The other day I had gone shopping, and there was this young vegetable vendor yelling lustily at hesitant customers - dordaam korben na, ei bela ja paren kheye nin, 2012-te duniya shesh hoye jachchhe - (don't haggle, eat all you can while you can, the world is coming to an end in 2012)!
Good to see that people - especially those who have to live toughly - can make a joke out of such things.
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Discovery,National Geographic, CNN all showing our Glaciers melting, green house gases building up and sea levels rising.....OUR END IS NEAR......
So what should we do now? Let's start feeling utterly hopelessly guilty about this terrible thing we have done to ourselves and mother earth. We were naive and childish 500 years ago and so we went upon this path of so called progress, building factories; Cutting down trees; Creating bombs in the name of technology, and dropping them on those African and Asian barbaric and backward agrarian folks; Digg all the fossil fuel out of earth's belly....So that we, could live an airconditioned, two cars a person, shopping mall, kind of lifestyle and be called RICH and DEVELOPED nations and proclaim how superior a race we were.
Hey but you know what, those folks in India, China and Brazil are also living that kinda life nowadays;At least a few of them are, and if they keep going like this, all them will,soon;Probably those in Nigeria and Somalia will too, in another 100 years. No this cannot be the path to progress;This is actually the path to peril, and they are the ones who have to rectify ; They are the ones who have to undo all that we have done for the past 500 years; They are the ones that have to reduce their carbon footprint; They are the ones that have to stop their "Progress". We will give them $10Bn and they will lap it up and follow our words because a lot of their people still don't have a car, still doesn't work in a factory, still doesn't have enough to eat.
Oh and let's top it all up and throw in some blockbuster movies like "The day after tomorrow" and "2012" to drive the point in, just in case they are not getting the enormity of the crisis yet.
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