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HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 12 Lesson 5 Greater Common Good Greater Common Good According to a detailed study of the 54 Large Dams done by the Indian Institute of Public Administration, the average number of people displaced by a Large Dam is 44,182. Admittedly, 54 dams out of 3,300 is not a big enough sample. But since it's all we have, let's try and do some rough arithmetic. A first draft. To err on the side of caution, let's halve the number of people. Or, let's err on the side of abundant caution and take an average of just 10,000 people per Large Dam. It's an improbably low figure, I know, but... never mind. Whip out your calculators. 3,300 x 10,000 = 33 million. That's what it works out to. Thirty-three million people. Displaced by big dams alone in the last fifty years. What about those that have been displaced by the thousands of other Development Projects? At a private lecture, N. C. Saxena, Secretary to the Planning Commission, sa...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 12 Lesson 5 Scientific Method Limits of the Scientific Method  Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create. Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life.   In applying my theories to farming. I have been experimenting in growing my crops in various ways, always with the idea of developing a method close to nature. I have done this by whittling away unnecessary agricultural practices.   Modern scientific agriculture, on the other hand has no such vision. Research wanders about aimlessly, each researcher seeing just one part of the infinite array of natural factors which affect harvest yields.   Furthermore, these natural factors change from place to place and from year to year.  Even though it is the same quarter acre, the farmer mus...

HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 12 Lesson 3 Environmental Justice Environmental Justice What is Environmental Justice 1. When an explosion in the Union Carbide Chemical Plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands of people on the night of December 2, 1984, it was regarded as a terrible but singular disaster. When a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine in the former Soviet Union exploded just two years later killing an undisclosed number of workers, it was regarded as a terrible but singular disaster. So too when the world learned of the ecological and human cost of decades of petroleum-waste dumping in the Niger Delta by Royal Dutch Shell in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the attempt to privatize water in Bolivia by the Bechtel Corporation in the 1990s, the death of close to two thousand people in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, or even the horrific aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki six decades ea...

 HSC English First Paper English For Today - Unit 12 Lesson 3 Endangered Species Endangered Species Yuval Noah Harart's Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World. One example of modern gatherers is the Nayaka people, who live in the jungles of southern India When a Nayaka comes across a dangerous animal such as a tiger, snake or elephant in the jungle the Nayaka might talk directly to the animal: "You live in the forest, and I live in the forest too. You came here to eat, and I came here to gather roots and tubers. I didn't come to hurt you, so please  don't hurt me."   A Nayaka was once killed by a male elephant they called 'the elephant who always walks alone People from the Indian government then came to capture the elephant, but the Nayaka refused to help the government officials. They explained that the elephant had a good reason to be violent: he used to have a very close friend, another male elephant, and the two always roamed the forest together. ...