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35)A Republic of Inhospitality

India Republic Day -- While India celebrates Republic Morning and the chests of numerous Indians swell with delight at the thought of our immens e diversity and imagined navy prowess it is well to reflect on what kind of Republic the has become. A republican type of government is not merely one in which the head of state is not a hereditary monarch; rather the modern republic puts on the idea that sovereignty resides from the people and that the will of the people as expressed through their representatives is supreme. Exactly what has however been important to the idea of the republic everywhere is the notion associated with inclusiveness. In this respect the reports that have been coming out of India in recent years tell a tale that is chill to the bones a tale which leaves behind a stench which no amount of sloganeering regarding Swachh Bharat or even anything more than a symbolic wielding of the broom can eradicate. In case inclusiveness is the touchstone of any Republic what i...
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Video Advertorial Distribution - Types of Distribution

Video Advertorial Distribution is a very lucrative business. In fact, it is one of the most popular money making businesses online today. Most people start off by posting video ads on their blogs, but there is no doubt that more traffic will be generated by posting videos on your own website as well. Video Advertorial s will also generate more traffic to your site than the actual article you have written. So, what are the important things to consider when thinking about video adverts? Distribution: You should choose an established, reliable and popular video site to place your video adverts. The more popular a video site is, the better. It also means you will be able to reach more potential customers. One way of identifying which sites are the best for video advert distribution is by researching which sites were the subject of spam complaints. Also, avoid video sites with lots of negative reviews. Distribution Methods: There are two primary methods of video distribution. First, indivi...
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Human impact on the environment

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Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse. Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society is causing severe effects, which become worse as the problem of human overpopulation continues. Some human activities that cause damage (either directly or indirectly) to the environment on a global scale include population growth, overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation, to name but a few. Some of the problems, including global warming and biodiversity loss pose an existential risk to the human race, and human overpopulation is strongly correlated with those problems. The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting fr...
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Human overconsumption and overpopulation

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Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem. It can be measured by the ecological footprint, a resource accounting approach which compares human demand on ecosystems with the amount of planet matter ecosystems can renew. Estimates indicate that humanity's current demand is 70% higher than the regeneration rate of all of the planet's ecosystems combined. A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to environmental degradation and the eventual loss of resource bases. Humanity's overall impact on the planet is affected by many factors, not just the raw number of people. Their lifestyle (including overall affluence and resource utilization) and the pollution they generate (including carbon footprint) are equally important. In 2008, The New York Times stated that the inhabitants of the developed nations of the world consume resources like oil and metals at a rate almost 32 times greater than those of the developing w...
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Fishing and farming

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The environmental impact of agriculture varies based on the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Ultimately, the environmental impact depends on the production practices of the system used by farmers. The connection between emissions into the environment and the farming system is indirect, as it also depends on other climate variables such as rainfall and temperature. There are two types of indicators of environmental impact: "means-based", which is based on the farmer's production methods, and "effect-based", which is the impact that farming methods have on the farming system or on emissions to the environment. An example of a means-based indicator would be the quality of groundwater that is affected by the amount of nitrogen applied to the soil. An indicator reflecting the loss of nitrate to groundwater would be effect-based. The environmental impact of agriculture involves a variety of factors from the soil, to water, the air, ani...
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Ecosystem impacts

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Environmental degradation edit Human activity is causing environmental degradation, which is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution. It is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. As indicated by the I=PAT equation, environmental impact (I) or degradation is caused by the combination of an already very large and increasing human population (P), continually increasing economic growth or per capita affluence (A), and the application of resource-depleting and polluting technology (T). Habitat Fragmentation edit According to a 2018 study in Nature , 87% of the oceans and 77% of land (excluding Antarctica) have been altered by anthropogenic activity, and 23% of the planet's landmass remains as wilderness. Habitat fragmentation is the reduction of large tracts of habitat leading t...
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Climate change impacts

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Global warming is the result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations which is caused primarily by the combustion of fossil energy sources such as petroleum, coal, and natural gas, and to an unknown extent by destruction of forests, increased methane, volcanic activity and cement production. Such massive alteration of the global carbon cycle has only been possible because of the availability and deployment of advanced technologies, ranging in application from fossil fuel exploration, extraction, distribution, refining, and combustion in power plants and automobile engines and advanced farming practices. Livestock contributes to climate change both through the production of greenhouse gases and through destruction of carbon sinks such as rain-forests. According to the 2006 United Nations/FAO report, 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions found in the atmosphere are due to livestock. The raising of livestock and the land needed to feed them has resulted in the destruction of ...
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