Climate Change – The Arrogance of Skepticism

Why you shouldn’t try to “find out the truth about Climate Change” for yourself. There are much better ways to use one’s intelligence.

Myth of the Environmentally Irresponsible Indian

How it’s false that we Indians are unconcerned about the environment we live in

Climate Change – I've given up and lost hope

I can’t realistically hope any more. We’re all gonna die and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Read to find out just how badly we’re screwed.

How Patents stifle and go against Human nature

Patents and Intellectual Property are concepts that have destroyed the very qualities which humans need in order to survive – mimicking, copying, and freely learning from the inventions of others.

Patents standing in the way of Combating Climate Change

As we approach the Copenhagen conference in December 2009, we’re finding a divide between developed countries like the US and developing countries like India and China. This is because rich nations want poorer countries to commit to drastic carbon emission cuts that the latter are unwilling to do without assistance. Clean Technology and Intellectual Property […]

A "Green Party" in India? It's about time!

I really feel it’s time India had another viable party apart from the Congress. The BJP is not really an option as long as it continues with it’s hindutva agenda, disrupts parliament, and keeps inducting people into the party based on seniority instead of merit. For a democracy to work properly, people must have real […]

US Businesses Challenge Global Warming in Court!

We had seen earlier how most Americans don’t believe in Global Warming, and I had gotten some pretty interesting comments including a typical American who put forth arguments claiming that human induced Climate Change isn’t real. Now in a natural extension of this attitude, a coalition of American businesses are challenging Climate Change scientists in […]

So Many People don’t believe in Global Warming!

Back in India, Global Warming (or shall we say human induced climate change? Nah – Global Warming is easier) is a big concern. Just about everyone accepts that it’s happening and that we need to do something about it – even to the extent of cutting down on lifestyle excesses. This understanding of how man […]

Manually Removing Carbon Dioxide from the air

Some of the latest efforts in finding out how to reduce Climate Change focus on how to manually take Carbon Dioxide out of the air instead of how to avoid releasing it. While there’s no reason not to try to do both, there’s good reason for this approach. We release CO2 from millions of little […]