Exactly eighty years ago, the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called “Chains” in which he suggested that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. His theory was called The Six Degrees Of Separation.
In plain English, this means that there are only six degrees of separation between you and Mr. Ratan Tata. That’s right, the one person who can call for an immediate halt to the destructive port in Orissa, and protect the endangered Olive Ridley Turtles. Greenpeace and thousands of our supporters and cyberactivsts (most of us Tata customers) have been trying to reach him for weeks, but someone at his office doesn’t want us to speak directly with him.
That’s exactly where you can help. Someone you know has Mr. Tata’s cellphone number. Fire up your networks, go through your phonebook, speak to your aunt… because the truth is out there. All that separates you from it is six degrees.
Email us when you’ve found it. And power to the P2P!
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Best way to someone usually is through their head of marketing.
They spend their lives working to build up a company’s image - if you want to them go there - if all else fails on the 6 degrees : )
PROFIT or LIFE, i think the answer is obvious to one who is not blinded by greed.
TATA = cancer of the earth
Mr. Tata, ignorant of history, enemy of the planet, chipping away at the health of mother earth.
I hope he will be haunted on his death bed…
he’s a devil wearing a mask. let jlr , corus and the tata go bankrupt ! cursing wont take us anywhere, but couldn’t stop myself. lol
I have a colleague whose girlfriend knows someone who is Ratan’s face-reader.
Could I get him to get her to get her to face-read his cell number?
Could I get him to get her to get her to face-read him and prophesy that there’s no port in his future?
Could I get him to get her to get her to face-read him and prophesy that there’s no future in his port?
Hmmmmm….
Oh, btw, WTF! This is four degrees of separation! I want my money back!
Why ? The wildlife hasn’t been much respected anyway and he’s making it worse…
Just for your profits will you sacrifice thousands of innocent turtles…?
There is something called “humanity” … Look into it .
How would you feel if some big company just took your home away because they wanted to build their Office or whatever there for their profits ? Life means so much more than profits . We are so fortunate to be able to support so many life forms on a single planet (If that means anything to you i.e.) .
Don’t stop the plan of creating this car just relocate the centers .
Think
Peace .
please respect all living forms and ceatures. We all have the right to live, exist and continue. You are responsible of your own karma.
if you really care about environment..then just got and stop iraq and afganistan war,wher they are not only destroying turtles…but the humanity.You biased greenpeace.First make youself clean.
Its not like Tata is not knowing about this. He doesn’t want to know about this! He is ignoring us! Can’t legal action or a PIL be filed in the court?
Haven’t we been without cars previosuly??????? Is it mandatory to have such a cheap car at the cost of some life ?????
Read this article from the Times of India….
Below belt? Green group uses Nano to hit Tata on Orissa turtles
6 Apr 2009, 0018 hrs IST, Amit Bhattacharya, TNN
NEW DELHI: When Tatas finally launched the Nano late last month, something else
went piggyback riding on the wave of global attention the car
was getting. On March
23, the day of the launch, full-page ads appeared in two international papers with a prominent picture of the ‘cheap’ car. The ad had nothing to do with Nano - it was a high profile attempt by NGO Greenpeace to get international attention to bear on Olive Ridley turtles.
The motive of Greenpeace was obvious: to pressure Tata Group chairman, Ratan Tata, into stopping work at the Dhamra Port coming up in Orissa, about 25km from Gahirmatha, one of the two mass nesting sites of the Olive Ridleys on the state’s coastline.
It was one of the costliest campaigns yet mounted to ‘save’ the turtles, claiming the port was threatening to take the Olive Ridleys closer to extinction. It raised the alarm - ever since dredging activity began two years ago to clear the approach to the port, the turtles hadn’t come for mass nesting at Gahirmatha.
In a dramatic twist, even as the ad appeared in Financial Times and International Herald Tribune, tens of thousands of female turtles made their way to Gahirmatha beach for nesting. According to Siddhanta Das, conservator of forests, Bhubaneswar circle, the mass nesting at Gahirmatha started on March 21 and continued till March 24. In these four days, around 1.7 lakh turtles had nested at the site, Das said.
“The advertisement was in bad taste inasmuch as it carried wrong information,” said Santosh K Mohapatra, CEO of Dhamra Port Company Limited, a 50:50 joint venture of Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro. Greenpeace changed its tack - it claimed the nesting did not mean that the turtles were any less threatened.
Not surprisingly, Greenpeace’s campaign has again triggered the debate on whether extreme positions such as these should be invoked when there’s little evidence to support it. In the case of the Olive Ridleys, such positioning by a section of conservationists goes back over 30 years.
As turtle expert Kartik Shanker, assistant professor at IISc, Bangalore, puts it: “In 1978, T A Davis and Rajesh Bedi wrote about the imminent extinction of Olive Ridleys in Orissa. Jack Frazier (pioneering American turtle specialist) wrote then of the dangers of crying wolf. He was right; the Ridleys did not go extinct. Of course, some drastic conservation actions were required in the early 1980s. More recently, another scientist, Nicholas Mrosovsky, wrote of the dangers of hype.”
Shanker argues that invoking the threat of extinction takes the focus away from long-term conservation strategies which would be more helpful in preserving the species.
Most conservationists fear that the upcoming port could adversely affect the Olive Ridley turtles and their nesting areas. At the other end of the divide, pro-development proponents argue that the port will bring much-needed development to a backward region.
On their part, Tata and DPCL say they are sensitive to the ecological importance of the area. “We have not only done our due diligence, we have engaged reputed institutions to constantly monitor the impact of construction and dredging in addition to taking scientific advice from the International Union for Conservation of Nature during the construction. IUCN is also preparing a comprehensive environment management plan for the operation phase,” Mohapatra said.
Some green groups allege that IUCN, a respected international organization, is being used by DPCL to “greenwash” the port project. Ashish Fernandes of Greenpeace, who is heading the NGO’s Dhamra campaign, said, “IUCN’s role is limited to mitigation. We demand that work at the port stop and an independent group of scientists study the issue.”
When talks between DPCL and green groups broke down in February, both sides had agreed on the independent study. DPCL said it was ready to stop work for certain periods if the scientists required it. The environmentalists insisted on complete stoppage of work. “There’s no point in getting an independent study commissioned on our own, as this too will be contested,” says Mohapatra.
With the current level of trust deficit between the two sides, what’s fast disappearing is a middle ground which could possibly have accommodated the interests of all, including the turtles.
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Green Peace has been extremely unfair here and used “a big man” as a punching bag to get publicity.
If they have enough proof…they should try going to the court because Indian courts are quite proactive with environment issues. The fact that they choose to fight it in this way shows that they don’t have enough proof.
Posted by radhika | 12-04-2009 18:04
What has nano got to do with the turtles btw?Why is greenpeace using the nano to publicise their so called turtle campaign?sn’t this a form of misinformation.Are they not misleading people?
I agree !!!!
PROFIT or LIFE, i think the answer is obvious to one who is not blinded by greed
I AGREE
PROFIT or LIFE, i think the answer is obvious to one who is not blinded by greed
im 3 degrees of seperation away from knowing taylor launter!!