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What The Recent firings of Russia And America Underline
\nLots of news appears on the media about public firing that in turn makes our thoughts dark. This situation is indeed a threat to global peace. News spread about shooting at the public in America and lots of countries including Russia. The recent shooting in a school in the Republic of Tatarstan, 820 km east of Moscow is the most recent in these shooting series happening all over the world. This shooting had killed approximately seven school children and a teacher.
\nHere comes the value of proper education. Education is not only for attaining better jobs but also for acquiring a positive view across one’s life. The lack of good teachers may have affected people who’d been captured for shooting.
\nThe rising of negative nihilism and sadism cannot create any good in this world. Negative nihilism puts forward the severe thinking that this life has no value or meaning. This can lead to suicide or public firing because these kinda people don’t care about others’ lives and their own life. Sadists find happiness in torturing and killing others and these types of people can also lead to such issues.
\nEach person can believe in their own choice beliefs or can drop all their beliefs, as it’s their choice. But they don’t have the right to intervene in other peoples’ lives and choices. What they believe should not harm others. But here, people who become invaded by extreme nihilism lose hope in life which results in a sadistic behavior of killing many and suiciding. So it’s a crucial fact that the coming generation should be convinced that they should opt for a good mode of life and whatever they believe should not cost the blood of others. Only through such convincing, we can make a better living in the coming future.
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Grammarly is a famous grammar and spell checker available in the internet. It could be used to correct our all writing errors. It has a paid version and a freemium. The freemium version is very useful. You can also buy their paid version for advanced grammar errors such as passive sentence misuse and so on. Besides grammar and spell checking it also suggests words that help us to avoid our wordy sentences and also detects the tone of our writing. We can also adjust the english variants such as American English, Britain English and so on.
\n2. Hemmingway Editor
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Hemmingway editor is a useful editing software which helps us to detect wordy sentences, active or passive sentence choice, to replace weak adjectives and words, and so on. It is just like a real editor. It has a paid as well as a free version. The paid version includes more advanced options, which may help you to correct more word misuses and sentence errors.
\n3. Canva
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Canva makes graphic designing stupid simple! You can just sign up and use their millions of free templates to create youtube banners, posters, wallpapers, blog images, instagram stories and so on. It is very useful and helpful in making images that will suite for our purposes. It has a free option and a paid version called Canva Pro, which may help you to make use of more templates and tools such as background removal and so on.
\n4.Usetopic.com
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This is a wonderful blog ideas generator. If you search a word, you will get some blog ideas that would be useful in blogging. It also has a paid as well as a free option. I found this tool only today, when passing through other blog ideas generators. This is really wonderful and I bet it would be helpful for you!
\nThese are the 4 tools that would be helpful for you to create marvellous blogs and articles or essays. These could even make a better blogger without any skills. So I recommend to check this out, so that it would be helpful for you to create better blogs.
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From 2021, the world is moving to a new era of challenges. The covid pandemic which had started from the end of 2019, still reigns. We haven’t found medicine for it except for some vaccines which may help us to survive the pandemic without slipping to deathly hallows. The carbon emissions, which have been the trademark of humans, have made some challenges for us. Of course, it’s global warming and climate issues.
\nGlobal warming is our follower from the industrial revolution onwards. Most of the followers are fans of a particular person, but here global warming follows us not to help, but to challenge our and the whole world’s sustenance.
\nClimate change occurs in a wrong pattern. The markings of our ancestors such as summer, winter, spring, and autumn are coming early or mixing with their nearest weathers. The ozone layer depletion gave way for ultra-violet radiations and gamma rays to reach Earth at least to a small extent, which increases year by year.
\nMan never consider the Earth and his fellow creatures and cut down every single forest. Latest studies regarding the trees even show that, the trees, which we thought to be the ultimate protectors of the world release methane to Earth. We know, how dangerous if the level of methane on Earth raises beyond its limit. But, it’s certain that it releases more oxygen and intake carbon dioxide than the level of released methane.
\nThe new era indeed challenges our sustenance. The economic progress of lots of countries is affected by the present covid pandemic. Trade and commerce are affected. The lives of billions of people are affected. The challenges inside our imaginations such as trade, commerce, and economy could progress in the post covid period. But how can the wounds on Earth be erased? How can we challenge such big global problems?
\nTerraforming is a great idea, where we humans can sustain in another planet by making suitable changes on the planet. But it is not a quick solution.
\nThe building of Asgardia, a space world in a giant space shuttle is also a good idea. But it hasn’t started any of its constructions and hasn’t even found a good place to make it. This is indeed not a quick solution.
\nThe only way is to reduce our exploitations to Earth and thereby rectifying at least a small scar, we have made on Earth. It may help us to live longer with fewer challenges. We need to find new resources that are renewable and non-polluting. Maximal utilization of green energy is the best option. If we fail to follow such measures, we will have to face an apocalypse before the predicted time period.
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The Beginning
\nLong ago, humans were just another animal species on Earth. But from the accidental invention of fire, we started building up our world on Earth. Everyone will say that human greed is very much dangerous. Even though we could simply say so, that is how we have been developed into the most developed species in the world. Our increase in development gave way to the increase in our greed. And thus, in this 21st Century, we are facing a new ideology and as you know by reading the title of this article, that powerful and fastly developing ideology is Dataism.
\nDataism is the emergence of significant big data. It is the emergence of the ideology or a particular mindset which deals with vital information or big data. In simple words, it is the free flow of data. And according to the latest reports and analysis, this data will decide our nearest future.
\nThe term Dataism first appeared through the article ‘The Philosophy of Data’ written by David Brooks in the New York Times in 2013. In this short article, Brooks says about his viewpoints on the rise of Dataism, which he states as a new philosophy. He thinks that it could even predict the future by utilizing the wide range of data they have collected and stored in the vast internet servers.
\nData helps to make our life easier. It could give us the necessary advice in almost all types of our daily activities. For example, we are more likely to follow Google Maps, when we are on a trip to an unknown place. It accesses your location, your details so that it could give you advice and could show the best shortcuts and even it could avoid several accidents because it has a vast amount of data in its servers and could use it wisely. So, in that case, Dataism is a great advantage.
\nDataism gives value for every bit of data or information. All data is invaluable. Dataists declare they aim to make their ideology worldwide. By adding more and more networks, it could develop an extreme power. Dataists declare to give all the authority to Dataism so that it could manage and satisfy all of us.
\nThe New World of Algorithms
\nDataism sees all the organic species as biochemical algorithms. In the language of Dataism, all the emotions and thoughts of organic species are considered as the result of the working of their biochemical algorithms. It doesn’t consider us as an individual and instead, it sees us as different biochemical algorithms. Through such a viewpoint, our significance as individuals will give way to just biochemical algorithms.
\nDataism aims to create highly developed and efficient electronic or artificial algorithms to outperform our biochemical algorithms. Through the emergence of Dataism, we never find ourselves in an important role in the world and instead consider ourselves as just algorithms. The world becomes the interface between algorithms. This situation may lead to blowing off humanism and its side wings.
\nThe liberal drama is going to be over, because of the new challenges created by the rising philosophies or ideologies such as Dataism and techno-humanism. Dataism means the free flow of data and techno-humanism means the intervention of technology in human decisions.
\nHere, we are going to discuss Dataism. The liberal story will surely lose its prominence when the new world of algorithms takes over the world. Everyone will slowly start to trust AI for everything and will surely depend on it. Your data will be drained completely to the internet service providers and they may even use it for better advertisements and the public election in a country. Even now Google uses your data and your personal information to put advertisements when you open a webpage on a website.
