Chocolates may go extinct!- What do I do? (biting nails)

How to get guys to care about global warming? Threaten their beer. How to get women to care? Start talking about chocolate going extinct. (That’s not sexist, is it?)

The Nature Conservation Resource Council (NCRC) recently announced that within 20 years, chocolate may become extinct! This is because of the unsustainable farming practices.

Whereas chocolate, in its native state, grows in rainforest conditions with high biodiversity, it’s now farmed by clearing the forest and using hybrid seeds to produce higher output in a shorter amount of time. This leads to soil erosion and a shorter lifespan for the cacao trees, which will eventually lead to an overall shortage of cacao.

While many a chocoholic may lament this news, I wish to provide our readers with a little firsthand “reality check.” Most of the world’s cacao is grown in West Africa. While living in Ghana during my study-abroad year as an undergraduate, I was struck by the fact that, even though Ghana is a net exporter of cacao, most of the country’s inhabitants could not afford to purchase a Cadbury or Hershey’s bar. Although I shared many a fresh, delicious cacao fruit with my Ghanaian friends, actually eating a chocolate bar was considered a luxury.
For Ghanaians, “no chocolate 20 years from now” is now. Such reminders are necessary to place in perspective predictions of ecological change and impacts on human populations. While we, in wealthy, industrialized countries, may fear with trepidation the loss of resources and biodiversity associated with global warming, it is important to remember that half the world’s peoples are already living that reality.

Start breaking your dependence now, people. I know I’ll have to. But a world without chocolate sounds like a sad, sad place. What will we put in s’mores?

-An excerpt from the internet.

Sovereignty! Happy Republic Day!

Someone in my social networks group asked me today: Is India a Sovereign nation?
I ventured to make some online research to answer technically. This is what I found in Wikipedia:

“	There exists perhaps no conception the meaning of which is more controversial than that of sovereignty. It is an indisputable fact that this conception, from the moment when it was introduced into political science until the present day, has never had a meaning which was universally agreed upon.	”
	— Lassa Oppenheim, an authority on international law

(Biting Nails! Confused)
Anyways, Jai Bharat, Jai Karnataka.

Being You! Being Me!

 Definitions: (source: not wikipedia, not oxford, not brittanica, not encyclopedia)

Artist: Not knowing what will emerge out yet letting the art emerge all by itself, without trying to actually pursue an idea! And finally stay with this!

Entrepreneur:

Doesn't work for anybody but himself; 

When he feels he's absolutely right, the world disproves him 6 billion times (that's one for each human on earth... and counting 6Bil and 1, 2, 3...);

When he knows that his idea is absolutely sucky, an investor calls him and says, "I am interested in your project!" (of course, the funding doesn't happen finally); 

When he thinks that he's wasted his time on this holy earth, someone praises him and when he's busy, the world curses him for wasting time; 

Follows a dream like a loony;

Follows the investor as a loony;

Realizes the world is a loon house;

Understands the world was normal and he was the loon;

Further understands that if he was a loon and the world was his house, wouldn't that be a loon house;

Forces himself to understand that he is not a loon and the world is a beautiful place;

Investor calls- No time to think of the loony stuff!

OMG!

Bye.. Gotto go.... someone is calling- may be an investor!

No... really, bye!