Threats to world
stability, peace, prosperity and progress are due to Nuclear
Proliferation, stock piling of weapons of mass destruction, improper
security arrangements or improper building construction of Nuclear
Power Stations for the production of electric power, further, air,
water and sound pollutions due to increased industries, factories
and vehicles emitting greenhouse gases and also provocation and
perpetration of religious terrorism. Further, deforestation for the
expansion of the industrially developed town exploiting natural
resources for energy, raw materials and food has created the
situation for long droughts, sudden floods, unseasonal rains,
destabilization of ecological system and changes in Nature.
Scientific and
technological developments in the modern world in the name of
civilization have deteriorated cultural values, degrading artistic
values and works of mankind and the existence of human world would
not be possible. So, all kinds of materialistic developments,
modernization and enhancement of standard in all walks of life are
necessary but not at the expense of human values and human culture
in the world. Hence, technological surprises, political ambition and
religious fanaticism should not make man mad but help him promote
international brotherhood, love and peace for everyone to enjoy joy
and pleasure in the beautiful and beneficial creations of the world
better than before but not worse than as at present.
Danger of Nuclear Weapons
The dangers of Nuclear Weapons capable of mass destruction in some
nations are threatening the peace and stability of the world
forever. So, peace talks, normalization of relations among nations,
disarmaments and promotion of world unity are the compulsion of the
time so that another world war can be avoided and unimaginable
destruction to the world much more bigger than the devastations
caused by the wars of the world so far can be wisely stopped in time
for the well being of the world. After the cold war it seems the
Super Powers have stopped stock pilling of Nuclear Weapons. But
after them, the second line nations that are technologically
developed or developing such as China, India, Israel, North Korea
and Pakistan have entered into arms race for their own individual
reasons.
So, America came forward to stop the arms race by making such
nations sign the treaties such as Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As these treaties look to be
discriminatory in nature, India refused to sign them. Therefore to
overcome the danger of Nuclear Weapons, the only way left is the
Nuclear Power nations should be persuaded by the UNO and the
international community to destroy weapons of mass destruction by
themselves or dismantle the nuclear weapons and use the nuclear
fuels for useful purposes like the development of nuclear power
plant for the generation of electricity utilizing nuclear chemicals
from the weapons and so on.
Terrorism
There is no boundary for terrorism in the world. That too Islamic
terrorism goes cutting across the globe. This type of international
terrorism is the real threat to peace and security of the civilized
nations of the world needing to be curbed by the joint efforts of
all the nations. Including the communist countries, the world
nations are giving top priority to the elimination of international
terrorism, which has become much more dangerous than communist
infiltration in the world.
In the course of the medieval period, when Islam was spreading in
North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Southern Europe and South
Asia, Arab traders and rulers adopted Jihad or holy war for eight
months in every year against other religious people, confiscated
their properties, distributed them among poor Muslim people and
converted them to Islam religion by force. But now that type of
medieval religion, which was supposed to have developed to Sufism in
spite of sectarian feudal fights between Sunnis and Shias, has been
hijacked by terrorism, degrading divine spirit as well as human
spirit to animal spirit, cannot stand before the noble wrath of
modern civilization and the world religions as well, which have
developed to mysticism or devotional stage up lifting human spirit
to divine spirit.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center of USA,
the unanimous decision to weed out terrorists and their supporters
giving asylum for hideouts with monetary aids, is being implemented
and still more vigorous and hot pursuits would continue to put a
permanent end to international terrorism though it manifests itself
in any form and name in the world. In this respect Russia has done a
wonderful job so far and stands as an example to others.
Next, China is positively cautious to deal with this problem in
cooperation with other nations of the world. But Pakistan, calling
itself to be one of the members of the international coalition
against terrorism, is supporting cross border terrorism and
terrorist infiltration in Kashmir under the pretext that terrorism
in Kashmir is freedom struggle, though Kashmir is the integral part
of and cannot be extricated from India after 60 years of
independence.
India, which is successfully facing terrorism for the past 20 years
has at last made the international community realize the intensity
and formidable nature of terrorist menaces perpetrated in Kashmir
under the aegis of Pakistan, whose intention of wresting it from
India has never been successful. So, without the international
pressure over the adamant, hostile and unstable nations,
international terrorism cannot be rooted out once and for all.
Hence, unanimous hot pursuits have to be carried out against
terrorist nations so that peace and prosperity may get another
chance for their survival in order to make this world a better place
to live and as one human world at least in the future.
Protection of Nuclear Power
Stations
In the present unpredictable situation, it has become a big problem
to protect Nuclear Power Stations in many nations of the world as
most of the nations are opting for nuclear energy to produce
electric power needed for domestic and industrial purposes. So, the
probable threats to the safety of nuclear power plants lie in the
materials used in the construction of the buildings, the danger
signaling devices in the machines or the inbuilt auto precautionary
measures adapting system in the plant and the 24 hour security
guards for the protection of the plant in and around the compound,
if any damage is caused anywhere in the plant by the sabotage
activities of the terrorists, blast or leakage of nuclear materials,
and would lead to radiation hazards to the surrounding areas causing
diseases and deaths to lives of all forms by pollution in the
atmosphere due to nuclear radiation. Therefore the best course of
action to overcome this dangerous situation would be to change over
to other sources of energy available in Nature such as solar power,
wind power and water power for the generation of electricity used in
the appliances of everyday use in various projects and for the
consumption of domestic and commercial purposes.
Pollution Problem
Pollution, which is day-to-day problem, if unchecked, uncontrolled
and unsolved by the efforts of all the nations, will be a big threat
to the very existence of the Earth one day. Air pollution, water
pollution, land pollution and sound pollution are the problems faced
by almost all countries in the world today. Because of pollution of
all forms global warming, droughts, floods, cyclones and all changes
in nature have become common things through out the globe. In spite
of all these unavoidable incidences or natural calamities, polluting
activities are unabatedly carried out by industrially developed
nations. To solve the global pollution problem, Kyoto protocol was
drafted after having detailed discussions by the countries of the
European Union; but it was ignored by USA due to the fact that the
implementation of the protocol would be economically a big loss to
it. Likewise even today many nations cannot make commitments by
signing the protocol due to the same reason i.e. economic loss to
them.
Due to these reasons there is nothing that can stop the greenhouse
gases or carbon gases emitted by technologically developed project
works and transportation of various vehicles creating holes in the
atmosphere that are very easily allowing sun’s ultraviolet rays
affecting human beings with skin diseases, eye diseases, etc. Also,
as the untreated toxic or chemical effluents coming out of the
industries are mixing with the rivers, lakes and seas, many
biological species are extinct and the tragedy to rare species are
still continuing unchecked in various parts of the world. Further,
due to sound pollution caused by the noise of the vehicles and horns
and uncleanness due to accumulation of rubbish in many cities of the
developing countries, people are ever suffering from some kind of
diseases and health problems, a common thing everywhere. So, unless
pollution problem is solved by the joint cooperation of all the
nations time will come, when nobody can even breathe clean air in
the world!
May 5, 2007
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