The Change Makers (Part V)

The Human Touch contd...

Climate change is not something local or regional phenomenon. So the solution also has to be of the global nature. Given the enormity of the situation and the hold of the rich and the interest of the bourgeois it is necessary that it involve the youth and the old, the masses and the classes, the politicians and the voters, the rich and the poor. The responsibility has to be of everybody, the battle at every step. Everyone has to be the leader and the follower. No one state or institution can keep a watch on whether you are sincere or not.

Life has to be made simple and original in harmony with the laws of the nature. It has to be a moral responsibility, a duty, a mission, a passion. It has to be the fight between the right and the wrong, between the rights of the humanity and the elites. It has to be a fight for what Rothkopf says a uniform global culture. Sustainability not greed has to be the essential component of any economic order.

This war will have to be of every Delhi, every Durban, every London and every Washington. The world needs to listen to the cries of extinction and death, of rivers and mountains, trees and vegetations, birds and other animal species, soil and the air, life and death.

The world needs to understand climate change has caused migration, and cultural separation, population dislocation and the collapse of ancient cultures. We can’t allow this to happen this time.

The year 2009 would be critical for reaching international agreement on efforts to tackle climate change. We will have the opportunity to rewrite man’s destiny when signatories to the UN Climate Change Convention meet in Copenhagen.

The role of India would be equally significant. Though it’ not a developed economy it is the third biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world after China and the United States. India emits 638,000,000 tons of CO2 every year. The argument that we are a developing country and we a chance to pollute the atmosphere is hollow because it’s not that the poor of this country are polluting. It is being by the corporations and the Navratnas (the nine most profitable companies that the government owns) of the Government of India who has been raking billions of rupee as profit. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) alone spews 186,000,000 tons which constitutes about 30% of the total gas release. 16 power plants, operated by NTPC, are in Centre for Global Development's (CGD) “Red Alert”. China has already surpassed the US as the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 from power generation. South Africa is among the world’s top-ten power sector emitter in absolute terms.

Given all these phenomenal contribution it is ridiculous if they continue to give such logic. The youth are playing and will have to play further significant role in making the government realise that the responsibility can’t be done away with.