\nIn the article, ‘The Future of Dataism’, Yuval Noah Harari says that according to Dataists, the output of Dataism will be a more efficient and a single data processing system, which will be known as IoT or the Internet-of-all-things. According to him, Dataism also began as a neutral-scientific theory, and later developed as a religion. He also claims that the data flow is the ultimate value of this religion. He also predicts that humans may have been able to merge into that data flow.
\nWhen the AI knows us more than we know ourselves, what will happen then? We will start giving AI the authority in our lives and will never try to oppose it. Gradually, it accesses everything we know and everything we have on our PC. Slowly, it will rise as an ultimate power and we will be just people, who could move according to its willing.
\nEven our biological data is going to be in the hands of AI. Then it could utilize it in both ways- to destroy or to sustain a peaceful society. If a pandemic is released and if, with the help of AI, we can spot the person’s complete details, with whom the pandemic has been started, then it is a boon. And we could trace the pathway of that particular individual which may help us to know what is the reason or from where does this pandemic had started its journey. This could result in a swift investigation and could help the development of medical science to develop a proper vaccine for the disastrous epidemic. The AI could even predict the exact medicine for the epidemic through its analysis of the vast number of people’s biological data, which includes their DNA codes. The covid pandemic, which we face today, continues its catastrophic journey around the world. Billions of people had died. The virus started spreading from Wuhan, China from approximately at the end of 2019. But it had spread all over the world through China. Our medical science is not as pacy as we think. But here AI could perform the wonderful task of finding the vaccine by analyzing various medical substances and various DNA codes. It could even play the effects on the DNA codes by analyzing the medicine it had found. Remember that we only developed a vaccine much later.
\nThe world becomes the battle between biochemical algorithms and super-intelligent electronic algorithms. Surely, the super-intelligent electronic algorithms will take over the biochemical algorithms. The authority of the AI as a dominant power has both pros and cons. The super-intelligent algorithms have their mind to decide whether a deed is right or wrong. The logical thinking in AI can cause many disastrous effects in human society. If the algorithm hates someone, then it could erase all the bits of information about him, and thereby it could destroy his peaceful life. There is no way for him to survive in the data age without the help and assistance of super-intelligent algorithms.
\nThe Data Revolution
\nThe 21st Century has arrived with lots of new ideas and new technologies which are still in progress. Dataism, one of the most famous ideas has arrived in this century. The data creates a way to a great revolution. This revolution is not related to high human intervention. Here, in this spectacular drama, we are just sub-actors who all are only meant for the beginning scene. After that, we have nothing to stay on the stage as the rest of the part is given to the AI. Yes, of course, this drama stars the AI than humans. We created Artificial Intelligence and we are ready to give up our dominance to AI by trusting them completely. We never try to understand any of the consequences.
\nData is invaluable. In the realm of advertising and present politics, this big data can be utilized for targeting a people of a country and thereby securing more votes. This was proven by the Cambridge Analytica outrage, in which it is accepted that Donald Trump and the planners of Brexit utilized clients’ Facebook information to make mental profiles that empowered them to control the majority.
\nThe data revolution changes everything. In the present world, we don’t have any privacy. Anyone with a bit of internet knowledge could easily hack our information and could sell in the darknet. We believe that we are secured with just having an antivirus but it does not help much. By making dataism a reality we may have a better life without any assurance.
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There are trillions of books in this world. But these are the books that had influenced me the most when I had just stepped into my teen age.
\nThis book is one of the best in world fiction. The life of Zorba had influenced my thoughts and triggered my mind to a new stream of world concepts. The novel, written by the world-famous writer Nikos Kazantzakis, is one of his best books I have read. The story is about a bookworm who set out to rescue from his bookish life meets an exuberant and bizarre personality called Zorba. Zorba himself describes him before the protagonist as Alexis Zorba when the narrator saw a sexagenarian looking at him through the glass while reading Dante’s Divine Comedy. The story continues to expand after the arrival of the strange character Zorba. So it’s a must-read book for all book lovers.
\n2. The Davinci Code
\nThis is a big bestseller novel written by Dan Brown. It is the second part of the Robert Langdon Series. It’s the best thriller mystery novel I’ve ever read. The novel portrays the real life of Jesus with perfect shreds of evidence. This novel is well researched and shows us the hidden secrets in the life of Jesus and the hidden secrets in the paintings of Davinci, who was once the head of the Priory of Sion, a secret society that promised to protect the holy grail. I wonder, how cruel was the Church to maintain its dominance all over the world. I’m sure, those who say this novel is a wastage will be people who try to close their eyes to get blind from the truth!
\n3. Sapiens: A Brief History Of Human Kind
\nThis is the third and the most influential book for me. The book is a thrilling and the most fascinating account of the long human journey of evolution. From the basic form of monkeys to the development of humans to the great conquerors of the world, we homo Sapiens ( Even though we’re not clearly accurate Sapiens as we think!), have a long story about our unification and political strengthening. I’m sure, this book could change your life perspective.
The only word I could use to express my reading experience is-
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
I am sure these 3 books will revolutionize your present thoughts with powerful words. In my opinion, you must read these books if you love books.
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Every Free plan of Blogging Platform including Medium has its own pros and cons. But whatever be the con, if the below pros are present, no one cares about the problems.
\nNot a single blogging platforms satisfy all these pros in their free plans.
\nWhen we consider Wordpress.com and Wix, they don’t offer good SEO and monetization and also insert forced ads in our blogs. In blogger, all other pros are included except SEO. In the case of medium, it doesn’t pay everyone because it only pays through stripe. Stripe-supported countries are only able to get paid. Vocal media also pays through stripe. Why can’t they pay through Paypal? When we say about Weebly, it is easy to use but doesn’t have good SEO, unlimited disk space, and monetization.
\nWhen it comes to Wordpress.org, it doesn’t offer self-hosting. When I started using wordpress.org with Infinityfree, the site was extremely slow in times of loading and extremely poor in SEO, and doesn’t even offer unmetered traffic. As when it hits 50,000 views, the website is capped and only be available from the next day. Actually, this wasn’t the issue of Wordpress.org, but the matter with Infinityfree. If wordpress.org was having free self-hosting, the problem is solved.
\nSo, there is no way for a blogger to start a free blog and earn money along with SEO. So I decided to create a completely free blogging platform, which satisfies all the pros I said first. Through that, I believe that the dreams of many bloggers like me will come true.
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Religion and atheism are two contrasting ideologies that man believes. Religion is older than atheism and it has certain concepts and rituals, which are followed by its followers. At first, man believed in religion in which nature was involved. Early man may have thought that it was God, who makes rain along with lightning and thunder, and when they progressed, they may even think that God had created Earth for them. We have enough archaeological shreds of evidence for the religious ideas and worshiping of Homo Sapiens from the different parts of the world through intentional burials before 300,000 years and also the earliest evidence for the Paganist religious concepts have been found. We have even found the earliest form of Shiva, a god in Hinduism, who was known at that time as Pashupati (Proto-Shiva). The actual concept of religion was developed in the 16th and 17th centuries.
\nWhen science progressed a little bit, man understood that rain was happening as a part of the water cycle and it was not God who does it. Slowly, science progressed and man realized many natural facts which were thought to be done by God. But the majority of people could not swallow pure science and they still believed in God that, he or she was creating such phenomena.
