This is a very valid point. The broad picture of modern civilization being the cause of misery of people in the Kosi area was being missed while attacking apparently the very special Kosi fan problem. This was the reason for trying a different and truer perspective of handling the one major problem-modern civilization-while tackling such individual problems was my reason for bringing in apparently diverse issues because the almost half century of fight against the powers on the solution to this or to any other problem has only yielded in bypassing any opinion other than the officialese on the Kosi problem or the nuclear issue or the food issue(GMOs) or any issue you may raise. They all have a common underpinning, fascism- we usurp all the power- we control everything. We dont care about the Kosi fan people or the
people of India for that matter!
So the focus on the Kosi problem must have this broader perspective which will not be available until we solve the root cause of negelect of ALL people's problems. In small self sufficient communities we design around our ignorance and automatically local solution may prevail as the perfect design. Shri Mishra's solution is elegant and apllicable to a host of similar situations, if only we choose normal civilization based on harmony with nature and apply it to local circumstances.
In Is justice in or out, I have brought out the central dogma of modern civilization and set it out against its problems= making us labrats even to the extent of ushering in extinction. When we neglect to respect the fundamental behaviour of nature and volunteer to go against beyond its benign margins, what do we see in Kosi: Kosi fan rebels against this breaks all the barriers,
whether it is done by the people or the river. We cut forests and build dams and when the result is extremes of rainfall patterns, the dam is subject to patterns of surges of inflow much beyond its design basis and fails, or the canal side fails and makes the entire river go to its natural course instead of the narrow path it is forced to follow by specialist design. The interconnections of nature are ignored and man-made forces build up stresses within the earth and climate change results! For example, in the form of violent vibrations of the foundations of the dam itself and sooner or later it goes beyond its design basis. The ageing of these structures is again what has been neglected. In other words nature's interconnections via the giant pumping actions of trees and the sun and underground water flow and riverine flows are replaced by forces created by dams infintely more than nature! The result is nature breaks up resulting in earthquakes
and climate change and turns round and destroys man's creations!
It is now a simple matter to see how the same ignorance drives the brai bill as brought out by the URL referred to above: Just in 2009 they(the specialists) discovered that the central dogma of molecular biology is false! One gene does not result in one trait! A mixture of genes and other properties of the cell in unknowable interconnected fashion result in a given trait of a given creation of life! This rigid interconnectedness limits by evolution the great creations of nature to the myriad forms and characteristics we observe and we have not observed! To forcibly cut a particular gene string from one organism and introduce into another organism destroys the natural attributes of the organism into which the gene has been spliced and the resultant would be having totally different characteristics from what was intended! Thus a particular trait is unique to that
particular organism created over many generations!Thus the specialists would like to try the new scheme on nature and on us LABRATS exactly as the specialist engineers ignoring the interconnections of nature spliced in the Kosi snake against the will of Kosi and the fan!
Understanding the problem this way we the people will all come together to defeat the fascists' ignorance and place before us all how nature works and incidentally we enountering seemingly myriad problems will at once see: Ham sab ek hai!
So the fishermen's problems become the Kudankulam struggle's problems or the Jaitapur struggle's or the Corruption issues or indeed the dam issues and the forest and river issues and the question of deficit financing and the question of grains rotting or the FDI retail or the displacement issue or the constitution and normal civilization.
Mahatma
Gandhi saw through the interconnections of these myriad problems and proclaimed as long ago as 1908: Given enough time modern civilization will destroy itself! But he did imply it will destroy life itself. So people facing all shades of problems unite under the banner of harmony with Mother earth or perish!