The Dynamics of Climate Change

The power politics of today’s uni-polar world is gradually taking a shift due to an alarming issue of Global Warming & Climate Change. The world so far had never realized such situation will knock us in such spontaneous manner. A decade ago this matter was not the primary concern of many developed countries who has played a pivotal part in contributing green-house gases. The Global Warming is a prize due to their avid consumption of resources as a ‘ripple effect’. The posterior consequences never got true retrospection from their side and continued to carry on advancing their heavily resource-consuming mega infrastructures and consuming resources to create energy (coal, petroleum to generate electricity) & so on. Nevertheless, they have set the conventional slogan of ‘big and beautiful’.

However, in recent years, the Global Warming & climate-change phenomenon has reoriented the development definition. The dilemma between massive consumption of resources for creating mega-structures or building small, green and environment friendly structures is lingering both the developed as well as developing world. Country to country may have their own set of limitations to their path but the issue once again rejuvenated developed and underdeveloped world to come together in a platform because Global Warming is no more a problem of a particular country or an area. It is praiseworthy that even the hostile states are also joining each other’s drive to fight out for this collective cause. To jumpstart is imperative now due to visible & disastrous impact of Climate Change that can be noticed from alarming rise in the sea level of some countries or Graying of ice-covered lands of the green land and the North Pole or the snow-capped Himalayas. This debacle has encouraged indulging in serious discussions & cooperation worldwide.

Many countries are already involved in exchanging ideas & technologies. Developed countries are also forced to divulge their expensive green-technologies to poor countries which otherwise have a handsome value in the commodity market because they know if they don’t share they themselves may devoid of scarce natural resources- drinkable water, irrigation more particularly inundation of their own coastal land due to rise in sea-level. It is pitiful that powerful and highly developed countries commitments at environment summits duly go uncomplied and show indifference towards cutting their carbon emission who often try to escape by injecting token economic packages into developing countries in the name of plantation, awareness & environment protection programs. Global Warming can never be overcome without strong compliance & resilience from developed countries side. They shouldn’t escape from their responsibilities shouldering the burden to the underdeveloped countries.

Developing countries’ untapped natural resources are now into the ‘eagle eyes’ of developed countries. At this juncture, developing countries should move very cautiously and cash the situation and bargain for own set of economic interests simultaneously serving for the collective benefit. Dominant countries poised to capture such resources by manipulation or enticement or by taking advantage of unstable situation. We can never rule out that Nepal can’t be the victim of that fiasco due to our unstable situation, divisive politics & lack of national unity. Nepal, being rich in natural resources-forests, glaciers, lakes, rivers should move vigilantly ahead without compromising its future national interests keeping the internal conflicts at bay. The Global Warming can prove to be ‘the blessing in disguise’ if we are able to tap the situation. Otherwise, Global Warming will certainly wipe us out but we will immediately debarred from our own valuable natural resources. However, if we move responsibly time will be in our favor which can engender our sustainable & prosperous future and also can contribute to overcome the Global Warming & Climate Change.