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Short story, Big Lesson

Pause and ponder

A man came out of his home to admire his new truck.
To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint.The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into a pulp as punishment. When the father calmed down, he rushed his sonto the hospital.Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands. When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocentlysaid, "Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck."Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?"The father went home and committed suicide.Think about the story the next time you see someone spill milk at a dinnertable or hear a baby crying. Think first before you lose your patiencewith someone u love.
Trucks can be repaired. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't. Too often we fail to recognize the difference between the person and the performance.
People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actionswe take while in a rage will haunt us forever.

by:- funlok.com

Who Will Pay for Global Warming?

Responsibility for global warming is hard to pinpoint. Now the State of California is suing the automobile industry for emissions from its cars. The fundamental question is: Who should pay for the impacts of global warming In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef and spilled more than 450,000 tons (11 million gallons) of crude oil into the Gulf of Alaska. What followed was an unprecedented ecological disaster and a financial fiasco for the oil giant Exxon Mobil (then known as Exxon), which was forced to pay billions in settlements and clean-up costs after courts held it responsible for the damage that the spill caused. Eighteen years later, the State of California is suing some of the world's biggest car manufacturers for the damages that their cars' emissions are said to be causing to the state's economy, environment, and public health. When the lawsuit was filed last autumn, California State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said that emissions from cars made by six companies - General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Chrysler, Nissan, and Honda - accounted for 30 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the state. The damages sought by the state would likely reach "hundreds of millions" of dollars, he added.Given the importance of California, the world's eighth-biggest economy, the case's outcome could have a tremendous impact. Lawyer and co-director of the Climate Justice Programme Roda Verheyen considers it "crucial" in shaping the direction for future climate-related legal action internationally. "This is the first case worldwide where the court will have to look at concrete impacts and costs, and then decide whether it will hold the car companies at least partly responsible for those impacts," says Verheyen, who specializes in climate-related law at Hamburg firm Günther Heidel Wollenteit Hack. "It will be extremely closely watched by everyone in the legal profession and the climate community and by governments." Both the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform issued statements against the lawsuit. Institute for Legal Reform President Lisa A. Rickard called the state action "the epitome of a frivolous lawsuit."

Courtsy-Allianez

What is Global Warming?

Global Warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are getting more frequent Over the last 100 years, the average temperature of the air near the Earth´s surface has risen a little less than 1° Celsius (0.74 ± 0.18°C, or 1.3 ± 0.32° Fahrenheit). Does not seem all that much? It is responsible for the conspicuous increase in storms, floods and raging forest fires we have seen in the last ten years, though, say scientists Their data show that an increase of one degree Celsius makes the Earth warmer now than it has been for at least a thousand years. Out of the 20 warmest years on record, 19 have occurred since 1980. The three hottest years ever observed have all occurred in the last eight years, even.
Earth should be in cool-down-period:-
But it is not only about how much the Earth is warming, it is also about how fast it is warming. There have always been natural climate changes – Ice Ages and the warm intermediate times between them – but those evolved over periods of 50,000 to 100,000 years.

Courtsy- Allianez

MURSI TRIBE WOMEN

The Mursi (or Murzu) are a Sub-Saharan African nomadic cattle herder tribe located in the Omo valley in southwestern Ethiopia close to the Sudanese border. The estimated population of the Mursi is around 3900. Surrounded by mountains and three rivers, the home of the Mursi is one of the most isolated region of the country. Their neighbors include the Bodi, the Aari, the Banna, the Kara, the Bumi and the Chai. The Mursi have their own language, also called Mursi. Few are familiar with Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, and their literacy level is very low. The religion of the Mursi tribe is classified as Animism, although about 15% are Christians. The Mursi women are famous of wearing plates in their lower lips. One of the reasons of this "ornament" is for avoiding to be catched as slaves. These lip discs are made of clay. Girls are pierced in the age of 15 or 16. They remove the plate when eating

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