From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them Published: 11 March 2006
01 Coffee:
The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia , when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London.
The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.
02 Pin-Hole Camera:
The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.
03 Chess:
A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia . From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan . The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.
04 Parachute:
A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing.
Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.
05 Shampoo:
Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not
wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.
06 Refinement:
Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.
07 Shaft:
The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.
08 Metal Armor:
Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China . But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.
09 Pointed Arch:
The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim.
10 Surgery:
Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon.
It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it.
Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.
11 Windmill:
The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.
12 Vaccination:
The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.
13 Fountain Pen:
The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.
14 Numerical Numbering:
The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi' s book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi's discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.
15 Soup:
Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal - soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas - see No 4).
16 Carpets:
Carpets were regarded as part of Paradise by medieval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam's non-representationa l art. In contrast, Europe's floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were "covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned".
Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.
17 Pay Cheques:
The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad.
18 Earch is in sphere shape?
By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the
Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40, 253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.
19 Rocket and Torpedo:
Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo - a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.
20 Gardens:
Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Tips to Improve Self Confidence
Here are some quick tips to improve your Self Confidence. If we are committed to have a healthy self confidence there are many things you can do every day to boost your self confidence, each small steps that will help you to reach your goal. The good news is that self-esteem is not fixed and can be improved, try some of the steps below to boost your confidence and self-esteem.
1) Identify your successes. Everyone is good at something, so discover the things at which you excel, then focus on your talents. Give yourself permission to take pride in them. Give yourself credit for your successes. Inferiority is a state of mind in which you've declared yourself a victim. Do not allow yourself to be victimized.
2) Look in the mirror and smile. Studies surrounding what's called the "facial feedback theory" suggest that the expressions on your face can actually encourage your brain to register certain emotions. So by looking in the mirror and smiling every day, you might feel happier with yourself and more confident in the long run.
3) Exercise and eat healthy. Exercise raises adrenaline and makes one feel happier and healthier. It is certainly an easy and effective way to boost your self-confidence.
4) Turn feelings of envy or jealousy into a desire to achieve. Stop wanting what others have just because they have it; seek things simply because you want them, whether anybody else has them or not.
5) When you're feeling superbly insecure, write down a list of things that are good about you. Then read the list back. You'd be surprised at what you can come up with.
6) Don't be afraid to push yourself a bit - a little bit of pressure can actually show just how good you are!
7) You can try taking a martial arts or fitness class/course (or both). This will help build confidence and strength.
Invest in some new clothing and donate some of your old clothing to send a message to yourself that you both look sharp and feel sharp.
9) Try to make yourself talk positively at all times. When you hear yourself saying you can't do something, stop and say you can. Unless you try, you will never know whether you are able to or not.
10) Don't get wrapped up in your mistakes and dwell on bad points; they can contrast your good points or even give you something to improve. There's no feeling like being good at something you were really bad at.
11) Don't confuse what you have with who you are. People degrade their self worth when comparing possessions.
12) Surround yourself with nurturing friends, not overly critical individuals who make you feel inadequate or insecure. This could do great harm and damage to your self confidence.
Always remember "There is hair line crack between success and failure" Be sure to push your self a bit, who knows that bit may lead you to success
1) Identify your successes. Everyone is good at something, so discover the things at which you excel, then focus on your talents. Give yourself permission to take pride in them. Give yourself credit for your successes. Inferiority is a state of mind in which you've declared yourself a victim. Do not allow yourself to be victimized.
2) Look in the mirror and smile. Studies surrounding what's called the "facial feedback theory" suggest that the expressions on your face can actually encourage your brain to register certain emotions. So by looking in the mirror and smiling every day, you might feel happier with yourself and more confident in the long run.
3) Exercise and eat healthy. Exercise raises adrenaline and makes one feel happier and healthier. It is certainly an easy and effective way to boost your self-confidence.
