Whether it is your home, Business or Store, your City, State, your Country or the EARTH, you end up paying severe penalties for avoiding corrective measures at the right time.

Recent blackout of most of the East Coast of the USA is a case in point. Timely upgrades of Power Plants were put off. Action on harnessing Alternative Energy Resources like Solar Power, Wind Power, and Hydrogen Fuel Cells that could lead to Energy Independence, had not begun.

Several decades of growing inequality between the richest and the poorest nations - climbing from 1:18 to 1:37 - has generated tension in parts of the world. The specter of a cataclysmic disaster haunts the individual. The trend must be speedily reversed, the threat to subside. Time to act so that we don't pay a price for deferred action.

By Pervaiz Lodhie (email : plodhie@ledtronics.com)