When Concord took its last flight, it made history for a wrong reason.

Historically, human race have always taken steps in forward direction, but that day we took a step back - From Supersonic age of travel, we came back to subsonic traveling. The time taken to cross the Atlantic again increased from that day.

But now it looks like that was not the only step taken in backward direction.

From use of public mode of transport, most of us got our own vehicles and happily used them, and now with traffic snarls, crude hitting the roof (and likely to go up even further), and worries of global warming, many of us are choosing to use public transport again wherever possible.

Electricity was a problem some decades ago because we were not generating enough, after that came a time when most of our cities, towns and villages got electrified and now suddenly we are facing shortage of electricity again. In fact, during summer, many suburbs of even mega city like Mumbai, have to go without electricity for over 3-4 hours every day.

Farmers once grew vegetables organically, were told to use pesticides, but now we have found the use of pesticides has many serious effect on our health and many of us are again spending more money to buy food grown organically.

Earlier houses were built to make maximum use of available resources but were replaced by mass housing and energy inefficient commercial buildings with heavy dependence on devices such as electric cooling and heating. The wheel has turned and many new real estate projects now “boast” of being ecologically sensitive with designs that makes use of available natural resources.

After a few decades of luxurious living, have we taken a U turn and are going back to living in hardship or is this just a temporary phase and we will go back to our carefree style of living once again.

I doubt that.

We have abused whatever we had to such an extent and in such a short period of time, that most of the problems that we are facing today will be faced by generations to come.

Our kids and their kids will have to live in a world that is hotter than ours, with much less water, Poles without ice, natural calamities caused by changes in climate and shortage of basic needs such as food and electricity (hopefully by that time either solar, wind, geo-thermal, nuclear or some other renewable source of energy will be used).

And I wonder if they will be able to afford to go on a long drive with their loved ones.

Is the doomsday really much closer than we think or are we getting paraniod and things will somehow work out for good?

I am not sure...