Geopolitics at Pause

 Geopolitics at Pause

As an author there is a self-giving freedom for imagination and a diplomatic freedom of expressing the same. Not all thoughts germinating from the mind of an author is received with openness. Critics are part of the play. This article will have no less a surprise if critics emerge from any part of the digital wave.

Geopolitics is a stage where invariably all countries from all identified continents participate. Players are many and all of their focus will be centric to economics. Strangely, countries with divided opinion come out on the stage as paired ones expressing strong hatred. Every geopolitical event gets magnetized between such two countries that confront to divide the globe.

War for supremacy, race in conquering space, race in exhibiting supremacy in war strategies, race for putting up leading technological progresses, race in development in medical expertise, economic race for dominance, race for currency supremacy, and the list keep adding every passing day.

When two countries with rich history, progressive thoughts, facing each other as opponents on global stage decide to shred away their differences, set in a pact for openness, evolve a plan for trusting each other, respecting each other's intrinsic goodwill, signing a historic document to never show any sign of hatred between them, accepting mutually benefitting trade formulas, integrating by way of respect to respect and honor both its citizens, ensuring a stronger bond that cannot be diluted by any envying nation, agreeing to share their natural richness of resources for progressive future, agreeing never to edge out each other for dominance, will set the act of Geopolitics at pause. 

Which two countries could, with privilege in qualification, participate in a futuristic act such as one dreamed in the previous paragraph is an open option for readers to fill in their mind. Many readers may weigh different combinations as options to test the pattern set in the dream that can pause critics of geopolitics for the next 100 years. 

Many may start with the US and Russia, Russia and Ukraine, Iran and Israel, Egypt and Israel, India and Pakistan, North and South Korea, Japan and China, and many more. As an author, I too, use the privilege of choice from many options available. It just struck that these two countries should have a rich cultural history that complemented each other all the way back in time. 

That two countries which had rich cultural history that complemented each other, having huge potential for mutual economic activities, rich is participative markets, not keen to exercise supremacy by war and conflict, interested in diluting all differences grown in passing times, ensuring trusted transparency in agreement, agreeing to pay mammoth cost of significant proportion if breaking the trust bond, and going ahead to shake hands and sign the mutual and powerful document that will silence all critics, start to worry international economist, mute all international critics and cause a pause on geopolitics will be the first two highly populated nations in Asia. 

If an honest pact of trust between the two most populated nations in Asia happen, then all superpowers will be in a state of muted shock. To do or not to do is not in our hands, to dream and not to dream is a personal choice. But unbending super-powers will simply have sleepless hours in years to come if something like that happen.

 

Dominating 1.5 Factor

 Dominating 1.5 Factor

Energy is consumed in all activities. Humans use energy in everyday for many activities. Energy drives activities. Energy in discussion is the electrical energy used in human society for various activities. Energy for electricity can be produced from fossil fuels like the coal, crude oil and natural gas. Another way of producing electrical energy is from natural resources like the solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, biomass and tidal waves.

Fossil fuel has created distress in the balance of economic power among nations due to its uneven distribution. The transition in society to abandon fossil fuel and move to usage of natural resources will make all nations equal in economic power.

Energy is consumed in one form or another in producing all goods available in markets. In a store with many unsold products in their shelves will simply mean that energy consumed is stored unused. Care needs to be taken in producing goods to set a balance based on demand and supply. Excessively produced goods only reflect wastage of energy and unutilized energy.

Energy is a product of power and time. With power measured in watt and time in hours, one unit of electrical energy is measured as one kilowatt hour [kWh]. One kilowatt hour is 1000 watt hour. One kg of LPG used is equivalent to 1kWh of energy and 1 liter of petrol or diesel is equivalent to 13kWh of energy. The unit to measure consumption of energy of a nation is TOE [Tonnes of Oil Equivalent] where one TOE is equal to 11630 units of electrical energy.

One issue that has knocked the doors of all nations is the Climate change and this has made Carbon the core, thus the issue now is Carbon. The total quantum of Green House Gases [Carbon dioxide CO₂, Methane and Nitrous oxide] produced and emitted into the atmosphere resulting due to activities is Carbon Footprint.

One unit of electricity consumed result in pushing one kg of CO₂ into the atmosphere. One liter of petrol or diesel consumed pushes 3 kgs of CO₂ and one kilo of LPG consumed pushes 3 kgs of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide stays for many years in the atmosphere causing distress to atmosphere and these causes’ change in climatic conditions.

Based on the global average surface warming the climate threshold is kept at 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. Once 1.5 degree Celsius of climate threshold is crossed then climate change factors become irreversible, and consequence thereof will be severe. All nations have started to feel the level of climatic distress through unprecedented rains, floods, hurricanes, forest fire and rise in sea level.

All Governments are taking relentless measures to tackle this climate change issues. Governments have to put in attractive policies to ensure global preparedness to drift away from the 1.5 degree Celsius for good.

It looks like the activities of discontinuing production of small cars, fast paced development in Artificial Intelligence, replacing humans with automated technologies, organic farming methods, shifting to vegetarian food, digital learning, reducing use of paper, population control measures are part of the climate change program to stay safely far away from the 1.5 factor.