4) Turn feelings of envy or jealousy into a desire to achieve. Stop wanting what others have just because they have it; seek things simply because you want them, whether anybody else has them or not.
5) When you're feeling superbly insecure, write down a list of things that are good about you. Then read the list back. You'd be surprised at what you can come up with.
6) Don't be afraid to push yourself a bit - a little bit of pressure can actually show just how good you are!
7) You can try taking a martial arts or fitness class/course (or both). This will help build confidence and strength.
Invest in some new clothing and donate some of your old clothing to send a message to yourself that you both look sharp and feel sharp.
9) Try to make yourself talk positively at all times. When you hear yourself saying you can't do something, stop and say you can. Unless you try, you will never know whether you are able to or not.
10) Don't get wrapped up in your mistakes and dwell on bad points; they can contrast your good points or even give you something to improve. There's no feeling like being good at something you were really bad at.
11) Don't confuse what you have with who you are. People degrade their self worth when comparing possessions.
12) Surround yourself with nurturing friends, not overly critical individuals who make you feel inadequate or insecure. This could do great harm and damage to your self confidence.
Always remember "There is hair line crack between success and failure" Be sure to push your self a bit, who knows that bit may lead you to success
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Sugar disaster in Pakistan
One of the rotten eggs from Islamic Republic of Pakistan's corrupted political structure has informed the nation that sugar is a luxurious item. People of Islamic state should treat it as an expensive item. Though we are agriculture country but this item is only for rotten eggs and their leader.
Sugar is extracted from sugar cane in sugar mills. We have 796096 square kilometer of land in Islamic Republic of Pakistan and approximately we are 17 crore people as a nation.
Currently no gas, no electricity and no water is available for citizens of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This government has completed its 3 years and if they complete full 5 years of rule it will be Pakistan's first government to complete this tenure.
Our dilemma is the army rule which is more than half of our country's independence tenure. Beurocrates, politicians and ruling parties have looted pakistan so badly. Our trains are being dumped and in the actual scenario there is a huge queue of people for getting tickets to move on trains. This government is flopped in fulfilling the promises and putting nation towards prosperity. The current year is most critical as the next year would be useless in developments.
May Allah save Pakistan. Amen!
Sugar is extracted from sugar cane in sugar mills. We have 796096 square kilometer of land in Islamic Republic of Pakistan and approximately we are 17 crore people as a nation.
Currently no gas, no electricity and no water is available for citizens of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This government has completed its 3 years and if they complete full 5 years of rule it will be Pakistan's first government to complete this tenure.
Our dilemma is the army rule which is more than half of our country's independence tenure. Beurocrates, politicians and ruling parties have looted pakistan so badly. Our trains are being dumped and in the actual scenario there is a huge queue of people for getting tickets to move on trains. This government is flopped in fulfilling the promises and putting nation towards prosperity. The current year is most critical as the next year would be useless in developments.
May Allah save Pakistan. Amen!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
TV Talk shows or Village Cock Fights
He points out such incidents and acts of one party and ask the opinion of other party and later he changes his position of attack and joins the attacked party. Sooner the talk show becomes a field of battle. Then after getting benefit of today's rotten ministers, high profile people and celebrities anger and some filthy comments, the video of specific quote is repeated multiple times on different events.
This is done to create a massive panic and anger between parties and then the situation of such talk show is propagated through media everywhere. People discuss the comments said by those famous people or about the hot issue. Thus it becomes hot favorite issue of the time. Usually the host grips the situation and attacks both parties taking one's side and then changes his point of view. This whole scenario make the guests out of control and in anger they utter such quotes and statements that it becomes difficult for them to handle for the next session. This is what the media is selling through these talk shows. The hosts are highly paid for their evil doing. No doubt they raise a genuine issue but the outcome is zero becuase the reason for such talk shows is to pull out the anger within a famous personality and then it is sold by propagating all over.
