Time to Focus
The Dance
I have been away from this site for a long time. I have been away dancing around, trying to figure out which angle to focus. Climate change, global warming, pollution, environmental degradation, and losing biodiversity all bother me. However, I am not a technical expert on any of these issues. I am a normal human being who knows these changes affect him and that they will imperil his children’s future.
Apart from being worried about the problems of climate change, I realized I have worked in food and health for many years. I am a metallurgical engineer, but I moved to nutrition and health after my MBA.
My first natural brush with pollution was when we moved to Shanghai. My son developed asthma, which became okay when we moved to Singapore. A grey-blue sky greeted us after we moved back to India (to Bombay). When I lived in Shanghai, I became accustomed to the grey-blue sky and only when we got transferred to Singapore did it strike me that the sky could be a lovely, bright blue.
The Change
We moved back to Delhi about a decade ago, and two changes struck hard. The first was the awful quality of the air, which becomes unbreathable around Diwali. The second was the extraordinary heat. Delhi has always been hot, but the summers now were scorching. Delhi always had an awful, suffocating monsoon with no wind. The monsoon is asphyxiating, and I did not understand why my blood pressure was shooting through to outer space.
These two changes (plus the awful hazy sky: a photographer’s nightmare) prompted me to study climate change. Delhi is noisy, and noise pollution creates severe stress.
The impact of climate change has been bothering me, especially its effect on human health. Therefore, I will direct my writing on the impact of climate change, global warming, etc., on human health. I doubt I will post more than once (maybe twice) a month. It is better to do proper research and write sense than post rubbish for the sake of posting often.
