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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The path to an ecological civilization is paved by reclaiming the commons—our common home, the Earth, and the commons of the Earth family, of which we are a part. Reclaiming the commons and creating an ecological civilization go hand in hand.
In 2014, the Union environment ministry agreed with an expert recommendation that HEPs shouldn’t be erected in paraglacial zones.
A momentous statement has just been published in the British medical journal The Lancet and in 200 other health journals. It says, “We are united in recognizing that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies will reverse our current trajectory.”
Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.
This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate last burst of fossil fuel exploitation.
Scientists have spent decades writing papers, advising government, briefing the press, regarding the climate crisis: all have failed. Now, they need to wage a rebellion… They must do whatever is possible to halt the greatest destruction in human history.
The people of Kendrapada district of Odisha are fighting peacefully to save their river Kharasrota, the lifeline of farmers and fishing communities living besides the river. In the name of providing drinking water to Bhadrak district, the state govt is seeking to divert its water to Adani Ports and SEZ.
Will a rising sea submerge India’s coastal cities and villages in the future? Will climate change affect our monsoon, and the floods and droughts linked to it?
Will the three ministries – environment, power, jal shakti – who approved these contentious projects, be held accountable for any future ecological disaster?
I am tired of being told that this world I was handed is irrevocably broken. I understand that the climate leaders from generations past are tired too, and that the decades of work have disheartened some. The youth climate movement deserves hope and optimism regardless.
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