Poverty

Poverty

We have a population of over 6 billion.

It is going to be 8 billion by 2020.

25% of the world population, equivalent to 1.5 billion earn less than $1 dollar a day.

50% of the world population, equivalent to 3.0 billion earn less than $2 dollar a day.

Most of them (60% in Asia) are in Asia and Africa.

Unfortunately these very same people are subjected lack of sanitation and water which lead to infections.

Worldwide 2 to 3 billion will feel the effect of shortage of fresh water (NOT POLLUTED) in 2020.

This will increase the water borne disease by many folds.

As at present millions die of water borne diseases.

Latest is the contamination of water by industrial affluents which include heavy metals and insecticides.

With all these UNO is only worried about Human Rights of smaller nations.

By their inaction WHO/UNO violates the rights of every child born to this century.

Aids is increasing fast in Africa and Asia.

In Africa AIDS was spread by roaming armies (including in Congo) due to internal conflicts.

In Sri-Lanka when “Pavans” were there administering “Peace” in the North, nearly 1000 Tamils women / a month came to Colombo for abortions.

The killing/ assassination of Rajiv Gandhi was directly related to this.

Nobody has done any study on how many were infected with AIDS with the help of “Pavans”.

My Top 10 Personalities of the last 70 years

My Top 10 Personalities of the last 70 years
 
1. Nelson Mandela
2. Muhammad Ali
3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Patrice Lumumba
5. Wangari Maathai
6. Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs
7. Linus Benedict Torvalds
8. John Fitzgerald Kennedy / Lyndon B Johnson
9. Sir John Kotalawala
10. Arthur Scargill

Only one Sri-Lankan in the list.
He is one who quit politics very early saying that it is far better to do fox hunting in England than engaged in politics in Sri-Lanka. 
He was our third Prime Minister
  
Arthur Scargill of course tried his best against odds in for UK miners and was the only Labour activist of some note.

Failed to make the mark above the top above.
Che Guerra
Fidel Castro
Sukarno of Indonesia,
Jawaharlal Nehru of India,
Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia,
Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.

Freedom Revisited

Freedom Revisited
I just did a survey of our personal and political freedom from the time of independence and suddenly discovered seven (7) stages.
This can be applied to an elephant in captivity but in the case of the elephant the poor animal has few stages and no political freedom at all.
I will list them first and expand on each stage on a future date.
The reader can have his or her own classification.

1. Stage One-Born Free
That is the stage we enjoyed for over a decade.
Then we went in search of the second stage since the freedom did not filter down to everybody.

2.Stage Two- Freedom Struggle
We lacked economic freedom at this stage.

3. Stage Three- Freedom Fighter-Wasted Time
Never got the freedom we were fighting for.

4. Stage Four-Freedom left to be Abused
This is he stage were politicians (all shades) in the name of their expansion abused our freedom left right and center (they are the only one who gets a pension in five years for doing sweet nothing)

5. Stage 5-Freedom Lost
This is the stage we lost all freedom in the name of new constitution.
Even the judges lost their freedom to politicians whims and fancies.

6.Stage 6-Freedom to be abused by those who are in Power.
This is the most interesting phase where anybody who is somebody with some power (this includes officers)  can become corrupt with impunity with no legal barriers.

7. Last or the 7th stage is Freeing the Freedom from clutches of Power.
Unfortunately  we have not reached this stage since there are enough legal barriers  like 2/3 (two third) majority etc;

We have to go behind a Bo Tree and Pray for Divine Intervention.
Unfortunately foreigners including Indians and Westerners can do sweet nothing since we are a Sovereign State and one has to leave sovereign bars (Gold) in front of the altar of Demo=Crazy.

Elephant Myths-01-The Elephant Corridor

Elephant Myths-01
The Elephant Corridor in Sri-Lanka

It is a myth.
Yala, Wagamuwa, Wilpattu and Uda Walawe are not connected by a corridor for the elephants to move freely, since the rest of the land is densely populated and there is not even a hypothetical corridor.

My calculation is that not even one percent of the land is reserved for the elephants.

If I assume 10% (ten) of the land is allocated in a hypothetical space on this island  as a zoological garden and all the elephants are relocated inside it for the people to see them as exhibits, and only 0.1% of the total population come to the zoo, to see them on one go (again hypothetical) ,there will be one man or woman standing every 10 feet (3.3 meters) of the perimeter and no elephant can move out without touching a human being.

If we get 1% to visit the zoo, one can stand and won’t be able to stretch the hands without pushing and shoving.
 
Elephant will have to trample 10 of them to get out of the perimeter and see the man’s world, which is fully developed.
 
One may wonder, why I used 10% which is high land mass in commercial concepts.
It is very simple.
My estimate is that there should be 35% (it is less than 25% and we will be like Dubai in about 50 years of development from now-we might even have to import water then) of total land to be reserved for rain forest, if we are to maintain at least 10% of the perennial rivers.
So if we roughly have 30% for the rain forest, elephants should take the major share of at least one third of it which will be 10%.

That is why I state that there is not even 1% of land left for our elephants.
So the natural selection will let 500 elephants to survive in the this land and in that estimate it is really endangered species.

Stating that we have 5000 elephants in the forest is a mythical figure concocted by our Mega Media Men (M.M.M) to satisfy the politicians.
I think each elephant is counted ten (10) times in making that mythical figure, sometimes by reputed NGO's.

Development of the man’s world is also a big myth in the same stretch of imagination, since only a very few with patronage will be able to enjoy it.

I have made the calculation confusing and difficult so that politicians won’t be able to understand my logic of it but the figures are below for one to work out.

Human Population density in Sril-Lanka averaged out but in reality it is much more than that because people congregate on socio-economic reasons.

The population density in Gamphaha is more than Decca and Calcatta.
Kandy has 10 times the population density of Gaza Strip.

Beauty is nobody talks about population control.

I have used the total population projected in another 10 to 50 years for my calculation since total square miles is roughly 25,000.

1000 in a square mile
400 in a Square Kilometer
400 x 2.4=1000

Reserve only 10% 2500 Sq Miles(6500 Sq. Meters)
0.1 of population 250,000
 
Every 10 feet or 3.3 meters there is a man/woman standing.

Location   Indian Ocean     Coordinates   7°N 81°E
 
Area       65,610 km2 (25,332 sq miles)
 
Area rank     25th
 
Coastline   1,340 km (833 miles)
 
Highest elevation   2,524.13 m (8,281.27 ft)
 
Highest point    Pidurutalagala
 
Water bodies     870 km² of water =400 square miles (only about 1%)

( If Water body  is 1.5 % it equals to 1000 Km)

Population density   1000 sq miles
Population density  400 km
 
Hypothetical Elephants   population is 1000 and it is exaggerated to 5000 by local media giants (Biggest lie in this country).

Reserve   2500 Sq miles 50x50=2500;10feet
Reserve   6500 Km 80x80 6400:  3.3 meters