\nFrom the Vedic age to the present, we developed many religions and lots of people practicing them. Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, and even the latest religion had been developed, which see microchips as Gods!
\nBuddha made Buddhism. Through his disciples, he propagated his own philosophies and he didn’t say to pray to a single person or the Almighty everyone says. He was an agnostic. Before his death, he maintained his ideologies in his disciples but after his death, his disciples turned into many forming three types of Buddhism namely Theravada, Mahayana, and Tibetan Buddhism, and because of this Buddhism lost its prominence.
\nThe same tragedy had happened to Jainism. When Jainism split into two, namely, Svethambaras and Digambaras, it also lost its prominence.
\nJesus, a good philosopher was crucified because he was accused that he tried to create his own empire and at that time crucifixion for sinners who were against the Roman Emperor was common. The Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, who knew that Jesus was innocent, could have helped him. But unfortunately, he stood with the Jewish leaders and he conducted a trial and ordered to crucify Jesus. And Jesus was crucified before his mother, Friends, and other people. It is said that Jesus had suffered for humankind and he washed away all the sins of humankind. On the third day, he had got up from death to life, which people say ‘resurrection’.
\nBut anyway according to common human logic, we could understand a man who died cannot get back to life and I guess that the story of resurrection is a colorful epic created by the Christian priests to declare Jesus as an eternal God. Through that, a great religion rose inside the peoples’ minds.
\nIn the 18th century, there only existed people who believed in God. Because of this, atheism was even questioned.
\nReligion has tightened its fists and the whole of humankind is trapped inside that. There were many dark centuries when Churches and Brahmins ruled. Human beings even give their life in the name of God. Crusades are the best example of that.
\nReligions are of three types namely Polytheistic, dualistic and monotheistic. An example of polytheistic religion is Hinduism, which has 333 deities. But it is having a monotheistic view that Brahman is the ultimate power and it is the only one, which forms 333 deities before us and we are the ones to choose any one of the deities to worship, and through them to reach the concept of Brahman.
\nZoroastrianism by Zarathustra or Zoroaster is a dualistic religion that has two deities. They are good God and Evil God. The religion says that the followers should help the good God, Ahura Mazda, in his battle with evil God. This Religion also has a good point that there are two Gods for good and evil and therefore the evil people are influenced by the evil God. The question of how is evil coming to this world if there is a God is a Question which most monotheistic religions do big Gymnastics to say, and in dualistic religions, it is easy.
\nSikhism is an example of monotheistic religion. People believe in Guru Nanak and his great philosophies about life. Guru Nanak was a rare man who had a different way of thinking. He tried to create a social linking between people to have food from lungar, a common kitchen.
\nThere is also another form of concept, who believes in God, which is known as Pantheism. Pantheism is a concept in which God is given the equal status of the Universe or in other words, we could define it as the concept in which the Universe is thought to be God. The word pantheism was first coined by Joseph Raphson, a mathematician, in 1697. Barunch Spinoza, a 17th-century philosopher made pantheism popular in western culture through his book, Ethics. The word pantheism was derived from πᾶν pan, which means all, of everything and θεός theos, which means God or divine. Giordano Bruno, the martyr of science, the Great cosmologists, and philosophers were also pantheistic. While saying about good Gods, we have to say about Satan worship also. The Order of Nine Angles is one of the famous Satan-worshipping religions which says their own followers violate the social taboos by doing crimes and isolating themselves from society. They are based in The U.K. They propagate their ideas through their own magazine called Fenrir.
\nSome people also think that Illuminati is also a Satan-worshipping religion or organization. Actually, it was an organization formed in the 17th century, 1 May 1776, Ingolstadt, in Germany for the protection of scientists. The Catholic Church made it a Satan-worshipping organization in the peoples’ minds. This organization was found by Adam Weishaupt. Its actual name is Bavarian Illuminati. This organization doesn’t exist today and many people, especially robbers still uses Illuminati as a tag to steal money from people who think Illuminati is a Satanic organization, and when they join such online groups, these smart thieves drain their money.
\nNow, we want to enter atheism. We all know that atheism is the concept that no God exists. They believe that Gods are the imaginations of man. They think with more logic than a theist. The word atheism comes from the Greek word ἄθεος, which means no God. We can recall a famous quoting upon atheism by Ernest Hemmingway in his book, The Farewell of Arms that “Every thinking man are Atheists.”
\nWe can assure that newborn babies are also atheists because they do not know anything about God or any religion.
\nAtheism also has some divisions such as Agnostic atheists, Agnostic theists, and so on. An agnostic atheist says that they do not believe in any God and they do not know about the existence of God. An agnostic theist believes in a deity, but he is also not sure whether God exists or not. Agnosticism is uncertainty about the existence of God.
\nAtheism is also a concept which helps a person to understand more science and enjoy the beauty of true facts. The entire person who believes in God paved its seed inside his or her mind and slowly the people around him or her injects his or her mind that there is a God and we must pray to him. The spiritual odyssey of a human child starts like that. Some people will trust it deeply and some will be pantheistic and some agnostic and the seekers reach to complete atheism.
\nA complete atheist will have a good mind and he will realize that instead of pray, work must be done for the progress of an individual and for the world.
\nIs there a God or is he dead? This is a question which people ask themself. Some say God is the supreme power that sustains life on Earth, energy on the Sun, and the mystery of the Universe.
\nThe religions were created by man to propagate new ideologies and philosophies. The persons who had created religions may never have thought about their religions misused like nowadays. The religions existing all over the world have many good essences, which tries to light up human minds. But unfortunately, today the priests and the heads of every religious society are just trying to expand their own religion by increasing the number of their followers. No leader of a particular religion tries to accept or tolerate another religion’s faith. Every religious leader proclaims that only their religion and faiths are accurate. So we can’t expect any religion existing today could unite the whole society. So in order to unite society, instead of the faith in religions, we must realize the importance of science and technology. First, we must educate every citizen on the world and must understand the basic principles of existence. We all must develop our tolerance to tolerate all faiths. Paradise and hell are not something that waits for you after your death, but something that we could create in our small world. In my opinion, the world must unite with humanity and equality.
\nHere we can recall a religion named Din-I-llahi, made by the Great Mughal Emperor Akbar, in 1582. This religion was based on natural logic. This religion is very special because there are no priests, no holy books, no Idols, and therefore no worship in this religion. Those who believe in this religion used to come and interact to debate upon different facts and problems existing in the society. Akbar took the good essence of religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. In 1575, he constructed Ibadat Khana (House of Worship), in Fatehpur Sikri, to promote debates upon philosophical and religious issues. Akbar never compelled anyone to join his religion and his great lesson for all those of the people was to tolerate everyone’s faith. Birbal, Abu’lFazi ibn Mubarak and so on persons were the initiated disciples of Din-I-llahi.
\nReligion must not be a log to science because, without scientific development, man cannot acquire the secret of the Universe.
\nAtheism is a religion that helps people to understand themselves and their positive as well as negatives.
\nThere are many bloodshed stories if we look inside the wounds upon the history of science and scientists. Giordano Bruno, a great scientist who lived in 16th was ordered to apologize by saying he was wrong. He said that Sun and the entire planets are not revolving around Earth, but Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun. He also predicted the presence of life outside the Earth. This made the Christian Priests shiver with anger and he didn’t apologize for his statement. Thus, he was burned to death. Years after the great scientist Galileo Galilee also said that Earth revolves around the Sun. By hearing this, The Christian church pressured him to apologize and they added that if he is not ready for that, he will be also burned to death. By hearing this Galileo apologized and he apologized. At last of his apologies, he said that, when I apologize too, the Earth revolves around the Sun.
