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The Third Revolution
*** Sustainable development is about decentralisation, localisation, self-help, production by the masses, equitable distribution and consumption, gender equity, caring for the Nature etc. Shajahan Bhuiya explains further ***
A MONO many revolutions in the world the . most significant were the agricultural arid industrial ones Alter many pursuits nt human history, the agricultural revolution provided mankind with the scope ot sustaining in a comparatively stable way. After this revolution, the world population expanded and the trading class in the then agrarian world accumulated their mercantile capital, seeking investment in the av enues where profit would multiply. This demanded the need for another sudden, fundamental and complete change in the productive system. The Industrial Revolution, then, paved the way of production-centred development in a formal and more pronounced way.
Following this revolution, the humanity saw the rise of imperial and colonial powers to fight devastating wars on global scale for gaining more access to markets and control of existing ones in order to get more wealth out of these. After the wars, both the victors and the vanquished felt the need for accelerated production to make up the loss arising out of the rubbles. In Western Europe, the slogan was voiced "Produce or perish". Subsequently, all industrial economies started a policy of “Mass-production, mass-consumption and their ultimate equilibrium."
The vision that influenced to pursue such policy and strategy is a growth-centred development. Growth needs resources. It does not flows in without en-ergy and physical inputs. But in a finite world, infinite growth is contrary to logic. The source of resources and the sinks to absorb the wastes and pollutants released by the growth-centred economy have their limits. These cannot bear unlimited loads. Attempting to go beyonfi Itheir limits is to invite disaster. Growth-centred development which is based on greed and devoid of love for the hu-mahity is antithesis of wisdom and logic. Therefore, it has become tjhe urgent need by the concerned to think about and act on the alternative to dominant development paradigm based on growth-centred development vision and belief.
With the 21st century round the corner, fortunately the concerned have begun to speak about the alternative development paradigm, indicating coining of the thfrcf reyglutiQri', — the Sustalnaonity lRevolti;" Upn. The limits 9(|so')j|-c6s‘.pXvp!-,. sources and, pinks to absorb Ine w^Sjte and polluA^pfs, (have, started to herald Ine clbse end of the days of cow-boy economies. Grazing fields are not unending. We nave to behave like the astronauts in the spaceship. Failure to comply with the requirement of the spaceship will bring doom. New development paradigm, based on the vision and belief of sustainable development, has been emerging. This sustainable development is also termed as
people centred development winch is based on reasonable growth with justice, equity and sustainability Here, the key word - sustainability — is understood as the bearing capacity of sources of resources and sinks of pollutants and waste.
Sustainable development is grounded with view which perceives that our planet is a lifesustaining spaceship with finite store of physical and environmental resources. Its logic is balanced human ecology. This balanced human ecology is necessary for bio-diversity which supports the system of a sustainable planet. The resource of sustainable development is the vast source of information that humanity has now at its disposal .
The sustainable development speaks about decentralisation. localisation, self-help, production by the masses, equitable distribution and consumption. gender equity, participatory democracy, non-violent or less-violent appropriate technology, cultural diversity, caring for the Nature, etc. It encourages reclaiming and recycling wastes and throw away used resources. It calls for efficiency in energy and,material use. It prefers use of renewable energy and resources to non-re-npwable ones. It demands im-Srovements in all, designs for le sake of efficiency and also efficf^iyt and expanded use of solar and, wind energy.
Sustainable use of resources is fundamental, to sustainable development. It tries to change the life-style conductive to conservation and development. Finally. and very truly, it wants to give 'more' out of ’less' to a vast majority of people can our existing education system cater to the needs of the Third Revolution which has to occur to save us from the disaster, anticipated to happen, if existing production and consumption pattern continues unabated under the Influence of dominant development paradigm? The answer is: certainly not. The vision of people-centred development under the alternative development paradigm must be propped by an education system capable of meeting the needs of sustainability revolution. Total education system in terms of its goals and purpose, contents, forms, structure, approach, etc., has to be reformed and transformed to create a value base and provide necessary knowledge. skill, habit and attitude.
A great ptuioeoplter on!e' said; ^liuaiinri Is ilu- ptrpara^ tion that will guide a man the long difficult road of life. Igno rance! holds a man in benighted prison where from education sets him free and equips him with the means of physical existence and spiritual development."
We should commit ourselves to contribute to such a noble endeavour.
The writer is the Executive Director of Camilla Proshika Centre for Development.