New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- A single hand rises in the United Nations Security Council. That was on 18 September 2025. With that gesture, a call for a ceasefire is silenced. That image is now seared into our collective consciousness. A lifeline for millions, is vetoed by a single hand. We watch and we despair over the system overriding humanity's conscience. We see this act of geopolitical paralysis. It is a failure of humanity, a triumph of self-absorption over our planetary survival.

But this is merely a rehearsal for a far greater, more silent tragedy. We are all-every one of us-participating in a slower, more devastating veto. Not in a glittering chamber in New York, but in the boardrooms, legislative halls, and daily choices of our natio...