Interrupting one while he is giving his point of view is very very common. They they say "sorry for interruption" and usually it has been watched every time that at a time two or more people are talking loudly or even shouting to the extent that one can't understand what everybody is talking about. This is our educated media and famous personalities. Where did they study, which families they belong to, what is their knowledge about their religion, who is their role model. This situation is pathetic.
The ministers and political structure is all illiterate and patience less and these talk shows take benefit of their shortcoming by propagating their anger shots again and again to earn huge amount of money and publicity. The most successful host is that who gets most filthy statements uttered by one of the parties. Thus the show is successful and the over all image of Islamic Republic of Pakistan is drowned in depths of filth.
One can easily judge the moral of such people who are at high positions and he can make himself sure about the standard of normal citizens of Pakistan. These talk shows are blurring the good image of our nation. No doubt the corruption is on the boom in Pakistan because the political leadership is in hands of most corrupt people of the nation. Who only gather money and run away then ask forgiveness and give lame excuses.
We are also witness of humiliation of such famous faces by media as they are producing cartoons and fun making parodies of them. This is highly condemnable act of media. Usually the victims are politicians and even Prime Minister and President.
We have no dignity and respect for corrupt politicians and leaders but the designation of Prime Minister and President are the most supreme positions for any republic state. If they are not criticizing the the Prime Minister or the President but the men who are sitting on such positions then the media is becoming personal. And they have no right to attack a person personally. There are always many ways to point out when one gets disagree. On these positions we had good people as well in past and being optimistic the upcoming will be good and pious infact true leaders not the politicians. So we must give respect to these positions and point out only the evil deeds and corruption of such people by not humiliating them but only by pin pointing the particular issue.
Few talk shows are on air that shows the problems and mishaps of families. The divorce cases, affairs, property issues and other usual every home matters. They disclose the privacy of the victim families, host take side of one party usually the one who brought the other party in show and then attacks the other. I have watched Machis on Hum Tv and one more talk show in which the set is designed as court and the case is presented infront of the host as so called judge. These are highly humiliating and worst..... continued
Monday, October 4, 2010
WAPDA evolving into OCTOPUS
6 independant power plants are working in Pakistan providing us electricity by consuming our own gas and converting heat energy into electricity at greatest cost ever in history of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This has caused the weekly load shedding at CNG Pumps as well. If anyone analyze the cost per unit or per home of electricity in a month, he will find out that this poor third world country is bearing most expensive electricity in the world. Whole burden is put on the citizens of Pakistan. Mr President and political structure has nothing to do with the relief of citizens. Our president Mr. Asif Ali Zardari is American National. First class human in human races! He will do the same as previous dictator, president and current tabla player Musharraf did, just packing his luggage chartering a plane and leaving the country for another worst among all person. I believe republic state is worst than kingdom. If the emperor or king becomes corrupt he will still rule and leave the seat for his next generation. He will not collect money and run away. We have sound examples of Britain and Arab.
But republic state was a positive change if people could have utilized it for a nation.
Unfortunately a politician thinks for 5 years and a leader thinks for next generation. It is a huge difference between them. We need a righteous leader who could implement justice and justice will implement peace. Otherwise we will be no where but in history books, places somewhere in a dark corner of library with huge deposits of dust...
The 6 independent power plants are producing electricity at highest cost by utilizing all resources from Pakistan. This means we are purchasing electricity by our own resources at "imported" price. Previously WAPDA was increasing pain and burden on of citizens of Pakistan from all classes from lower class to upper class. But now WAPDA has evolved into an OCTOPUS having 6 more legs to suck the remaining blood of this over burdened unable to breath nation. May Allah save us from this WAPDA OCTOPUS. WAPDA was eating people and now 6 more will do the same job in competition.
PTCL did the same and he was brutally ruined by other telecom companies, I remember the demand note and line man bribery and long waiting for a single POTS based PSTN telephone at home. Now due to the competition much more have been changed in Pakistan's fixed line company. We need competitors in electricity field as well.