\nBut how can anyone hold up the truths? The truth came out and because of that science is widely accepted and people believe in science. Dr. Mani Bhaumik through his book Code Name God says that a supreme spiritual power exists in the whole Universe and he also holds the science on his other hand to understand the exact principle of the Universe. In Code Name God’s last sentence says his opinion about the existence of God: “It is the power of one source, the order that underlines and enfolds all orders, that unifies all fields and forms, as well as consciousness, and it will not, by now, surprise you to hear my assertion that we call this source by its code name: God.”
\nOther than God-worshipping religions, we have another type of ideologies in which some people still believe. Sadism is one among them. Sadism is said to be a psychosexual disorder, which makes a man feel happy when other beings are feeling pain due to their cruel sex which is inflicted on them. The person who gets happiness when he inflicts pain sexually on another and the receiver who feels happy when the pain is inflicted upon him are both sadists. In the 19th century, a German psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebbing found this psychological disease in reference to an 18th-century French nobleman, Marquis de Sade, who followed such practices. To a sadist, pain and pleasure are correlated in that they think that happiness can be brought out through painful experiences. In Eleven Minutes, by Paulo Coelho, the main character Maria, a prostitute experiences a sadist rape by Terence, a complete sadist. Anyway, Sadomasochism is not good to be continued because these persons love to see people feeling pain. In my opinion, such persons must be taken to any wellness hospitals and must be given proper medications.
\nA great example of the sadist religious group is Opus Dei, which is a religious group that believes in Jesus. Those who believe in Opus Dei wear a chain full of thorns in their thighs and beats themselves using a whip. They think that God will only give them Paradise if they only rape them and slay others who do not believe in God.
\nThe religions we see nowadays are mixtures of other religions’ concepts. For example, the Paradise-Hell concept actually comes from Zoroastrianism. But now it had become a part of most of the religions. Likewise, the monotheist Christians or Islams believe in several saints, which makes a polytheistic background. The Devil is the concept of Dualistic religions and people from different religions believe in that. All these causes the mixing of religious prospects and this type of belief system is known as religious syncretism and according to Harari, it is the largest religion in this world.
\nThere was a time when the religions had tied all the human beings in a dark world. The light of reality was far away from the believers. The Gods were thought to be angry when the believers do not offer him enough prayers, sacrifices, and special pujas. The priests made a social structure to the society, by making themself the rulers of the society. Atheism was being questioned and the scientists who told the truth were brutally murdered. They said to the people that they are to be treated first because they are the middle-man between the great God and the believers. All must accept the laws and orders created by them. What the priest says is the truth and whoever tries to argue with him will be punished to death.
\nThey made lots of money by squeezing the pockets of the believers. They converted many people from different religions with and without their will. The church was becoming a big social power. Their power lasted for lots of years and they tried to make the world under their control.
\nIn India, Brahmins, who were the priests were in the first position among the classification of castes. According to the order of positions, the caste was delivered into four- Brahmanas (priests), Kshatriyas (Rulers), Vaishyas (traders), and Shudras (Farmers and slaves). Brahmanas were the people who had supreme power. They enjoyed their life by making all other castes under their domain. Nobody dared to protest Brahmins, because those who protested were killed or silenced. They cut the fingers, put the fingers in boiled oil of those low castes who even touched the Vedas. Those poor low castes, who even accidentally heard the Vedas, were punished by closing their ears forever using melted metals. There were many cruelties taken place. And after many years only people realized the hollowness of such deeds. I thank all people including the great leaders and persons who take part in the renaissance movements that happened in India, which helped to eradicate the Caste system.
\nNow, let us come back to our main theme: Religion Versus Atheism. Religion is a concept where there is an eternal power that sustains this Universe and atheism denies that concept and quotes boldly that there are no such powers.
\nLet us have to look at the structure of a religion.
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Faith or belief in God is the foundation of every religion and no religion exists without belief. The second essential factor in religion is the unquestionable facts about the existence of God. We can also describe the second factor as the heart of religion. The Follower strength and the growth in followers is the best indicator to identify the growth of every religion. According to the latest surveys, Christianity and Islam are in the first and second positions. The third position is for atheists and agnostics. The fourth is Hinduism and Buddhism in the fifth position. At the top, we know that the concept of God, or the eternal power reigns.
\nIn the case of atheism, there are two structures because agnostic atheism and complete atheism varies each other.
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Figure 1 shows the structure of agnostic atheism and Figure 2 shows the structure of complete atheism.
\nThe Figure 1 and 2 believes that there are no Gods. Both have the same foundations. But on the next step onwards they are different. Figure 1 is not sure about the existence of God and if anyone asks a person, who believes in Figure 2, he will answer, ”I do not know, and if I believe there is no God.”
\nFigure 2 believes strongly that no God exists. Figure 1 upholds mobile atheism and Figure 2, complete atheism.
\nMobile atheism is a division in atheism when people have no faith in God, but uncertainty about the existence of God. Mobile atheism can also be referred to as agnostic atheism.
\nTo be an atheist is not just a person who does not believe in God, but a person with a light in his mind, who has a long sight to the future and the proper analyzing capacity of the historical incidents and thereby propagating his own ideas and philosophies about life and how to gain a strong, sustainable development in the future. A good atheist can speak about science and reality but he cannot compel his ideas on another person.
\nAtheists and spiritualists should not be rivals, even though they have different prospects. They should work for each other to gain progress for humankind.
\nSome say that there is God, who had created this Universe and the God, or the supreme power may not have the power to alter the diseases spread out in the society and that power cannot create any physical changes in any persons. If he could, there will not be any hospitals but only temples or churches and no doctors, only priests. We do not know whether there exists a God or not. The greatest success for the religion is that there are no scientific answers to the question, ‘Whether a God exists?’ Until the real answer comes, we could only splash in the pool of human assumptions. A person, who believes a God exists, and when he or she prays to him or her, he or she could gain psychological satisfaction, then, what is the problem? It is a true fact that faith in ourselves or in a supreme power gives us self-confidence and relaxation. Until the existence of God or the non-existence of God is scientifically proved, let us wait patiently.
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Before the Jurassic Era, the mangroves appeared on Earth. That is the beginning of the great epic Mangrove drama, which encircles the history of a vast species. It was only at the time of Spanish Colonization, these trees were dragged to great sufferings. The Spanish cut down these trees by thinking these are wastelands and the worst fact is that they didn’t even try to plant any other trees or utilize these lands. But years later we realize the truth, that it was not a waste, but our savior. The Mangroves, one of the fantastic ecosystems, have a crucial role in our biodiversity. What will happen in this scene of Mangrove Drama? Let us examine the factors and let us predict the future.
\nMangrove forests are marvelous ecosystems and also a great life sustainer. They are correlated to most of the life-sustaining processes so that we could live upon here. From the pollutants to heavy metals, they block them from destroying a vast number of life forms from the hands of extinction. The latest reports and news have helped the majority of humans to understand the importance of mangrove forests. We have known their prominence nowadays only and up to that, there weren’t any big researches and reports which came out as a light to these poor trees. From sustaining the food chain to regulating the day-to-day carbon emissions, Mangroves are helping us more than our eligibility.
\nFirstly, we can have a look at the etymology of the term Mangrove, which comes to English from Español (mangle) or Portuguese (mangue) or Guarani. In earlier times, it wasn’t Mangrove, but Mangrow. But, the word was mistaken by the Folk etymology, which gave its name as Mangrove.
