Sometime (shud there be a space between some and time) back India Today carried a cover page graphic of the Gateway of India half submerged in the sea declaring doomsday by 2020. Maybe other publications, esp all the environmental ones have been harping on the topic for a while but i don't read them so too bad. And everybody, including the rather well-spoken (by that i mean speaking grammatical English) former mayor of Pune, has seen The Inconvenient Truth and is now all scared about the future.
About time we started worrying about the future but wierdly enough everybody still thinks its someone else's problem...the government does not seem to be in any mood to make any drastic changes in the way we live...lets face it we don't make changes for good unless somebody forces us to... so the government might as well do something. I've been trying not to litter, scraps of paper and plastic are proudly tucked away, into several pockets of numerous handbags, to be thrown into bins later. It's another matter that the 'later' happens a very long time after that but at least i make sure the scraps go into the bin after all. but I've been thinking about getting my kinetic honda to live with me so that i could have a much more convenient life. hitch is every time i think of riding the scooter i think of the gateway pic...and i wonder if getting a sailing boat would be a better investment...
Another thing...if all of Mumbai is going to be underwater in the next 13 years why are property prices still rising...
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