The Mongolian cabinet had met somewhere in Gobi desert. This was done to highlight the extreme consequences of climate change. Some time back, the Maldives cabinet held a meeting beneath the sea to make the same point — how as a result of rising sea levels caused by climate change, the archipelago will be inundated. Perhaps the Mongolians are making the other point that due to the rise in temperatures, desertifaction will be the undeserved dessert for that landlocked country.
The stranger the better. That seems to be the leitmotif of novel ways of making a point. The climate apocalypse is a potent portent. It is not just the professional alarmists who are shouting from the rooftops about impending doom. Politicians do not like to be left behind in this game of grabbing public attention. Politicians in Maldives and Mongolia have set the trend. Those in the rest of the world will have to rack their brains to think of other, arresting ways of making the point.
Those who detest politicians, and there is much justification in the popular revulsion for the tribe, will have to concede that they do think hard of ways to attract attention. Yes. It is true that this is an infantile compulsion, but that is the name of the game. Of course, these are indeed empty gestures. But that is being a spoilsport. Let politicians enjoy their momentary one-upmanship.
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