\nThere are approximately 80 types of Mangroves all over the world. Some of them in their common names are Black mangrove, Buttonwood mangrove, white mangrove, Mangrove palm, Red mangrove, Mangrove apple, and so on. Let us look at a very few and important species among them.
\nThe first species is Heritiera Fomes, which is very much familiar to us. It is also known in a variety of names such as sunder, Sundari, jekanazo, and pinlekanazo. Heritiera Fomes is the Mangrove species we see in Sunderbans in India and Bangladesh. In Sunderbans, this mangrove species is widely seen and while taking the area, 70 percent of the trees present there are Sundaris. This species is well-known for its timber.
\nThis species is widely seen more in Indo-Pacific regions from the east coast of India to Thailand. When we compare Sundari with other mangrove varieties, it grows in very low saline environments and frequently inundated drier grounds. This tree (Sundari) was given the name of Sunderbans, which means ‘Beautiful Forest’ in Bangla. Sunderbans is home to approximately 180 species of organisms.
\nUnfortunately, Sundaris are on the verge of extinction due to overharvesting, diversions in water in the Ganges Basin, instability in salinity due to the upstream and coastal development, and because of top dying disease, which is becoming more acute than in the past. This species is assessed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
\nSince the 1980s, this species has been disappearing from Sunderbans because of top dying diseases and other types of dangerous diseases. Normally, Mangrove species have high resistance against such diseases but climate change and the change in the proportion of brackish water and sweet water reduces their immunity and thereby make them less- immune to such diseases. 1.44 million cubic meters Mangrove forest has been destroyed only in Sunderbans, which have an approximate value 2,000 crores and instead of Mangroves, Gewa and Goran, two types of forest trees are grown in their place. There is a 50 percent growth for these trees.
\nThis is all because of the destruction of the special natural environment of the Mangroves. We can’t expect that that environment could be brought back completely. According to Ainun Nishat, a water expert as well as a mangrove conserver, there are now 85.67 crores of Sundaris in Sundarbans but unfortunately, these all are on the verge of extinction. The decreasing prevention of Mangroves against the diseases is because of the increase of salt. Md Bashirul-al-Mamun, who is the West Divisional Forest Officer in Sunderbans, said that he and his officers found 30 ppm of salinity in the water in Sunderbans, which is said to be destroying the trees such as Passur, Shingra, Amur, Dhundal, Kakra including Sundaris. To save these trees from entire destruction, we must work from today. All we have done up to today was not right, but there is no time to sit idle and regret. Let us work as a combined force, which may have helped us to save these precious gifts of Nature. If we, as a whole, work to save the rest of this fabulistic ecosystem, then we could manage to protect the rest of them, at least a small percent.
\nThe second one is Avicennia Germinans, also known as black mangrove, which is also an important mangrove variety, which could be seen in the tropical and subtropical intertidal zones of the Gulf of Mexico. This is a hybrid form of Mangrove researched and prepared by our environment that can flourish at a higher pace than any other mangrove species. This Mangrove variety can produce its young ones through its seeds, which could float on water and could move along with the waves in the sea. It is well established in the Gulf of Mexico but it could be seen on some of the other coasts near to it. Black mangroves can survive in any saline condition but only in a particular salinity, their leaves could widen more.
\nBlack mangroves are shrubs with hardwood, which survive in salt marshes. It is adapted to very harsh climate environments and where salinity level is unstable. It has very long and thick roots with a lot of lenticels, which enables them to hold the soil tightly and thereby control soil erosion. It is also home to many species including fishes and crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, and barnacles. The dead leaves and twigs or detritus of mangroves feed a lot of microorganisms and thereby manufactures a complete ecosystem’s products. 80 percent of the organic budget of bays in Florida comes from these black mangroves and other mangroves nearby. The black mangroves not only provide a home to marine organisms but also many types of coastal birds including Brown Pelicans.
\nNow we can take another important mangrove species known as Buttonwood Mangroves or simply button mangroves. The scientific name of this species is Conocarpus Erectus. This species is very different from that of the others. It is multiple trunked shrubs with a height of one to four meters and a maximum of 5 meters. Like black mangroves, these trees also disperse seeds in water and these seeds travel along with the waves to nearby coastal regions and establish their kingdom there. These trees survive in tidal lagoons and bays in brackish waters and also, these trees can grow in inland habitats. This species mainly grows in Costa Rica at an altitude of 745 meters or 2,444 feet from sea level.
\nThese trees are said to be very good for using as firewood to smoke fish and meat because it burns very slowly in a higher heat than any other wood and also produces the best charcoal in the world. This mangrove species is also used as an ornamental plant and as a bonsai. Even though it is not grown so wide, this mangrove is not said to be on the verge of extinction. But, if climate changes result in high salinity and fluctuation in water, it could be driven into that threat. But its ability to live in inland areas gives it much more security from extinction than any other mangrove species.
\nThe next two paragraphs are dedicated to the two most important mangrove species such as white mangroves and red mangroves, which have a specialty in their reproduction.
\nThis mangrove species has spread widely from the East coast of Africa, through South-West Asia to South Asia to Australia and in South of New Zealand. The list is extended to the Arabian countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, and throughout both sides of the Red sea, which includes countries such as Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Eritrea and Sudan, and Southern Iran and along the Persian Gulf Coast. To say the list again is just to write the names of the countries and if we are trying to do so, then a majority of this essay would be occupied by them. But we could say that this species is well established in Africa that one-third of the mangrove species present there is Red Mangrove.
\nThis species is said to be grown as a shrub or a tree to a height of three to ten meters and in tropical regions, this will grow into 14 meters. It has multiple branches and smooth and light grey bark (which gave its name to this mangrove as white mangrove or grey mangrove) which is made up of thin and stiff flakes which are whitish. The arrangement of the leaves of this mangrove is very thick and five to eight centimeters lengthy and has a bright green color. This tree could grow up to a height of twenty centimeters and a diameter of 1 centimeter. This mangrove species has its own bright golden yellow flowers and fruits. The fruit of this plant is large and very fleshy as the seed germinates on the tree itself and falls as seedlings. The increase in water salinity can prevent this mangrove from growing to its maximum height and could make it dwarfs. But, it could grow to its height where both saline and fresh waters are present. It is said that this mangrove species could tolerate salinity by excreting excessive salts through their leaves. It could resist extreme weather conditions and different types of pests and diseases such as top dying disease and heart rot disease and so on. It is a special mangrove species that could grow in a pH value of 6.5 to 8.0. Even though it has this many qualities, it is intolerable to shade and in such a condition his variety could not survive. This mangrove species is not said to be on the verge of extinction because of its wonderful qualities, but we can’t assure that its existence would last long if the world continues like today.
\nNow, we can have a look at Rhizophora Mangle, which is commonly known as Red Mangrove. It is commonly seen throughout the tropical and subtropical areas in both hemispheres. The seeds of this mangrove species become mature plants before dropping them off from the parent mangrove. These seedlings are capable of both water and wind pollination. These mangroves grow up to a modest height of 20 feet but in ideal conditions, it grows into a height of 80 feet. These trees have thick and hard barks with a grey-brown color. These trees have left of about 2.5 to 5.1 centimeters wide and 7.6 to 12.7 cm long, with smooth margins and elliptical shape, and have dark green on both sides of the leaf. In the spring season, these mangroves produce yellow flowers.
