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links to modern trends, especially related to social media trends and groups overview of the experiments (focusing mainly on one set of findings)ĥ. Then on to comments about how I see the mice and rat findings relating to current social trends, which play out in the most obvious fashion in social media use patterns and social groups.ġ. I'll pass on a short summary of what I see as the overview, then cite a summary I ran across that offers a somewhat abbreviated and highly interpreted version, then comments on what doesn't seem right in that. There's a lot to get through, and I have a number of comments on how I see it potentially relating to what we experience today, so I'll need to keep this moving. I've just ran across a really interesting summary of some social structure oriented experiments on mice by a researcher in the late 60s through the 70s, John Calhoun's rat and mice experiments related to the effects of overpopulation. This worrying situation should concern everyone and steps should be taken to remedy such crises.This is the third post in a row branching off the subject of tea, which I will get back to. At present, 30 per cent land is subject to floods and 60 per cent land is under drought. Dr Rajendra Singh spoke about how ‘we have the technology of extraction but we don’t have the technology of nourishment.’ He gave other statistics to support his assertion of water mismanagement bringing to light that when India became independent, only 1 per cent land was under drought and 0.5 per cent was subject to floods. 72 per cent of India faces high to extremely high water-stress. Nowhere on earth are groundwater declines greater than that in Northern India. Groundwater reserves are also being depleted. Encroachment on common property is rampant in India especially the polluting of rivers which leads to decrease in pure, drinking water. Gross mismanagement of water resources has led to the current state of water scarcity across 365 districts in 17 states, and floods in 190 districts. To join this initiative in any capacity, please get in touch with #SriM #C20 #G20 #sriminspires #riverrevival #AviralGodavari #TheSatsangFoundation #waterconservation #C20India #G20Indiaĭr Rajendra Singh (the ‘Waterman of India’) spoke at the C20 water conclave organised recently by TSF where he addressed how India is facing one of its biggest water crises today. The participation of locals will be sought in tree plantation and grass will be grown to hold the soil. In the water storage area, trees will be planted to slow down the force of water and evaporation. Ground water recharging will be done through the vertical fractures in the upper portion of the Brahmagiri mountain. Maintenance and repairs of the existing check dams and the construction of new check dams has started, using locally available materials. To solve these problems, nature-friendly spot treatment using traditional Indian knowledge and technology will be applied, with community participation.

The area is also becoming barren with the soil getting washed away. As a result, the Godavari does not have a continuous, clean flow all through the year. Universe 25: The Mouse "Utopia" Experiment That Turned Into An Apocalypseĭuring the rains, in the absence of trees, water flows very fast from the upper portion of the Brahmagiri mountain at Trimbakeshwar, and not much of it is held in the ground. Utopia could be just the poison you need to avoid. Invest in the journey that takes paths unknown, fail because you're trying a new thing you've never done before. Work with what you have, because that is the nature of life itself. To avoid strife within our own mind which manifests as strife within society, maybe we do need to struggle individually in the physical/material realm, and with each struggle find a sense of achievement, of movement, of winning.or even losing but not for the lack of trying.ĭon't look for the perfect world, the perfect conditions, or the state where you have everything. Perhaps struggle is what gives meaning to life, like the fire that purifies base ore into precious metals or the cut and polish which transform rough stones into gems. You may read about this study and may come back saying, "Yes, but we're different, we're not mice." This decades-old scientific study is always a good reminder, in which scientists provided healthy mice with all that they needed, only to watch that mouse society flourish but eventually fall, not due to external struggles (of which there were none!), but due to strife that was entirely internally generated within the society. What happens when you get the perfect world? What would we do if we got to Utopia and had absolutely everything that we wanted and even all that we didn't know we wanted?