As global torch bearers meet in Paris today, they carry with
them aspirations and hopes of 7+ billion people. Whilst COP 21 will find a
place as a landmark event in modern history, it need not necessarily present a
DoD (Do or Die) scenario.
Change is inevitable. It is the only constant in an
increasingly complex world. Any action that will aid slowdown of the rate of
change will give us more time to rehearse adaptive living. Slower the change,
the softer it would be. (Pl see my noting in an earlier occasion on the faster
changes in the past and their contribution to the present situation). Had we
been slow then, there would be less to worry now.
There is a latent danger of disagreement due to wrong
measuring scale carried by the torch bearers. The world, in the past too had
found itself entangled when values, growth rights and commitments get debated.
Human tendency to appropriate and valorize resources has led
us to the present predicament. Not far from today, the oil era will sublimate.
Water is a strong replacement candidate. If physical might to wage wars and
redraw borders was the strategy of the in the 20th century, the
approach now is fiscal might. Underlying motto - Ends justifying means remain unchanged.
#changetheyardstick