\nThe Red Mangroves grow on aerial prop roots that could be seen outside the water level. It is seen in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas coastal ecosystems. But there are a lot of threats before this mangrove species. Schinus Terebinthifolius, also known as the Brazilian Pepper tree is considered an invasive species which threatens the establishment of Red Mangroves. In some places such as Hawaii, red mangroves are considered an invasive species because they grow densely there. Anyway, this mangrove species is considered a vital species because it provides shelter and hunting habitat to vast species including birds, fishes, and Crocodiles.
\nMangroves can be considered as shrubs or most probably small trees. These small trees are mainly seen in tropical and subtropical latitudes near the equator as they are not able to stand against freezing temperatures. But they can withstand up to a cool temperature of 50 Celsius. They are adapted to survive in brackish water or coast and are adapted to live in harsh sea weather conditions. They have a very complex saltwater filtration through their thick roots and resist the salt immersion and huge wave actions. They are present in slow-moving waters which allow the accumulation of fine sediments. They exist mainly on less Oxygen available waterlogged mud and absorb a huge amount of Carbon Dioxide than any other trees.
\nEven though Mangroves are playing a vital role in the slowing down of Global Warming, we are floccinaucinihilipilificating them. We do not understand that they are above our status and instead of tormenting them, we must protect them as they protect us from huge, disastrous waves, which could drive us into a huge catastrophe. Nevertheless, we are humans and we know that our mind alteration is somewhat complex, that many of us will still survive for termination and the only thing we could do is to try to conserve them to our maximum.
\nMany of us may know the facts which I have said now. The following paragraphs are going to discuss the origin, existence, advantages, and our role in this mangrove drama and so going facts that evoke a critical response in every one of us.
\nThe Mangrove Drama had started 66 million years ago. After the origin, the mangroves started exploring with their floating propagules and seeds along with the ocean currents, to the westward, India and East Africa, and Eastwards to America, by conquering coasts of Central and South America. The flourishing of the great Mangroves is said to be between 66 million years ago, in the Upper Cretaceous Period and Lower Miocene Epoch. According to the Geological period, the Upper Cretaceous Period is the last three periods of the Mesozoic Era, which began 145.0 million years ago which lasted up to 66 million years ago, which was followed by the Jurassic period succeeded by the Paleogene period and the period before Oligocene and Pliocene, before 23.03 to 5.3 million years ago, which had warmer climates than the following periods, is what we call the Lower Miocene Epoch. The kelp forests and grasslands, which are the two main important ecosystems first formed at the Oligocene and Pliocene periods.
\nDuring the two main periods such as the Upper Cretaceous Period and the Lower Miocene Epoch, Mangroves spread all over the Caribbean Sea mainly on where today’s Panama lies. Later the Mangroves may have reached the western coast of Africa and New Zealand which lies far away in the South. This will be the reason for the increase of Mangroves in Asia, especially in India and Bangladesh, and in East Africa, where we could find a vast species of Mangroves, whereas we could only find a very few species in America and West Africa.
\nThe Mangrove Drama is continuing on the stage while we are standing on the stage ignorant about the role of the main character. We cannot argue that we are the domain of this environment and that Stock Exchange and American Presidents are the major factors that influence the complete Earth. Here, economy and administrative power do not have much place than the lungs of the Earth, especially Mangrove forests. Instead of stone-breaking orders, we need stone-breaking responsibility towards the environment and our fellow beings, which includes not only humans but also all other species surviving on the Earth. Because of our stupid activities, the entire Global system got damaged. All that happened was a toy given to an infant, which he played well in his way.
\nEven though we cannot bring our Earth to the times of the Hunter-gatherers, we could at least create a far better green society than the contemporary society. To live as human beings, we all depend on different types of inevitable things such as oxygen, water, and food. In our present situation, more than any other plants, Mangroves and Bamboo are most useful to all of us. Bamboos grow fast and it gives strong protection against soil erosion. But more than that, Mangroves are helping us. The following paragraphs could give you much more explanations about their services to our Global System.
\nThe Mangrove Forests are a great ecosystem, which provides food and shelter to a vast array of species. The entire living organisms in the world are very much linked to the mangrove forests either directly or indirectly. An 80 percent of organisms such as fishes, lobsters, cretaceous, and even small micro-organisms in the ocean ecosystem, are directly linked with Mangrove forests and the extinction of Mangroves can drive a lot of species in the world into complete extinction. The micro-organisms in the mangroves live by breaking down the organic matters such as mangrove leaves and twigs. These microorganisms are eaten by some other fish babies and these small fishes are eaten by a huge fish and after the death of the fish it is eaten by microorganisms and this process continues to reign for many many years without an end, until the death of one of the species. One of the extinctions in the cyclic food chain could distort the balance and could even lead to the destruction of the entire species.
\nMangrove Forests reduce the threats of soil erosion, Tsunamis, coastlines, and strong tidal waves.
\nNot only the marine organisms but also all of us are enjoying the products or partnership products of Mangroves. The rural communities who all work as fishermen and so on are very much dependent on these mighty trees.
\nMangroves improve the water quality of the waters they survive. They filter the waters with their high dense network of roots and trap heavy metals, pollutants, and other sediments. The coral reefs and seagrasses are often seen along with the mangrove trees because the mangroves filter all the problematic sediments which come along with the water bodies. The coral reefs and seagrasses are both very sensitive and pollutants could destroy them easily. So to survive, these two species must be along with Mangroves.
\nThese trees provide a vast breeding and hunting habitat to almost all organisms in the marine ecosystem. Caranx Spp or most probably Kingfishes, Sheepshead (Archosargus phallusosephalus), Grunts (Haemulon Spp), Gobies (Gobiosoma spp), Schoolmasters (Lutjanus Apodus), Gray Snappers ( Lutjanus Griseus), and Small Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus Itajara), are some important fish species who all breeds and lives in the mangrove forests. Salmon Fish (Salmo Salar) is an example of an important fish species which breeds in the mangrove forests. There are a lot of fish species that depend on the mangrove forests for breeding and hunting. Not only fishes but also others such as shrimps, crabs, crab-eating monkeys, and even tigers are very much dependent on these tree species. The best example of this is the Royal Bengal Tigers in Sunderbans. The Bengal Tigers in Sunderbans are always dependent on the mangroves for food and shelter. There are about 108 tigers in Sunderbans now. If Sunderbans get distorted, then the Bengal tigers would get into trouble and loss the natural habitat, their species may get to the verge of extinction.
\nMangroves have great carbon storage that they have a forte to suck more carbon and other greenhouse gases to trap in the soil they are rooted in. They capture more carbon than any other type of forest. It is said that a matured mangrove forest could store three to five times more carbon equivalent area than any tropical forests such as the Amazon Rainforest. To conserve mangroves is enough to fight against the major environmental problems such as increased Carbon emissions which lead to Global Warming, and its side results such as intolerable climate changes, the rise of sea levels, and so on.
\nMangroves are sometimes food providers that Acrostichum Aureum is a mangrove species which have seeds and fiddleheads which are edible if cooked. The fruits of certain mangroves are also edible.
\nThese trees also provide many traditional and also modern medicines. The mangroves were first exploited for firewood and charcoal and no one realized it as a medicine for many diseases and conditions. Each mangrove species has various uses. For Example, Acanthus ebracteatus Vabl is a mangrove species in which its leaf juice is used to preserve hair. There are many more mangroves which are very valuable medicines.
