Mobile (Cell) Phones And Hazards To Health and Peace

When we moved to Bangalore over ten years ago mobile (cell) phones were already proliferating, and every dinky little fly-by real estate agent or grocer flashed one, even though they were very expensive to operate those days. Now they are ubiquitous, everyone not only has one various people demand the numbers and when I say I don't know mine they don't believe me. I do have one - for emergencies. In a class I was attending they discussed how long each one spent on the mobile - and again were zapped that mine was less than five minutes a day. Now that I am not going there it is less than five minutes a month.

Landlines are good enough if you do not have to call while travelling, and most people who do use it while travelling are not doing it because they have to. No one has a disaster when a phone is stolen, for example, no deaths or other such happenings have been reported due to being out of reach temporarily. But the reason for not using is more than economy or conserving unnecessary actions - it is as simple as not willing to experiment with health. It is not so simple though - even if you don't use it you might be affected though perhaps less than if you did overuse it yourself.

On news recently they warned against use of phones by children, pregnant women, and once again confirmed what I had thought all these years, in fact what had been reported nearly a decade ago - about risk of damage to brain through use of mobiles (cell phones) - and advised people to have radiation proof windows and curtains. Not that it will protect anyone who either uses a cellphone or is out in company most of the time - radiation is like tobacco smoke in that it will affect you just as much from anyone else using it, but in this case there are the towers too, so if no one uses it in your vicinity still the radiation might be around and be just as bad enough. No one is going to curtail or reduce much less forgo the use of one, though.

I don't know what people are thinking.

Sales people keep calling if you have your phone on, and they are persistent and not willing to either let you go or understand that calling like this is beyond the limits of civil behaviour in the first place. They do that sometimes on land-line as well, and won't stop until you are extremely rude. Or not picking up at all. They don't care if you keep telling them for fifteen minutes that you are in the middle of your meal, or that you don't want whatever it is they are offering - they talk in a tone that is full of an urgency of life-and-death sort. So you have to be rude, in every way possible - cutting the call simply invites them to call back over and over.

I don't know what people are thinking.

Resources Thrown Away And Wasted Are Hurting Our Planet

A consciousness about environment involves a commitment that is not only lifelong but encompasses more actions and takes a lot more thinking. From simple everyday actions to major decisions. A good beginning has been made with people discouraging use of plastic and polyethylene in for example shopping bags, which can be easily made with old newspapers for convenience of customers and can create a small scale industry with poor or enterprising home workers making extra money and supplying it to neighbourhood shops. That is on an everyday scale and doable by everyone around.

There are many such small things people can do on small scale and they can add up to worldwide huge scale to save the planet. One of them is not wasting food, or anything that can become food. It sounds obvious but in practice it is not done in the richer nations at all. For example when vegetables are bought a lot of parts are thrown away, either by the consumers or by those that are providing consumers with ready packets with the throwaway parts already thrown away. And of course there is the contrast of animals for slaughter being fed what humans can eat while whole nations - at least one continent, Africa, too - has major problems feeding people, which is to say people have been starving for well over two decades. It is good but not good enough to send a cheque - change habits so you lose little and they benefit.

In India all throwaway parts of food are fed to animals - preferably cattle of course, but when you have pigs they can pretty much clean out your kitchen garbage, which is actually not garbage in the sense of absolutely must throw away, only in the sense of most people being unable to eat such things. Stems, peels, hard parts of various raw things, stalks. Why feed grain and other perfectly good human consumable food to pigs and other such, if they can eat stalks of farm products and grain can be separated for humans need and use?

Of course it might need a little more thought and management and logistics - when things are on large scale. On small scale it is easier to make a self supporting system this way, as there existed all over the planet when we were not using quite so much fuel for shipping and wasting food on huge scale on one hand while pigs were - quite unnecessarily - fed what humans could eat and need it across the planet.

This would be a good way to manage the escalating food prices too, within the nations that do produce food.

And while one is about it, why waste resources and money on throwaway packages when one can avoid it? Attractive packaging is a moment's temptation weighing down the planet and wasting precious resources including your own sweat and blood. Try saving it - go with mostly large scale shopping and minimize packaging that is only throwaway.

Cell Phones Radiation Hazards For human Life

There is now a new directive - on the news channels - to keep mobiles (cell phones) away from pregnant women and children and so forth. For years there has been a suspicion that using a mobile might hurt the user, damaging brain at the point where one holds it. A little thinking can make it clear that holding it anywhere would damage some part of another. Also, the news that it is not only your own mobile that hurts you is obvious - the waves that damage humans are just as likely to affect you from someone else's equipment, and of course, there are waves everywhere now with the towers necessarily proliferating for making it possible to have connectivity everywhere.

Is it really necessary to have so much connectivity everywhere? Doesn't it diminish an experience when all one is bothered about is to click photos and take videos and talk about it instantly? Is it necessary to keep it on all the time, on a small scale that adds up planet-wide? Is it necessary to have those towers everywhere, only to warn people of health hazards (there, your public duty done, now you can permit another million towers) and advise them to have radiation proof windows and draw curtains (live in caves again) - and of course, when you do those things your cell doesn't work so you come out and bam, the radiation hits you.

What next, everyone wearing radiation suits and reading sms - which might be better at that than chatting inanely and disturbing everyone around, adding up over and above the radiation - since we cannot stop connecting?

Aren't brains precious, far more so than non - emergency phone calls to gossip or just chat?

For Earth's Sake - Plant Trees! - And Stop Them Being Cut Down!

Recently I found someone trying to work out a wood burning car, I couldn't believe this, what unthinking person would do this just to avoid paying for fuel - and the channel that showed this, was it someone's idea of a joke?

Perhaps there is still enough forest cover in U.S. that one living there might think in terms of "wow, free fuel for car" - but have you not heard of global warming, receding ice sheets and so forth? The connection is that it is only a sufficient forest cover that might save the earth from a desert-and-ocean arid landscape that will not allow humans to survive, and such possibilities might happen soon.

What we need is not wood burning - but a complete ban on wood chopping, tree felling, and so forth; in addition we need to plant forests - not those sort that are for timber, but real ones with diversity - so the disaster train might get to slow down and perhaps even reverse.

Trees might absorb the carbon that is the engine to disaster scenario, and cool the earth, and so forth.

It is one thing being fond of beaches, it is another to forget you need to get home, to have a home, and the precious water you need is not forever if gobal warming gets too far. Trees will help that too.

Please, start thinking about this, make it unfashionable and sin and crime to cut a tree down without state level permission, plant more trees and so on.