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Exploring the Far-Reaching Impacts of Climate Change on Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan

MY HOPE

                               “ My Hope ” March is coming ! It will be spring once again, a time for new life, new understanding.  It will be yet another opportunity to come together as people of planet Earth to explore our relationship with our planet and with one another. Yet, I am really confused about what is happening in our world. I am witnessing something that has me feeling sad, a little frustrated as a young person and sometimes even a little angry. I am seeing the death of humanity! I am questioning all that we are as human beings and I am desperately looking for signs that humanity still exists.  I am seeking evidence that there is hope for us as a species, as a people, as gift to the world. But as I look for such signs, I see signs of more hate, destruction and something I do not recognize, something I cannot yet name because I honestly do not understand how a species can allow its...

It is Better to be Safe than Sorry

    Who in their right mind would even consider living by such a so-called pearl of wisdom?  Is it not considered so? Then, tell me, how would we know anything about our world if everyone decided that was indeed better to be safe?  A ship in the harbor is safe but is that what why the ship was built??  Was it not the plan to leave the safety of the shore and sail into worlds unknown? If the ship leaves its safe haven it is certain that it may run into stormy weather and yes, there may be times when the captain will be sorry he ventured upon the open sea, but that was the purpose of the building of the ship. To go to undiscovered shores, to bring back treasures, to find new lands and people, to test the human spirit, to in search of a dream, to reach the unreachable - this was the purpose of the ship.  Nothing has changed since the beginning of time regarding this adventurous nature of men and women.  Now are we talking about reckless abandon? Indeed n...

Gilgit Baltistan Constitutional Status in United Nation and CPEC spectra