\nThe mangroves also provide a high resistive defense for the shore and thereby protect the complete structure, whether natural or man-made, from huge tidal waves and Tsunamis. Not only Mangroves provides shelter and manufactures invaluable natural food products, but also directly gives us Commercial Projects such as Eco-Tourism and so on. Through Ecotourism a huge amount of money could be brought to a country or a place. The Mangrove Forests are becoming a superb tourist attraction, which if given enough marketing will provide us a lot of money. But, the Mega Tourism could slay Mangroves and could result in heavy locked damage to our ecosystem. So, if we are concerned about our future generation, we must sustainably achieve development. Many countries including India and China must realize the importance of sustainable development. Industrial Pollution is creating a mega impact on the whole biosphere and if not choosing a path that is equally suitable for both Nature and us, we may have regret our later causes, which will indeed make our planet Earth not suitable for life. The Mangrove Forests are said to be the greatest carbon consumers in the world and therefore we must nurture them for our future and also for all the future generations of all organisms sustaining in the world.
\nThere are a lot of threats faced by every mangrove community which of course, include Mega Tourism and Industrial Water Pollution. Mega Tourism projects which completely alter the natural environment could slay the mangroves. The water pollution which includes oil spilled and the side effects of Herbicides such as Glypho-Glyphosate 41 SL, Paraquat (Gramoxone), Atrazine, Triclopyr, and so on, could destruct the entire ecosystems including mangroves. In the case of mangroves, it could even tolerate high salinity but not a little bit of water pollution. To avoid such harmful substances is better for the forthcoming world.
\nAnother Global threat is Shrimp Farming which causes huge damage to our ecosystem. While farming shrimp on a business scale, hundreds of thousands of wetlands including mangrove forests and similar ecosystems are cleared to make artificial ponds, in which a large scale amount of shrimp is nurtured to grow on a commercial basis. The shrimp farmers dig many channels to supply these ponds with seawater and freshwater. These channels affect the natural flow of water which plays a major role in the health of the mangroves and similar ecosystems. These diversions in water could harm mangrove seeds which should be dispersed in the seawater and it could also kill them because of the lack of availability of freshwater. The shrimp farmers commonly use many types of antibiotics and chemicals and also the huge amount of organic wastes could contaminate the nearby freshwater and seawater resources. This can also cause the depletion of natural biodiversity which includes some rare species of fish, lobsters, and so on.
\nChopping down of mangroves for timber and charcoal is also not at all desirable and we may later be responsible for vast ecological damage. Once, it becomes severe, it is harsh to reset it back. So, to utilize the biological resources without any harm to them could only create a more stable world. Conserving the advantage mangroves is a better way to resist two-third of global ecological problems.
\nEven though Mangroves have a great many advantages it also has some disadvantages in some strange viewpoints. The mangroves should only be planted in places where there are no other native plant species because the mangroves absorb a good amount of nutrients from the soil and also from other native plants which may result in rapid growth and development in mangroves and weakening and destruction of the nearby plant species. For everything, there is a negative point. Without researching and analyzing the particular conditions in a particular area we must not attempt to grow any plant species because we may have thought the outcome will be good, but the veracity will be just vice versa. A great example of it is what had happened in 1906 in Nigeria after planting mangroves.
\nThe Nigerian Government knew that to protect the shorelines from coastal erosion, it is best to plant mangroves and it is even heard that mangroves could even reduce the chance and impacts of Tsunami. And the Nigerian Government implemented it in Nigeria that they exported hundreds of Nipa Palms, which is a variety of Mangroves from Singapore, and planted it on the coastlines of Nigeria. The Mangroves grew and developed densely at a high pace but the nearby native trees disappeared and were replaced by these Mangroves.
\nThe second disadvantage of Mangroves is that through this mosquitos increase. The mosquitoes normally increase in stagnant saltwater in mangrove swamps, where black mangroves survive. These mosquitoes are epidemic carriers and pests to many organisms in the world.
\nThe third one is that the mangrove forests normally have a foul smell of rotten eggs which many of us may find disgusting. The odor which comes from the mangroves is because of the breakdown of organic matter by the microorganisms for their livelihood. The decaying of organic matter includes many chemical processes. The formation of Hydrogen Sulphide, the by-product of the sulfur reaction is the secret behind this foul fragrance.
\nThe post problems are somewhat of a problem on special occasions but while considering the sustainable perspective, Mangroves are not a wasteland of many useless trees. Instead, they are treasures in the eyes of an environmentalist. Let us remember the words of an ordinary fisherman in Southern Thailand, If there are no mangrove forests, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree with no roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea.
\nThese words themselves approve of the significance of mangroves in our biodiversity.
\nWe must certainly conserve the mangroves as it is a matter of fact that affects our whole biosphere. We could conserve mangroves by prohibiting the destruction of mangroves by the black hands of industrialists. A few laws over the world countries such as the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 in India, Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) in the USA, National Protection and Preservation of Forest Act in the Philippines are all almost successful in preventing the destruction of mangrove forests and protecting other forest areas. By creating artificial mangrove forests concerning the research data that can help to find the better mangrove variety that could be grown in that distinct area would be helpful for the better development of the mangroves.
\nAnyway, to use these ‘treasure roots’ wisely is the job of man and nothing else while considering the Mangrove Drama. But what happens on the stage is just the opposite of what we are appointed to. We are taking everything for granted. This way of acting is not at all desirable for humans, because there are a lot of characters in this drama who are long and short roles and we must consider the roles of all other animals rather than taking over the stage for ourselves. It is better to conserve mangroves and other trees than distorting them to mass destruction that could drive many species out of the drama and we could sit for ourselves on the stage by putting many chairs like taking a group photo of the century. But after a few days, the numbers of the members will start decreasing because of lack of resources to have. Then slowly, the drape will fall over the stage by showing a scene of a complete Graveyard.
\nTo avoid such a dreadful scene let us work from now. We must reduce our water pollution and cutting down trees, most importantly, the Mangroves. As only water pollution could distort the complete mangroves from this world. To oppose such a disaster, we must work from now.
\nEvery act which is not well planned and analyzed could create a huge problem for every one of us. Mangroves could be taken as the partnership manufacturing company working at Nature. We cannot say Mangroves are bad just because of their foul smell and we cannot say that they are not good just because mosquitoes flourish from such an ecosystem because we humans are more disastrous than the mosquitoes and no other organism could resist us in our destructive spirit. We all must admit that we are not the domain in the biosphere, but just another species like every other. Greed is not the piece of cloth required for sustainable development. Instead, we want an economy based on tolerable and sustainable environmental policies. For a better life along with the icing peace, we need to grow and develop more than today not just with our economy but also with our environment. To create such a tree-full and peaceful life, we need mangroves, we need trees, we need other organisms and also we need a peaceful biosphere. What we live up to today is just the past, and what we are in the future is just the future, and what we are now, and what we are doing now, is more important than anything. We all know that mangroves can save us and we and they are both made for each other protectors. For survival in this world, we need to cooperate.
\nIn short, mangroves are very dense and the best ecosystems, homes, and hunting habitat of many species and great carbon storage and a good friend to all organisms including humans. But they are on the verge of extinction and to save them is literally to save us itself. We must prevent their extinction and thereby we could prevent the extinction of a vast amount of species including humans. We can all believe that the mangrove drama is in its most suspenseful and threatening progress and can hope that the happy and prosperous climax is too close. A herculean work at this eleventh hour by considering the pros and cons could only help in the growth of a pulchritude and an amazingly eco-friendly world, where the most threatening ecological issues will no longer exist.
