My Time Machine

If you’re a job going person, you’ll definitely talk about the bad things in office and label it as office politics. However politics is defined as “Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions” in wiki. Being a job going person by myself for the last 3 years, I’ve also been expressing my frustrations about bad things happening in office as “politics”. If you’re suffering from “Office Politics”, the following 10 tips can help you out.

1. If you’re afraid of something, learn about it. Darkness brings fear. Enlightenment is the cure. Learn politics.

2. Learn the art of saying “NO”. Most of the time we overload ourselves by saying “Yes” to so many things. We lift the expectations up so high that we couldn’t meet them.

3. Commit LESS and do MORE. Its not cheating. Its value adding.

4. Accept that people are gossiping about you, but don’t gossip about others. You’ll build trust among your colleagues. They’ll feel safe to share you critical information, which may save your job.

5. More the friends you have, Less is the chance that you’ll be fired.

6. Spend more time with your family. They will help you in hard times (at least emotionally).

7. There ain’t no free food. If you’re appreciated by someone, appreciate them back for whatever small help they’ve rendered for your success. You’ll build good relationships.

8. If you ask, you’ll get it. Even though you bear greater responsibilities and dependency, you won’t get a promotion unless you ask for it. This is true for 99% of the times. Don’t have over confidence that you’ll be so lucky to fall under that 1% of exceptions.

9. Lead by inspiration not by authority. Authority works only in your presence, but inspiration works all the time.

10. Be the change you want to see. If you don’t like how things are run, run things by yourself. Start a company.

It has been a long time since I’ve posted the part I of this article. If you’re new to this article be sure that you’ve read http://vibgy.com/2009/10/do-humans-responsible-for-climatic-change-part-i/. Now we’ll continue to explore if humans are really responsible for climatic change.

Continuing on the first hypothesis “Human growth is responsible for sensing climatic change”, the facts are abundant enough to prove that humans have grown to create devices to measure and sense the climatic conditions of this planet. So we can very well conclude that the first hypothesis is true. Let’s move on to the next one…

Human growth itself has caused climatic change:

This hypothesis is a very sensitive subject everywhere and so I tried to be unbiased as much as possible. If you see any biased perspective, please provide your valuable comments. Those who decline the charge that humans are responsible for the climatic change, put forward the claim that the relatively less amount of time humans spent on earth (which is 4.5 billion years old) couldn’t possibly destroy it. The claim is somewhat valid. The activities which we believe to be changing the climatic conditions of this planet are only 200 years old. This is after the industrial revolution after which we started emitting huge amount of carbon  dioxide into the air. Global warming is something which causes all these climatic changes. And in scientists there are 2 groups one which support that human activities are responsible for the current global warming and the other one deny that we have very less contribution towards climatic change.

I was going through piles of data and theories about climatic change and found the below graph depicting the temperature record of the earth from millions of years ago. You can read more on how these records have been measure by going through this article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record.

Temperature Record of Planet Earth

From the above graph we can observe that the earth has experienced pretty hot weathers millions of years ago. And as per predictions, there are traces that living organisms existed from 3.7 billion years ago. That’s quite a long journey actually. Its evident that life sustained in this planet through these major changes in the planet’s climate. But what we’re really scared of is if it could support humans during this climatic change. Let’s investigate further.

Please go through the following images:

Global Temperature History

CO2 Emission History

Population History

Now from the above statistical records I’ve created an image overlay to see the correlation between them. Please check below:

Image overlay showing correlation

Hope you can see the clear correlation between these 3 graphs. This is a pure probability that human population is a major contributor for the global warming. Another thing you must observe here is that the slope of these 3 curves go out of synchronization before 1975. This can be an evidence that heavy industrial activities contributed to global warming. So this concludes that the second hypothesis “Human growth itself has caused climatic change” is also true. The reason why I compared the temperature rise with the population growth instead of CO2 is that CO2 is not the only thing which is responsible for the global warming. When human population increases so does the population of the species which needs to support human life (crops, poultry, catle etc. etc.). Though the plants eat up CO2, they release a significant amount of methane when they are digested by earth. Methane is more effective green house gas than CO2.

There are so many things which some people agree and disagree. But we can not deny the collective effect of human population on this planet. What if we didn’t have all these technologies, medicine and farming techniques? Could we have exploded like this in population? How long can earth support human life? How many years will the resources in earth last (leave fossil fuels how about water)? Do you think the huge amount of sea water would be enough to support the human population increasing in this rate? There are so many questions we’re not knowledgeable enough to answer or not mature enough to digest the answers.

Now I want to raise a question will the “Go Green” efforts taken by countries, organizations and societies has anything to do with decreasing the effects of “Global Warming”? I’ll answer this in my next post. Thanks for reading. Give your valuable comments to improve the future posts.

I read a post in my friend Balan’s blog today. You can read it here… http://poothabalan.blogspot.com/2008/12/something-to-think.html. What I understand from his post is that we should not get satisfied that we don’t have the problems of our neighbors. We should prepare ourselves to avoid or handle the misfortune, if we have to face it tomorrow, and WE SHOULD HELP THEM if possible.

Every species in this world has a mechanism of adapting to a challenging environment by mutation. But this mutation happens very slowly (takes millions of years). When the challenge develops faster than the mutation process, that particular species becomes extinct. This is the point where humans differ from all other species in the world. We have the intelligence to change our challenging environment to our convenience. Without fire we couldn’t have survived the carnivorous predators. Without farming we couldn’t have supported the exploding population. Without clothing we couldn’t have survived heavy weather conditions.

Apart from all these things how we differ from other species is that we create cultures. We can organize things in a higher intellectual order (ants are also organized but it is in their gene, not in their brain). Simply saying, we help each other. Our parents help and support us even after we become parents. I don’t think any other species do that.

I’ll come to the core of what Balan says: There is a story, one person walks along a sea shore. He picks up and throws the shellfishes lying in the beach dying, into the sea. One man asks him, “There are thousand of shellfishes out there dying. You can’t save them all.”. Then this man replies, “I can’t save them all. It’s not going to make any difference in the whole population of these shellfishes. But for the one’s I’ve thrown inside, it makes a difference”. We can not help all the poor people, but if we help some, their life is not going to be the same again.

Everybody should include this into their life’s goals. Happy helping…