Rightsizing
The tragedy of the commons is a term used in the social sciences to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own…
Economy at the crossroads – II
These circumstances require a 'Balancing Act' that caters for long and medium term financial requirements of industrial units, especially export-based industries. There is a serious need to change the direction.…
The privatisation agenda
Ab initio, whoever dreamt up the mechanism of State spending money that it does not have out of borrowing which it can never pay back is the unsung hero of…
New records
Around the world, atypical climate change grows increasingly threatening to all life on the planet, principally because of excessive carbon dioxide emissions. Paradoxically, this is happening on the heels of…
Perils of intervention
A cabal of Western imperialists led by US President Donald Trump is hatching conspiracies to topple the elected government of Venezuela after Caracas refused to bow to the idols of…
Every drop counts
In 2016, the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) issued a report that suggested the country had touched the water-stress line in 1990 and crossed the water-scarcity line…
Science under Trump
Somehow, some way, we have made it to the end of 2017.And what a long year it’s been. Looking back, it is almost unbelievable how much damage the Trump administration…
The first 1000 days
Pakistan’s population has crossed the 200 million-mark and is projected to reach 400 million by 2050 under most scenarios. More than 68 percent of this population is under 29 years…
Catching up with the climate
Raging forest fires in California, lurking cyclones in the Arabian Sea and the deadly heatwaves are the many ways global warming is increasing poverty and disease as the global fossil…
We are playing games
We, as a nation, have generally been hiding from history. This may be a subterfuge to avoid or ease the pain of the numerous disasters and upheavals of our existence.…
