There may be storm clouds ahead for the city of Ahmedabad. The
storm clouds though may be unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide
interacting with sunlight resulting in the city being covered in smog. Whatever
be the price of progress, surely unlivable cities is not one worth paying. The
city of Ahmedabad is now the 5th most polluted in the country and
despite the healthy cost of property in Ahmedabad the cost of
living in the city may not be worth it for some.
How is it that a culture that nearly equates nature with the
divine has turned it back on its values to wholeheartedly embrace foreign
values of which it knows nearly nothing, values the originators themselves know
little about.
It is indeed not completely unlike the moment of the first nuclear
test in history when scientists had unleashed the nuclear genie and which once
released could not be put back in the bottle. We live daily with the
repercussions of that event nearly 70 years on, the majority of which time most
in the world wondered about the likelihood of mutually assured destruction as two
superpowers armed with nuclear weapons faced off. Today the same threat remains
alive in the form of the bomb finding its way into the hands of extremists.
The danger from industrial gasses and carbon emissions is a far
more subtle and slow acting problem which some today even debate the validity
of. However most agree that the end result of the release of gases into the
atmosphere will in likelihood be not too dissimilar from that which we thought
we had avoided after the end of the cold war. In the end our planet may
become uninhabitable for human life.
Regardless of what happens in the future many are paying the
ultimate price today. Though people in the prosperous state of Gujarat continue
to buy property in Ahmedabad,
being attracted to the city for the opportunities it presents, some may find
the hard way that to by owing real
estate property in Ahmedabad they paid a price that was far in
excess of what they intended to.
This to some may sound like fearmongering, but the facts bear out.
Many geologists and climatologists have already coined a new term for our epoch
in order to separate it from earlier ones. Whereas the time of the dinosaurs 65
million years ago was termed the Jurassic, our inchoate epoch too has a term
separating it from the previous epoch. Our current epoch is very recent,
beginning only a few decades ago when humans began to alter the planets
ecosystem drastically by releasing greenhouse gasses and other pollutants into
the atmosphere. We are drastically changing the planet and nobody knows where
it will lead to.
I would still say that the top
builders in Ahmedabad will make lots of profits in the future; they
shall continue to build property in
Ahmedabad and school their children in Shimla or Switzerland. Their
customers, the ones who actually buy property
in Ahmedabad to live at, may in the long run pay a heavy price.
