Articulating an opinion on these words is slippery. Separately, they have meanings in the deconstruction of places of different make-up.

Decolonization : seems all set for a past that is as treacherous as it is mythical now; it is an attempted surgery of an Alzheimer’s, extremely charged (almost brutal) in its attempts, but acted upon the blurred elements of our normalcy - from our aspirational language all the way to our very modes of working.

Decarbonization : seems all set for a future that seems as slanted as it is trendy now; it reads like a prescription by the disease for the diseased, extremely creative in projecting solutions within the tolerated ways of thinking. Whether it’s redrawing forests and rivers as entities for “protection” or tech-savvy resource management by rationing the legality of beings.

Although when spoken together it invokes hope - even if it is at the sight of some remembered decency in the hypocrite play of these words - for the future.