RE: [in-enaction] this we must do ... Professionally

I like petitions. I sign petitions. I start petitions. I use petitions.
But...

Clean politics concerns all, including urban professionals. So we can all
sign the clean-politics petition (if we think signing petitions help, have
nothing in principle against signing petitions, do not think the petition
is a hoax, etc, etc). And then? Hope someone somewhere who somehow needed
a referendum style confirmation will, once a magic number is crossed, go
and clean up politics?

Clean urban development politics also concerns all. Master Plans that will
guide the future of cities across the country are being revised in a
current climate of not-clean politics. No one has started a petition that
will tell urban professionals, in refrendum style, that their professional
services are needed today for tomorrow. Are we to wait for that? Or sign
and wait for the bigger clean-up and its trickle down effect to take care
of what is our clean-up responsibility?

For all that petitions can do, and they can, they alone cannot do. And
what we can do, only we can do, which is why we are the professionals, no?

Gita Dewan Verma / Planner