Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Aug 30: Major General (Retd) Vinod Saighal delivered a lecture on “The Paris Climate Accord: Fragilities and the Global Equipoise” under the Eminent Lecture Series at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University.
The talk was primarily a gist of his famous book `The Third Millennium Equipoise’. He covered the two most critical issues “Existential threats for the coming generations towards the zero nuclear state’ and ‘Global warming & climate change’.
He argued that one of the most imminent threats to human existence is not even global warming & climate change but possibility of a nuclear war which can annihilate humanity immediately. Most alarmingly, the world leadership is not taking responsibility and working towards the solution of the problem, he further said and warned that the over-consumption will lead to the complete damage of the biocapacity of the planet earth and an insensitive leadership may push the world in a nuclear war. “No need to mention that both the factors are threat to the existence of life as such on the earth. It is therefore incumbent on the present generation to think of the intergenerational benefits for the sustenance of life in future,” he stressed.
The lecture was followed by an interactive session. The session was chaired by Dr S S Soodan, Professor Emeritus and Advisor, Acharya Sri Chander Medical College and Hospital and president of Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD).
Dr Varun Kumar Tripathi, HoD, Department of Philosophy and Culture, presented welcome address. The lecture was attended by faculty and students of the University.
Dr Neera Singh, Coordinator IDPD, Prof V Verma, Dean Faculty of Engineering, Dr A K Das, Vinod Sharma, Administrative Officer, Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Dr Anil Kumar Tewari, S S Sharma, Dr M M Chaturvedi, Dr Ashoka Tarai and Dr Surendra Singh were also present on the occasion.
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