Where can we go right?

Where can we go right?

February 2009, Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed article on his experience during a trip to New Delhi. Friedman wrote, “After a year of watching adults engage in devastating recklessness in the financial markets and depressing fecklessness in the global climate talks, it’s refreshing to know that the world keeps minting idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation.”

Two college students took Friedman on a tour, driving him around in an electric car equipped with solar panels on the roof. He saw that the Chinese Embassy is topped with a solar hot water heater while the US Embassy is adorned with satellite dishes, etc.

Friedman also described various other “…indigenous energy solutions [that] were budding in India — ‘like organic farming in Andhra Pradesh, or using neem and garlic as pesticides, or the kind of recycling in slums, such as Dharavi. We saw things already in place, like the Gadhia solar plant in Valsad, Gujarat, where steam is used for cooking and you can feed almost 50,000 people in one go.’ (See: www.indiaclimatesolutions.com.)”

May we learn right away to quickly dismiss the egos and blame-game and come to a place where the only things we value—the primary focus of all we talk about and report on—are innovative solutions. Yes we can, and here’s how…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15friedman.html?_r=1