ‘calamities’ are unavoidable and some would even say these are God’s way of punishing us humans. I don’t know about you, but the God I believe does not want his people to suffer such hardships and tragedies. The God I believe in is the God of love, not hate and destruction. Such typhoons may not be avoidable but it sure is now a fact that we humans have the capabaility to influence it, sadly to our detriment
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A question dawned on me, what about here in the Philippines? I mean, we Pinoy netizens (at least the financially-blessed among us) have been happily blogging or telling stories to our friends/readers both online and offline about our new and latest desktops, gaming consoles, mobile phones, peripherals and pretty much everything electronic. It generates buzz, fame, albeit jealousy and traffic for those who blog about it.
But what about the old rig that was replaced? The yester-month’s model now deemed as unfit to be shown on flickr albums for they are now relics, even fossils of the digital age? In an earlier piece, I suggested how these old-yet-functioning pieces of electronics can be disposed off by selling them in eBay or other forums. Again, what about the ones that are completely obsolete, non-functioning or cannot be sold off?
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The most effective way of waste disposal is recycling - in the truest sense of it. It follows the fundmental law of physics that matter is neither created nor destroyed; it is simply transformed from one state - being solid, liquid, gas (and okay) plasma. Once we have mastered the techniques and technologies of recycling; such that a product or material once looses it usefulness - due to damage, wear, or being outdated or simply unwanted - can easily be broken down into its basic components and those components be used to make another product with the minimal of additional new materials and efforts. The need for incinerating, dumping in landfills, and re-using our waste materials would be greatly minimised if not eliminated altogether.
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The Earth is devastated by an all out world-wide nuclear war. Only ten people survive and must hide in an underground tunner to survive and restore mother earth in the future. Problem is, the tunnel can only accomodate 9 people so one must be eliminated from the list of 10 survivors below:
34 yr-old Priest
65 yr-old old man
27 yr-old pregnant woman
12 yr-old female student
22 yr-old female artist (painter/musician)
32 yr-old male scientist
34 yr-old athlete
37 yr-old sumo wrestler
18 yr-old ballet dancer
60 yr-old carpenter
Who will you choose? Why?
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Our booming population has demanded lands be converted to agricultural use however, globalization and the rising trend of land use conversion which has been targeted for industrial, commercial, recreational and residential uses are mostly irrigated agricultural lands. This has threatened the country’s food security and has added more pressure to the ecosytem due to the added pollution and resource consumption by industrial, commercial, recreational and residential demands and activities. The end result is appalling, reduced soil quality, emergence of species resistant to these chemicals, pesticide poisoning, genetic erosion, and decimation of hundreds of indigenous rice varieties with the use of HYVs
So, is the greenhouse effect bad? If there’s too much of its effect, like what we’re experiencing now then it is bad. Extreme examples of this can be found in the planet Venus wherein the it suffocates from its own atmosphere of greemhouse gases like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and others. Of course when the opposite happens, our planet will be too cold life as we know it would find it very very hard to thrive and flourish.
Now on to ozone depletion. We all know that up in our atmosphere, is a layer of gases the provide us with an extra yet very important protection from the harmful radiation from the sun and space, it’s the ozone layer. Ozone in the earth’s stratosphere is created by ultraviolet light striking oxygen molecules containing two oxygen atoms (O2), splitting them into individual oxygen atoms (atomic oxygen); the atomic oxygen then combines with unbroken O2 to create ozone, O3.
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