Reporting climate change in India
Responding to climate change in India is a far cry and any supportive step will be a drop in ocean. The reality of continuing and approaching danger of climate change is sidelined in the vote-bank politics and also an indeferent populace. As long as people in India believe that water is always free and one has unfeterred freedom to pollute and defile the earth: and above all politicians use this cultural maldy purely for vote, there appears little likelyhood any change in this scenario. Scanning events /conferences of UNFCC, IISD, UNIDO, etc one hardly finds any meaningful participation from India, eventhough Dr. Pachaury continues to lead the most prestigious Institute. This is so because nothing is going on in India on climate channge. While countries are talking about zero carbon economies India is either basking on its new status of BRIC membership, or engaged in futile politicate slander. To me the followings are immediately required:
Vigorous networking , particularly with the youth to start Anna Hazare like revolution on corruption. In fact India's second biggest problem after corruption is deforrestation and land degradation.
Persuade political masters to use NREGA primarily for land recovery through plantation, water shed management and the similar.
Launch major solar power stations. Mr. Clinton's offer for a 5000MW solar plant along Gujurat at a cost of Rs 20000 crore is no longer heard of, or at least the public is unaware of its progress.
It is a fresh wind to see bloggers like Ms Patnaik taking initiative on this important and critical subject.
Thursday 27 October 2011
Reporting climate change in India
Reporting climate change in India
Responding to climate change in India is a far cry and any supportive step will be a drop in ocean. The reality of continuing and approaching danger of climate change is sidelined in the vote-bank politics and also an indeferent populace. As long as people in India believe that water is always free and one has unfeterred freedom to pollute and defile the earth: and above all politicians use this cultural maldy purely for vote, there appears little likelyhood any change in this scenario. Scanning events /conferences of UNFCC, IISD, UNIDO, etc one hardly finds any meaningful participation from India, eventhough Dr. Pachaury continues to lead the most prestigious Institute. This is so because nothing is going on in India on climate channge. While countries are talking about zero carbon economies India is either basking on its new status of BRIC membership, or engaged in futile politicate slander. To me the followings are immediately required:
Vigorous networking , particularly with the youth to start Anna Hazare like revolution on corruption. In fact India's second biggest problem after corruption is deforrestation and land degradation.
Persuade political masters to use NREGA primarily for land recovery through plantation, water shed management and the similar.
Launch major solar power stations. Mr. Clinton's offer for a 5000MW solar plant along Gujurat at a cost of Rs 20000 crore is no longer heard of, or at least the public is unaware of its progress.
It is a fresh wind to see bloggers like Ms Patnaik taking initiative on this important and critical subject.
Responding to climate change in India is a far cry and any supportive step will be a drop in ocean. The reality of continuing and approaching danger of climate change is sidelined in the vote-bank politics and also an indeferent populace. As long as people in India believe that water is always free and one has unfeterred freedom to pollute and defile the earth: and above all politicians use this cultural maldy purely for vote, there appears little likelyhood any change in this scenario. Scanning events /conferences of UNFCC, IISD, UNIDO, etc one hardly finds any meaningful participation from India, eventhough Dr. Pachaury continues to lead the most prestigious Institute. This is so because nothing is going on in India on climate channge. While countries are talking about zero carbon economies India is either basking on its new status of BRIC membership, or engaged in futile politicate slander. To me the followings are immediately required:
Vigorous networking , particularly with the youth to start Anna Hazare like revolution on corruption. In fact India's second biggest problem after corruption is deforrestation and land degradation.
Persuade political masters to use NREGA primarily for land recovery through plantation, water shed management and the similar.
Launch major solar power stations. Mr. Clinton's offer for a 5000MW solar plant along Gujurat at a cost of Rs 20000 crore is no longer heard of, or at least the public is unaware of its progress.
It is a fresh wind to see bloggers like Ms Patnaik taking initiative on this important and critical subject.
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