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Living on a (thin) margin
Tropentag 2011 will have a focus on development on the margin.
Watching the images and the video from Japan calls for a re-definition of our perspective on margin. There is no nation more modern and more organised than Japan, nevertheless the thinness of the edge on which modernity lives was revealed in the most striking way.
Photo: Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images
Photo: Kyodo/Reuters
Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
The nuclear crisis adds greatly to uncertainty, also by virtue of the fragile confidence of consumers and bussinesses -both crucial in Japan's economy. Although there are grounds to hope that this month’s terrible events will not cause lasting damage to Japan’s economy, it remains to see if it will affect the wider natural resource management and global energy debate and -most importantly- consumption patterns.
Of course, an earthquake or raging 20m-high tsunami waves rushing over embankments and flowing into cities and towns carrying vehicles, ships and houses inland are not consequences of climate change. But they might become a decisive wake-up call in our choosing between economic suicide, and a blueprint for transforming our self-destructive lifestyles.
Photo: Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images
Photo: Kyodo/Reuters
Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
The nuclear crisis adds greatly to uncertainty, also by virtue of the fragile confidence of consumers and bussinesses -both crucial in Japan's economy. Although there are grounds to hope that this month’s terrible events will not cause lasting damage to Japan’s economy, it remains to see if it will affect the wider natural resource management and global energy debate and -most importantly- consumption patterns.
Of course, an earthquake or raging 20m-high tsunami waves rushing over embankments and flowing into cities and towns carrying vehicles, ships and houses inland are not consequences of climate change. But they might become a decisive wake-up call in our choosing between economic suicide, and a blueprint for transforming our self-destructive lifestyles.
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