Green bashing - a passing thought

Other day i was in a meeting with ernst while secretary of urban development.

Agree with him on the thoughts on town planning that city of Paris is thinking of the city's development 60 years from now.

But where are we ? Do we have any plans for the city development. There is something called Greater Chennai in paper ? But anything on making it livable place ? No answer from any departments.

City's Green space is shrinking day by day. More " Green " buildings are certified which stands in a place of Green land / water body.

Wanted to raise that question in that meeting. But as a usual responsible family man, i had to keep my mouth shut.

On the other day, there was a conference happening at Chennai trade centre, where all the top guns where talking about energy efficiency with Airconditioning system at full throttle. Literally everyone inside were shivering. That is called Indian way of walk the talk.

There is huge difference between what people say and what they are really up to.

Now every alternate day i get a mail about so called Green conventions / Green meetings.

Hey come on. It was with us 30 years ago. We all buried it to support so called western culture. Now we are going back to that, but paying a premium to westerners.

Lets be choosy in selecting what technology we have to adopt. Let us not just go blind behind each & everything we see. Lets use our judgement & decide.