TIGER (1900 - 2018) Humans ( 100 more years??)

Tigers Tigers little star

How i wonder what you are

Up above the walls so high

besides monalisa there u lie.

One fine day, i switched on the TV to hear the news at 9.... major TV channels featured briefings of count. Only 1411 left in INDIA. I frankly do not know how many hearts did stop hearing this news...Whatever the numbers be... its NOT million!!!! There were plenty of discussions and debates on tigers on various channels... sometimes i feel... we are good at debating.. we talk a lot... we express excellent ideas..views...rules...pinpoint the problem.. but y does it all boil down to "YOU DO IT" attitude... We do wake up when there is a crisis... thank god.. our FM did announce some relief... well better late than never..

After few years, there will only be 1 tiger left: Tiger Pataudi... we love tiger brand... tiger biscuit,tiger balm, tiger this...tiger that....but what's the point??? i feel govt(if we all see as the last institution of hope) has to introduce a bill which asks royalty for using tiger as a brand... Hmmm... what's wrong???

Well, given few more years to live, tigers will only be found in cages. As is the fate of White tigers. I dedicate this article to the majestic, wild, solitary cats; in the hope that some one in some corner of the world, somewhere in time would find out that the author did live along in tiger times. Valmik thaper did give the time frame of 5 more years under the present trend... but i am little bit more optimistic...( with due respect to the tiger icon).. and give 10 more years in wild. 5 or 10... doesn't matter... what's left is meager amount... a rupee coin in millionaire's hand... What a shame!!!... Shame on us!!! .....Balinese and javan tigers are extinct.. many species of animals are being extinct.. the last wild white tiger was shot in 1958... search "tiger"...find out more...

one of my friend says "All human wisdom is summed up in 3 words wait and hope". So let's wait and hope.

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Hope that even humans take little bit more time to get extinct. Sounds interesting?? or cruel?? whatever... it is time that we see the light at least at the end...

Let's concentrate on the article below ( with due credit to the author:ronald bailey):

'Sustainability of Demographic Progress Around the World'

".. total fertility rates (TFRs) are plummeting around the world. Population stability is achieved when each woman bears an average of 2.1 kids over the course of her lifetime—one for her, one for her male partner, and a little overage to make up to childhood deaths. Today, there are sixty countries in which TFRs are below 2.1. For example, the European Union's TFR is 1.5 and no EU member state has a TFR at replacement or above. Even high population developing countries have seen steep declines in fertility. Since 1970, China's TFR fell from 5.8 to 1.6; India's from 5.8 to 2.9; Indonesia from 5.6 to 2.4; Japan's from 2.0 to 1.3; Mexico's from 6.8 to 2.4; Brazil's from 5.4 to 2.3; and South Africa's from 5.9 to 2.7. The U.S. TFR dropped from 2.55 in 1970 to around 2.1 today, largely because of the influx of higher fertility immigrants. However, the fertility of second generation Americans drops to the level of longer established Americans.."

Even though only one variable is presented TFR there are 7 other variables which determines the population increase/decrease.. If someone does math on it.. well he can give exact number of years for human existence... truth is bitter but its truth... we may not be there till then but whoever is ...IS HUMAN.... call it demographic winter.. or population plummet... its only a matter of time...

Well... that's it.

Gattz


PS: for more info please do a search on the above topic and read the article by David A Plane.