Our friend countries like Iran, China and Japan have offered an extremely low cost solution for end users but Mr 10% showed no interest as it was not feasible for him and his rotten ministers.
Now we are not thinking as a nation because we are not united unfortunately, we are Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochi or Pathans. Or something else neither Pakistani nor Muslims. So talking about changing the pattern of thoughts is not practical for the nation like us. We must scrolled down till depths of filth and poverty, we should have beaten till last bone fractured, we must be dragged on roads, drowned in waters but still I feel the inner of ourselves will not wake up. Because if my neighbor is in pain and I am safe then I have nothing to do with his suffering till I become victim. To wake up the inner of nation like us need blood of Martyrs (shaheed) or we see worst of our next generations (May Allah Forbid).
Please wake up... Please save your children... Please think about others... Please ensure peace in society.
Otherwise a day will come when one could have saved the prestige of his mother and sister and their lives would be a great deed... It will be difficult for us to live even to breath.
May Allah save us and our children from evil and bestow us peace. May Allah end our lives on Islam Amin!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Green Earth
Today global warming is alarming. Many of the aware people are bring attention of community and government about this serious issue. We are in state of transition. Many major changes are occurring related to environment, religious and political. Ease in life has many fantacies. One need countless luxuries, time saving options and easy way of living life.
But forgetting and ignoring a major factor which is the cost of this living style. We get energy through electricity and our living style can not survive without electricity. This electricity comes from natural resources like water, wind and coal. In Pakistan we have so many problems to face but we are not utilizing the earth and its resources in productive and beneficent way. The demand of different appliance and gadgets is increasing rapidly. The production see many challenges but fulfil the demand of end-user.
Our Earth is warming year by year and after one or two generations there will be a huge disaster and ratio will increase dramatically. The reason is global warming. We produce electricity by consuming coal energy converting heat into electric energy. It is disastrous. This production of electricity is not human friendly, neither nature friendly.
Ozone layer is being damaged, glaciers are being melt and over all earth temperature is increasing year by year. Sooner all glaciers will be melt and there will be large tsunamis and hurricanes and floods. Lesser oxygen will be available and most of the environment will be polluted. Our next generations will suffer badly. They will have to spend much more effort to reduce the global warming and to get healthy environment. The reason is we would have left no flexibility for them to survive easily. We do not learn till nature teach us lesson its way. But sometimes even still we dont learn. We prefer to follow rather to explore. We repeat methods rather deriving new dimensions. This is the time to save earth and our future generations.
We should be practical in it, we should not ignore minor daily routine practices. These are really very minor to count on but very very helpful in reducing global warming and saving nature to be disastrous for us. The glaciers are stabilizing the earth and continents if there will be no glaciers there will be no continent as well.
The common practices in our daily routine life are leaving electric appliances stand by, leaving chargers and TV on for long hours. Lighting un necessary lights. The point in mind comes here about the affordability. This is not the matter of affordability this is the matter to save our earth. Let it be green. For the survival we need to initiate some practices in our daily lives. We are hesitant to turn off lights in our schools, universities and offices. We think this is not our work. Please change your minds, ofcourse that is not your duty but by doing this you are actually saving earth and future generations. Lesser the energy consumption means lesser the coal burning, lesser the pollution in environment. More green and stable earth.
We do not go for new methods of living which are cost saving and effective until we are forced to do so. We do not utilize wind energy for wind mills to produce electricity. This wind energy and wind mill is 364/365 days available and one time cost. We can produce 80% of our power energy consumption through this maintenance free method. Our government does not focus on this cost saving and ever lasting way.
We can produce more energy through dams, We have fortunately every type of land and weather available in Pakistan. More than 90% of water coming from rains, melting ice is wasted in sea. We can utilize this resource to benefit our society.
