NASA, after much research believes that the earth tipped a bit in 2004 and then in 2011. The quakes in Indonesia and Japan being the cause. NASA does not believe that the shift in the axis is enough to cause 'Earth People' any worry. Yet, the Inuit tribe in Canada, that is grounded to nature have, without scientific research, told NASA that the tipped earth has given mankind a lot of reasons to worry about. Climate change caused by the shift, and it is more catastrophic than man's own contribution to global warming.Well, here I am, enjoying a Mumbai morning without air conditioning or fan with the temperature in mid teens. And there in New York, my family is happily enjoying the mild winter with temperature in single and low double digits (Celsius). It's a different matter it traveled there to experience a white Christmas.
North England and Scotland are experiencing floods while this year India suffered a drought. Are these events connected? But of course, the weatherman blames it on El Nino and in turn global warming for causing such changes in the weather pattern. Thankfully, world leaders have taken note of the weatherman's accusations and realized that climate will probably end mankind much before Man does it on his own. They met in Paris just days after the terror bombing to reach a consensus on how not to voluntarily add to Mother Nature's own desire to commit suicide, as a mark of failure in dealing with the most destructive animal on this planet - us. COP21 was not exactly a success. We as a species love tragedy and this meet was no different from the environmentalists point of view. Who cares about the weather anyway. It is not entirely man made and now that we know that it's all the earth's own doing, there is not much we can do about it - so we think.
Well humans did do a lot in 2015 to actually tip the world. Most people I have spoken to have credited it to be a bad year, a forgettable year. Has 2015 been a forgettable year for you too? Personally, I would look at the year differently even though there are times that i feel that it's certainly not one that I would care to remember.
It started with Paris taking the center stage with Charlie Hedbo killing, and since then it has been a bad news factory in general. The 'bad' events of the year have certainly crowded out what most of the world would call "good". It has not been a great year for the world or India. Politically, economically, socially, theologically, sportingly things have not been anything to write home about, unless blasts, bailouts, bankruptcy, bullying, beheading, bigotry, belligerence, bribery and other such B words appeals to someones sensibilities.
There are many who say that the events are a fore warnings of the end of the world as we know it. Funny that when Oil started climbing past an unimagined $100 a barrel, we all went screaming it's the end of the world. Now, equally unimagined, as oil keeps dropping and dropping, the scream is strangely no different. In fact, it's not just the sinking price of oil that has made people jump up and down in horror in 2015. Greece, China, Russia, Turkey, US Fed., ECB, and even Donald Trump have terrified the world as much as any terror group has, if not more. None of it brought the world to an end.
India too has been shaken by earthquakes and driven sick by a viral disease called "intolerance". I am told that it was always there within our system, but checked by our own nation's immunity system, which over time has weakened to let lose the epidemic. I on the other hand feel that it is great that we are becoming a nation of intolerant people, except, for the wrong reasons. I would love my fellow countrymen to be intolerant about corruption, filth on the street, lack of civic and road sense, shortage of sanitation-education-infrastructure, rising food prices, security... I could fill this blog with a list of a 1000 such demands. Yet we are so tolerant about it that I too like Aamir Khan's wife did - feel that this is no longer a place to bring up kids. But, no one wants to leave India. The hope for a better tomorrow may have diminished but has not really disappeared.
I may sound like a rambler, but it has been a year of emotional highs and lows. In a sense, the events of 2015 tried very hard to push the world to a brink. To a tipping point of sorts. Yet, the world did not tip.
There is a belief that 2016 will be no better, possibly worse. Plausible, but like 2015, the world will survive. Somehow, I get the feeling that maybe the world has had enough, and it's time for a push back. We may not see the good, but good is happening and it will show up,
Wish you all a very happy and peaceful 2016 and thank you for reading my thoughts.
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