Development: August 2004 Archives

Hungry World 'must eat less meat'

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By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent

Livestock needs a lot of water
World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable.

Nuclear Revolution

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by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

A society may be described as the collection of numerous parallel psychic waves which originate due to the psychic tendency of moving together in unison. The glory of human society lies in the formation of a universal collective structure inspired by exalted ideas.

CONTAI BASIN PLANNING

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by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

The Contai Basin is the area between the Rasulpor and Suvarnareka Rivers where they are about to merge in the Bay of Bengal. The Bengali name of Contai is Ka'nthi derived from the Sanskrit word kanthika'. The British changed Ka'nthi to Contai because to them Ka'nthi sounded similar to Kandi in Murshidabad district and Kanthi in Midnapore district.

Bamboo Futures

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India recently set up a National Mission on Bamboo Technology at an outlay of Rs 2,600 crores in acknowledgement of bamboo's potential to broad-spread prosperity. India's 7 north-eastern states' relative isolation and non-industrialised condition, make them ideal for spear heading a bamboo centred economy.

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