A new fashion is on the block. Keep on harking about Global Warming. Keep on mentioning industrial growth and its effects and side effects. The question is why the very countries who started the industrial revolution are now questioning the development of the countries like China and India? Is the consumption of oil the real reason that we are talking about global warming? Or is it the transfer of energies, power and the petro dollars that is causing the Global Warming hullaboo? Is global warming an artifically created catastrophe for the benefit of some countries?
Notwithstanding the fact that it is beyond any human force to control Mother Earth, the concept of global warming is being circulated. Ofcourse that does'nt mean that humans are not the culprit. We are wasting away many of our resources which could have been saved but then we are ofcourse not gods. Every human is prone to error and he keeps it repeating the same without giving a thought to the earlier history. The fuel consumption rate in the U.S. is massive and it is here that the prices have started hurting them. The same is true for other countries but given the fact that most of them are concentrating on population development, the thought of saving fuel in the process is a far fetched dream. More so what seems hasty waste for the developed nations may cost tonnes of food causing major shortages of food and life necessary commodities for the developing countries. For e.g. controlling movement of traffic in developing countries might create shortages for the population in developing countries as the logistics support may be the only life line for this part of the world. Or for that matter a low quality grade material may prove to be a turn off for the developed nations as they prepare to apply dumping charges against such countries, which in turn may feed a few million population in the developing countries.
So whats a win-win situation? There is no such thing called a win-win situation. The developed countries want all the resources for them while the developing nations have little choice as far as utilization of these resources are concerned leading to wastages, pilferages and ultimately undermining the necessity of conservation. Have the forests disappeared only in the developing nations?? What about the Yellow Stone Park case (courtsey: Michael Crichton, "State of Fear")in the U.S. of America?
Most of the studies carried out in the form of research on global warming could have been a result of a predetermined objective. India has not faced a single famine for the past 13 years. There has been a bumper crop and the food coffers are filled to the brim so much so that India is actually in a position to support the world food economy. Now why would the world want to notice such a phenomenon? Its simple. India has stopped buying massive quantities of food from the developed nations. So what could have been a puppet in the hands of developed nations (because of their help in making India buy from them), India has been able to tide the crisis on the home front itself. All because of Global Warming.
India has been witnessing a high Industrial growth since the last 10 years. Meaning that cheaper labour combined with educated population has reversed the trend of economic mess pre 1992. Now India can actually afford to think about Global warming because it has lesser problems on its hands. More so the flow of Petro Dollars has been more towards India and China and less in the U.S. or Europe (Courtsey: Dr. Bharat Jhunjhunwala). Using this flow, China and India can actually build a better system of controlling pollution and helping environmentalists in making the countries a better place to live in.
All in all, any statement on global warming should be seen from all possible angles before we blindly start apeing the west. Moreover, Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution is not to be forgotten as can be seen from the fact that a 3rd generation of Mosquitos are causing deadly malaria and rendering the present drugs weaker against the malarial attacks. Can this analogy be not used in the case of global warming where we can see more creatures evolving themselves and rendering the effect of pollution useless? Mother Earth is so powerful that only the sufferers who have actually experienced her power can recount its power game. But this also does not undermine the fact that we also need to be careful while using the resources of Mother Earth. Otherwise... the pitfall is there to be seen but unfortunately we may not be able to avoid it all together leading to pain and trauma. So even though Global Warming may be a mirage in the making, still the fact remains that we are wasting our resources and wasting them fast. Its time we play sensibly.
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