The fact today is that we are living in an extremely volatile geo-political environment worsened by our own mindless, shortsighted and uncontrolled human activities. The future repercussions (which are not a future anymore!) of our egoistic developments that were often (always) neglected and forgotten looks now more prominent than ever. The world today is facing serious issues that are all somewhere linked to this monstrous human greed. There is global food shortage, economic crisis, risk of epidemics, nuclear emergencies, terrorism (and/or war)…. There is shortage of natural resources, energy crisis, climate change and natural (unnatural!) disasters like the recent earth quake and tsunami in Japan. It’s ironical that the nuclear reactors which were meant to meet the energy requirements to make life run are now posing the biggest challenges apart from the earthquake and tsunami itself in this post-disaster aftermath. The developed countries burn chunks of their resources (not just dollars) in defense (or attack?) technologies and armories to show off their domination and power. They build super highways, neon cities and skyscrapers, to stand tall (and laugh at the miseries of poor nations). And they always sends (invests) money and people (army) after every devastation (self or natural) to show their solidarity (and superiority) to the international community. But one would wonder that instead of sensitizing international equilibrium and pushing people towards uncertain and riskier political environments they could have primarily addressed to issues that are beyond a country’s local concerns. The need is global unity and true cooperation by which we can (“Yes We Can…”) cope with unforeseen natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis or even any epidemic flue that they names after some unfortunate innocent animals.
