we always do that..
We would not have ever known a thing called history if we could reverse the events happened at their times. That is how exactly opposite the history of anything has been forming.Today, we have things to know from the past and the values and impacts inherited from those occurrences, indirectly or directly affecting our life in various aspects, be it our culture, our attitude, our belief or perception about ‘X’ (anything). On the other hand, we have endless forums to discuss, to criticize, analyze and comment on those bygone events with unlimited fatalistic questions and “post-dictions” (from prediction). We wish if X did/didn’t have/had happened and so and so (as if somebody could have ever willed his own death or the gardener the height of the tree). Nonetheless, we do so. And, incidents occur. Undecided or “may be”, decided. That is something called NATURE, the omnipresent quality transcendent of human will and ordinary perception.(......more on nature)The quality which is still contested since eons and that challenges the Gods of self, haunts the seeker of absolute truth and empowers the negotiated worshippers of nature who restrict their definition of nature to only earthly entities or little beyond that to the hitherto known universe.In the same line, let’s look at the climate change from an angle only very few people have sided with, amidst so much buzz around this happening affair. The perspective is that, climate change is predestined. If we do not welcome climate change we should not have wished to see modernism. The other party, however, would contend by stressing on “careless development or careless planning” and that it could have been negated. But, when did we really come to know that something is going wrong, it’s only when we have seen its ferocious manifestations in the forms of disastrous floods and droughts, etc, magnified by artificial detectors and then being zoomed in by various media creating a hullabaloo about it, in the manner similar to Archimedes’ serendipity of density! In a very plain tone, we started talking about climate change long after it had actually gained momentum. Hence, the story repeats- Nature, post-dictions… et al!Be it a motile or static object, everything that exists do change rather ‘transforms’ with time but does not get nullified at all, confirmed by the first law of thermodynamics (since nothing exists without energy). Why not climate? It has been changing since as long as we have been able to look back. Moreover, climate change is neither a new phenomenon nor a consequence of any short duration process but, a prolonged gradual change.Be it in the big bang concept- the creation from the destroyed state or as in Vedanta’s history of creation- after big bang development through stages of degradation till destruction, the gradual change is evident. On the basis of that may be the climate change is preparation for another big bang or another ‘Satya yug’; as the Earth is currently spanning 5000+ years of Kal Yug (the most degraded period on Earth according to Vedanta) which gives a way to Sayta Yug or Golden age, the most clean and peaceful period on Earth after passing through another two periods with gradual degradation, in the cycle of ages according to Vedanta. In any case, change is inevitable. But we can definitely steer the direction of change.Now, climatologists have declared that we cannot escape climate change anymore, and that we have to ‘adapt’ with it. Is not the story repeating? Climate change is predestined, I cannot escape accepting it. However, as I said before directions are open to us; we can veer our way of living towards our choice. We can either live a traditional life or a modern technology dependent life; in both the cases we cannot escape degradation or a more polished word ‘change’ with fleeting time. What would have happened if we all had been living a traditional life? How the change would have been? We can’t say because we have not tried it. And the rest will be a repetition. “Post-dictions”!
