Power of the "powerFOOLS"

1987 was the year of whole new beginning where a new era of  Sustainable Development was conceived. Yes it was the Brundtland commission’s report titled “ our common future” which was the first of its  kind to bring into existence the concept of sustainable development.  NO one then knew what precisely the SUSTAINABLE development contained..surprisingly no one does that even today. We have international summits, where the much hyped and self proclaimed think tanks of environment and sustainable development gather just to ponder upon issues which are draped in new avatars, but loaded with same old attitudes in mind, with no aggression to change.

A classic example of this is the world biggest ever blackout that happened last week in our country. Today when science & technology have touched the sky and reached the space,  did anyone ever imagined , one day human driven crisis can be so overpowering that it would leave half of the nation BLACK and DARK..!!! To add to this national shame, the very next day our power minister was promoted as union minister. A true “Powerfool”. On  one side we have human driven climate change, where like fools we have been trying to pretend the governance on nature. Today we are trying to prove our victory on humankind as a whole. Behind the pepperazzi of the word “Sustainable development”, incidences like these leave us with a question in mind, what does development mean to us? May be we are just moving ahead with a blindfold , with absolute lack of vision required to actually “DEVELOP “.

Then what is development? Is it the increased rate of resource crunch that cities are  facing and our governing bodies turning a blind eye to it?? Or is it the increasing vulnerabilities to global issue like climate change where plethora of research and issues are in hand but with a bleak solution to tackle it. Or is it exponentially increasing urban population with no power, no water and no appropriate infrastructure to sustain. Are we really SUSTAIN – able? Can we really? 

Groping into answers for these would require a transformation. The fact that our development is lopsided, we need to think from a point of view, where humans are at the centre of decision making and not just development. Well i wish it was as simple as the picture below... !!!