Space Debris

Link to news on Times of India

Mankind is at it again. And the cycle is repeating itself on a bigger scale than anyone to see it. Maybe no one is left by that time to experience the bigger calamity. Recently I have seen an animated movie Wall-e, where everyone leaves the planet earth and go on to reside on some spaceship. Why is it that always the developed nations start it and then when the time comes it puts the blame on developing and emerging economies for not doing much about the issue?

 

Recently two space satellites (Russian and Iridium communications) collided with each other and debris, which is into million pieces now, will continue to orbit the earth. This is the first major collision of its kind, whereas the four other "minor" ones have already happened. And after this event itself it has become difficult for space shuttles to venture out of Earth's proximity.

 

As of Wednesday, there were 9,831 pieces of manmade debris - not counting anything from Tuesday's collision -orbiting Earth. The items, at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) in size, are being tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network, which is operated by the military. The network detected the two debris clouds created Tuesday.

 

Can you believe this!! Who should be held responsible for this? We can draw analogous to a similar situation, in front of us, which is regarding depletion of ozone layer and global warming. Up till now Kyoto protocol has been agreed upon. Reason: differences between developing and developed economies and who is paying for all this – all the third world countries.  All the carbon trading mumbo jumbo is farce and an act to mislead the entire world. Who is seeing what an environment polluting organization is doing in Africa about compensating for its act.