", "author": { "name": "Akhilesh A S" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2021-06-13T16:51:58+05:30", "date_modified": "2021-06-13T16:51:58+05:30" }, { "id": "https://akhileshas.netlify.app/the-great-barrier-reef-an-account-on-how-global-warming-destroys-one-of-the-biggest-marine-culture/", "url": "https://akhileshas.netlify.app/the-great-barrier-reef-an-account-on-how-global-warming-destroys-one-of-the-biggest-marine-culture/", "title": "The Great Barrier Reef: An Account On How Global Warming Destroys One Of The Biggest Marine Culture", "summary": " What Happens To The great Barrier Reefs? Introduction To The Great Barrier Reef And Global Warming We all have heard and seen coral reefs and their fantastic beauty. But has anyone of us know that this fantastic marine culture is dying due to us?…", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*BhvhurHqZdA8RKNg\")
Introduction To The Great Barrier Reef And Global Warming
\nWe all have heard and seen coral reefs and their fantastic beauty. But has anyone of us know that this fantastic marine culture is dying due to us? Even if you know, as anyone taking any measures in their individual lives to save it from such a catastrophe? The questions are endless.
\nThere are lots of corals in the ocean, but the most important one among them is the Great Barrier Reef, present in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s biggest coral reef, is present in the Pacific ocean along the coast of Queensland, Australia, stretching about 2000 kilometers. It is said that it’s seen even from space. It consists of 3000 individual reefs in several shapes and colors, which provides a home to a variety of species from common to rare. The Great Barrier Reef is home to clownfishes, sharks, whales, giant clams, along with sea cows, a species on the verge of extinction, and the biggest spot for seven and more turtle species. These all prove what a brilliant culture is the Great Barrier Reef.
\nHowever, this marine wonder is in extreme jeopardy — Global Warming. Global warming is actually the daughter of man and industry. Since the 19th century, it had started numerous disasteral projects all over Earth. The ocean level rise due to thermal expansion and melting of ice caps, the ozone layer depletion, ocean acidification, and all are parts of Global warming. Since the worst of the species, humans,(Yes, it is ourselves.) never altered their policies, Global warming has grown to a catastrophic reality. The carbon emissions of industries are the major factor that leads to global warming. This in turn destroys the corals, the marvelous marine ecosystem.
\nHow do Corals Form?
\nWhen the free-swimming coral larvae attach to hard surfaces or submerged rocks, which are seen along the edges of the islands and continents, coral reefs begin to form. When these corals develop and expand, reefs take three major characteristic structures such as fringing, barrier, or atoll.
\nHow Are Corals Destroyed?
\nHigh temperatures in the ocean are the main cause of coral bleaching. Whenever the water gets heated above a limit, the corals will expel the algae called zooxanthellae, which live in their tissues. This results in the whitening of corals.
\nThe corals are also destroyed due to extremely low tides, severe sunlight, and so on. But the major reason is global warming itself.
\nWhat Happens To The Bleached Corals?
\nWhen the zooxanthellae, a photosynthetic that provides color to the corals are expelled, the corals actually lose their stability. Zooxanthellae actually sustain the corals by providing food instead of shelter. When they are expelled it causes the destruction of both.
\nThe bleached corals are vulnerable to diseases, which stunt their growth and result in low reproduction. This is indeed equal to their destruction.
\nRemember, corals also have life and they are just like all animals. They do have food and excrete like all of us.
\nWhat Does The Destruction Of Corals Result?
\nCorals cover only 0.0025 percent of the ocean. But they do more services than any other species. When corals are destructed there are a couple of things to consider.
\n➣ They release half of the oxygen on Earth by absorbing one-third of carbon dioxide. So we can imagine how harmful it will be to humans if corals are destroyed as the amount of Carbon Dioxide will increase in the atmosphere. Without corals, the ocean won’t be able to absorb more quantities of Oxygen.
\n➣ Destruction of corals will certainly affect the growth of native fishes and as well as a variety of species. We need to consider that the entire food chain will pay for it. The destruction of fishes will lead to the fish communities and as well as human communities finding new resources for food and well-being.
\n➣ The lack of ocean resources related to corals will disappear. This will lead the world to unemployment for billions of people, which makes them run out of income.
\nA Final Word
\nTo regain the corals is simple today if we decrease our carbon emissions right now. But if we can’t, it will certainly take more risk and time. There was some good news that the coral reefs were regaining their state to a small portion when the Covid pandemic had driven us to our homes. But the situation had already changed as the industries had been opened and our carbon emissions will be very high than ever. So if we wanna save the Earth from it, we should start the processes now. Or else, it will be too late to get the past glory of corals.
", "author": { "name": "Akhilesh A S" }, "tags": [ ], "date_published": "2021-06-13T16:49:39+05:30", "date_modified": "2021-06-13T16:49:39+05:30" }, { "id": "https://akhileshas.netlify.app/how-to-make-music-at-home-at-no-cost/", "url": "https://akhileshas.netlify.app/how-to-make-music-at-home-at-no-cost/", "title": "How To Make Music At Home At No Cost", "summary": " Lots of us love to hear music. But some of us often thought about music production, haven’t we? So in this blog post, I would focus on how to make music at home at no cost. 1. GroovePad Groovepad is an app available on…", "content_html": "![](\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*NE0fm3sXPjkkA91U.jpg\")
Lots of us love to hear music. But some of us often thought about music production, haven’t we? So in this blog post, I would focus on how to make music at home at no cost.
\n1. GroovePad
\n![](\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*YFfpftoSsFphYywL.jpg\")
Groovepad is an app available on both Android and iOS. It helps to make marvelous music beats, especially Hip-Hop beats. But it can be also used to make other beat genres such as dubstep, EDM, and even Pop. It has also an alternative called Groovyloops, but I don’t recommend it due to low-quality music beats. So, why waiting, check it out!
\n2. BandLab
\n![](\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*t0kaNqTc-M3W5S8Q.jpg\")
If you haven’t heard of bandLab, it is such a big loss for you. Because, bandLab is such a big music community, where you can make music using their online daw, and publish it under a creative commons license. It helps you to create as well as develop your music interest and abilities.
\n3. Cakewalk
\n![](\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*IYDQmgywn9AB6Xb2.png\")
Cakewalk is an award-winning daw by BandLab for advanced music production. They are giving it away completely free at no cost. It is compatible with only Windows at 64 bit. It has lots of plugins, instruments, fx, loops, and you can even add more plugins to it.
\n4. GarageBand
\nGarageBand is also a free daw, which has high performance than the cakewalk sonar daw. But the sad news is that it is only available for Mac users. But never get despressed, because Cakewalk is not a bad one, but GarageBand is better.
\n5. Audacity
\n![](\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*bgnSAtAEx06IStv1.jpg\")
Audacity is a very famous audio application available for everyone at no cost. It is an open-source application under a GNU license. It is easier to use than Cakewalk, but remember, it cannot satisfy you like Cakewalk or GarageBand, and cannot be used for standard music production alone. But it will be better for beginners. The good news is that it is available for all three major OS such as Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux.
\n6. Soundtrap
\nSoundtrap is a famous online device audio workstation that could be used for music production. It has a marvelous free plan and a premium plan. With this, we can make music and also podcasts without downloading unlike the above softwares. This was bought by spotify in 2017, so you may not even have to think about its safety.
\nThese are some of the best applications for music production and you may also find more resources on the internet.
\nSearch More, Find More. Good luck!
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