Our Glocal Village

Dipesh Dulal's views on global and local perspectives

I’d been thinking of rural development and had been longing for practising it. On the way, I’d found youth members of Nepalese society; of diversified potentialities.

In the due course, rural development thesis has been extended, being very busy on meetings, actions and exercises to exhibit Youth Movement on Climate Action. I’m being specific here, esp. the Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) circle. Inspirationally! Some youth members are very versatile. If such versatility worked only for sustainable development of Nepal, being an example; would be great. We could advocate the climate of the world with full pressure to lead the leaders towards change.

This year the Dutch Government’s fund to some 50 youth participants from developing countries (Global South) was like a strategic effort to make them face the challenge in future negotiations, as this needs wider insight of global political-economy. After 18th Dec 2009, the situation of youth members’ leadership skills on climate negotiations making me desperate.

If someone asks me about the full-text that COP15 came up with; I can’t answer in detail. But concisely, everyone is not happy with the fact that legally binding deal was not reached. How it could reach? For James Lovelock’s enlightening words from BBC’s Haldtalk has striken my senses.

I’m truly looking forward the global youth’s (Global North and Global South) policy on population, energy-use, and economy. COP15 aftermath led me to learning the Lession: “Obama’s change seems just like word of a Hollywood movie.” If it is extremely tough to reach the change-indicator, then COP16 in some 6 months in Mexico (http://www.cop16.mx/3w/) is goig to be a non-sense conference of 192 countries and new countries.

Now, I’m getting into a glimpse of discourses with sir James Lovelock, a supporter scientist of nuclear energy. The urban amience, fantastic lights, drinks, societies, youth are now being part of lifestyle of world youth taking myself as an example. If our lifestyle tends towards wasteful use of energy plus if we want to be straightward in nuclear energy, James seems to be compulsorily entertained.

Large arrays of Solar PV cells and huge cover of land with wind turbines are not just uneconomical but also can be questioned about the CO2 emission during the production and use of non-renewable resources, perhaps steel.

Coming back to the Nepalese situation, I and my friends this January in rural part of Nepal are exploring the taste of millet and some underground roots. I do believe that these items are immediate answers to the fall of global food production. Also, a crazy idea of installing bicycle-dynamo-turbine in laminar water-falls for rural street/trail lighting!

I’d like to pose a question to James Lovelock: What if global population- and economic policy go green and people shift to numbers of small sized (pico- or nano-) solutions? This alternative in front on James Lovelock is to make him take the safety issues linked with nuclear energy.