Moreover there is huge availability of clear and hot weather in Pakistan in different areas, we can utilize energy coming from Sun. The solar systems should be installed in all industry and Government premises. This will help the environment to get free from burning gas, oil or coal to produce energy. We have huge deserted areas in Pakistan and these solar panels can produce enormous amount of energy. This is again a one time cost and it saves a lot.
Well these are the steps an individual can not take but one can turn off un necessary lights, switch off TV, chargers and other appliances while not in use. By practicing these minor things we can save more than 30% of our electricity consumption individually and if we collectively follow such principles we can save a lot.
The availability of resources and having capacity to utilize them is the gift of Allah. But it is also mentioned to be modest while living. We should avoid wasting the benefits bestowed by Allah.
Save earth for your future generations!
But forgetting and ignoring a major factor which is the cost of this living style. We get energy through electricity and our living style can not survive without electricity. This electricity comes from natural resources like water, wind and coal. In Pakistan we have so many problems to face but we are not utilizing the earth and its resources in productive and beneficent way. The demand of different appliance and gadgets is increasing rapidly. The production see many challenges but fulfil the demand of end-user.
Our Earth is warming year by year and after one or two generations there will be a huge disaster and ratio will increase dramatically. The reason is global warming. We produce electricity by consuming coal energy converting heat into electric energy. It is disastrous. This production of electricity is not human friendly, neither nature friendly.
Ozone layer is being damaged, glaciers are being melt and over all earth temperature is increasing year by year. Sooner all glaciers will be melt and there will be large tsunamis and hurricanes and floods. Lesser oxygen will be available and most of the environment will be polluted. Our next generations will suffer badly. They will have to spend much more effort to reduce the global warming and to get healthy environment. The reason is we would have left no flexibility for them to survive easily. We do not learn till nature teach us lesson its way. But sometimes even still we dont learn. We prefer to follow rather to explore. We repeat methods rather deriving new dimensions. This is the time to save earth and our future generations.
We should be practical in it, we should not ignore minor daily routine practices. These are really very minor to count on but very very helpful in reducing global warming and saving nature to be disastrous for us. The glaciers are stabilizing the earth and continents if there will be no glaciers there will be no continent as well.
The common practices in our daily routine life are leaving electric appliances stand by, leaving chargers and TV on for long hours. Lighting un necessary lights. The point in mind comes here about the affordability. This is not the matter of affordability this is the matter to save our earth. Let it be green. For the survival we need to initiate some practices in our daily lives. We are hesitant to turn off lights in our schools, universities and offices. We think this is not our work. Please change your minds, ofcourse that is not your duty but by doing this you are actually saving earth and future generations. Lesser the energy consumption means lesser the coal burning, lesser the pollution in environment. More green and stable earth.
We do not go for new methods of living which are cost saving and effective until we are forced to do so. We do not utilize wind energy for wind mills to produce electricity. This wind energy and wind mill is 364/365 days available and one time cost. We can produce 80% of our power energy consumption through this maintenance free method. Our government does not focus on this cost saving and ever lasting way.
We can produce more energy through dams, We have fortunately every type of land and weather available in Pakistan. More than 90% of water coming from rains, melting ice is wasted in sea. We can utilize this resource to benefit our society.
Moreover there is huge availability of clear and hot weather in Pakistan in different areas, we can utilize energy coming from Sun. The solar systems should be installed in all industry and Government premises. This will help the environment to get free from burning gas, oil or coal to produce energy. We have huge deserted areas in Pakistan and these solar panels can produce enormous amount of energy. This is again a one time cost and it saves a lot.
Well these are the steps an individual can not take but one can turn off un necessary lights, switch off TV, chargers and other appliances while not in use. By practicing these minor things we can save more than 30% of our electricity consumption individually and if we collectively follow such principles we can save a lot.
The availability of resources and having capacity to utilize them is the gift of Allah. But it is also mentioned to be modest while living. We should avoid wasting the benefits bestowed by Allah.
Save earth for your future generations!
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