Every morning the day in Kathmandu begins at 4, 5 am. The parents make a good deal of efforts waking up their children from slumber to gear up for the schools and colleges. Some kids crying louder bothering their neighbor and adamant to get up. The teenagers, the college goers have even tougher time getting up as early as 5 and get prepared. It is curious that the girls manage to get wonderfully dressed with amazing make ups so early.
The streets are already full of activity at early morning. There is circular motion of college goers moving here and there at every direction with diverse colors uniforms. Mask clad girls can be seen stepping ahead enigmatically protecting themselves from the dust and feel carefree inside undisclosed identity. Some girls are sticking to their lean boyfriends in fancy modified bikes riding at the speed of 70 km per hour. So it is not strange to witness mishaps early in the morning due to over-speeding of bikes.
The sweepers already ‘finish up’ their duties early by the dawn. The morning walkers seem targeting different directions revitalizing their energy passing through the circle of dust. The porters are already gathered at chowks hope get employment of moving the merchandise. The rag pickers are already surrounding the garbage piles. Slowly the street is thickening up by the vehicular movement and passersby. Entire city remains busy, dusty, congested, crowded throughout the day. The congestion is more awful at evenings. It is hard to differentiate between the pavement and road because both the places are used by the commuters and vehicles together. People look hurrying up to their destinations. The ears get deafening blows due to biker’s honking searching for the road ahead as if they are in the great emergency.
The night life begins with the engagements to star hotels to cafes to dance bars to dohari bars to discos. Mostly they are jampacked with the young crowd. Various recreations & enjoyments are obtainable at different places according to the class & choice of people. This saga remains until late night. Another segment of the netizens is ready to wake up for the following day when some are yet to finish up the day. So the city never gets rest rumbling with the crowd everyday & night while humbly furnishing all the good and ugly demands of the citizens without getting any act of care & compassion return. It simply obtains the trademark of polluted, dirty, filthy city by the people who everyday simply contaminate the streets, rivers & the entire environment.
Monday, December 21, 2009
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.
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.
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