Thursday, December 3, 2015

India is next to China

Whenever a festive season comes or an international event is organised the news around the same is published, discussed and highlighted, after the event or occasion concludes the matter gets shelved. This is the same case with COP21 Climatic change summit, now every media is highlighting the need to think on global warming, articles were written, issues are highlighted situation is so highlighted to create a feel that this summit is discussing and arriving at a solution, to this contrast there is never a decision taken nor consensus arrived on any global concerns like Global warming, Terrorism, Poverty, Malnutrition etc.

The massive industrialization is highlighted as a major cause for Global warming soon after this event the developed countries like India will be busy enticing global manufacturing giants to their respective country for the want of investment, for the want of jobs and for gaining global attention by pulling big time investment that comes with big time companies.

People from Developed countries like US, UK, Germany are becoming more fairer since they import finished products and developed countries people are getting darker due to pollution created by massive manufacturing zones.

The unbearable fact about the global economy is that developing countries are burning themselves to make the developed countries more developed. The developing countries under the mask of industrialization and to become a developed country will end up spending more money to heal from the negative effects of pollution than the few positive aspects that spur out of enticing investment.

Huge population, wast expanses of land availability, unemployed youth in Asian countries require money and resources for better livelihood that made China as factory for manufacturing all kinds of goods. This had made China the second most polluted country in the world. This country was so busy in manufacturing that it forgot to look after its own health that got severely spoiled to an extent that people are now afraid to come out fearing the high index (Courtesy: Pollution index installed at US embassy) of pollution.

The US, mother of many cash rich global business giants feed this development starved nations, effort is of developing nation and development is for developed nation. There is a notion in India that rich becomes rich and poor is becoming poorer, the same principle suits this development global story, the developed nation is getting more and more developed where as developing nations to reach the standards of developed nation feel that they are developing, but pollution will swallow the wealth that garnished all these decades.

Now Its India's turn, our own PM launched "Make in India" to shift the manufacturing hubs from China to India. Even though our political system does not enable us to speed up industrialization it is for sure that India will be wearing breathing masks soon. The current pollution levels in Delhi and Mumbai are so alarming that very soon the capital city will be very harsh to Survive.

The thinking that only westernization or looking west is only way for development should be revived and developing countries should look into options to market their inherent competencies compatible to environment and make earth a more safer place to live.