A land where wealth buys health (Part 1) on October 17, 2020Martin Luther King, Jr. said that, ‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman’. Consider the following – in 2018, the total life expectancy at birth in the Central African Republic was 53 years, whereas in Hong Kong SAR, China – it was 85 years. In a […]
Energy – The culprit and rescuer (Part 2) on October 2, 2020Target 7.2 obligates us to substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. It is noteworthy to mention here that Pakistan has been working towards Alternative and Renewable Energy (ARE). In this regard, it is well known that conventional technologies such as coal-fired power plants utilize tons of water […]
Energy – The culprit and rescuer (Part 1) on September 30, 2020Nobel Laureate, Richard Smalley, listed some problems which are relevant to the operations of society, and placed energy at the top – even above a society’s predicaments of food, population and poverty. The vicious cycles which surround the energy paradigm in Pakistan can be summarized through three major bottlenecks – firstly, there is a demand-supply […]