MIcRo has to be the buzzword
The world has to reduce its carbon footprint. That’s the need of the hour, Established fact by COVID, Wildfires, Earthquakes, and high-impact natural disasters.
The World developed Scale, so did Natural disasters.
The World Developed a Competitive advantage, so did Natural calamities.
The rich didn’t pay. The poor paid a heavy price.
The current model of Mega factories, Mega Dams, Mega Highways, Mega Planes is the root cause of Mega Disasters.
Imagine if China was a closed economy, would the world have faced its worst healthcare challenge in modern times?
Even if the Virus is not made in China. The spread is truly an after-effect of globalization, A globe-trotting population.
The Passports created the problem, and Social Security survivors paid the price.
It’s time to look away from Mega Models under EarthShastra. We don’t need Mega Plants being operated by Mega Machines. We need smaller plants, run by Humans.
We need small cities
We need micro solutions, Mini Solutions, for Mini and Micro communities.
It’s time to spread the population wider and not concentrate in one location.
In Economic terms, it will be equivalent to risk Hedging, expanding your operations to make them more location resilient, Back up resilient, Earthquake, Flood, Tsunami resilient .
Make your business diverse in a true sense. You don’t make your company, organization diverse in the true sense by hiring an African, but you do so my setting up operations in Africa
ZOHO, an Indian Startup, has set the Example. Now if Paytm, or other Indian and Global companies,can start going back to Small towns and start creating Micro Networks. That could be a great start.
Google, Apple will learn eventually. But the World Should move to the SBGB model. This search for MEGA solutions in the name of competitive advantage has screwed world, environment, Water bodies, Jungles, in ways that we cant even imagine.
It’s time to Bio Mimic Nature and create our lives, businesses, energy systems, livelihoods around it.