Droughts and desertification as impact of climate change
Droughts have been a cause of concern in all part of the world for centuries. There are references for the same in the holy texts such as the holy Torah, the Bible and the holy Qur’an. Yusuf/Joseph, the youngest son of Yaqoob/Jacob, the messenger of Allah/God has recorded to have advised the king of Egypt for preparing for the drought years on the basis of a dream that the King saw and mentioned to former prisoner living with Joseph (peace be upon him). King acted upon the interpretation of his dream provided by Joseph (peace be upon him) and prepared for 7 years of drought. Similarly, desertification has been a process that has been recorded as one of the process that has been on in various parts of world. Droughts are marked by the absence of rain or inadequate rain that is responsible for loss of crops or inadequate crop yield causing a serious concern for food. Desertification is linked with loss of agricultural habitats. The loss of agricultural lands, forest cover is an outcome of globalisation of industrial production processes based on non-renewable resources based resources. Climate change is an outcome of the globalisation of non-renewable resource based urban habitats. Drought is, among other factors, responsible for soil degradation. It has been also established that desertification increases the effect of green house gas emissions. There is thus a relation of cause and effect between climatic change and desertification.
The focus of the youth position paper on drought and desertification therefore is on the following:
1. Assessment of responses to climate change are being made,
2. assessments of the instruments for mitigating the impacts of climates,
3. hurdles faced in the implementation of the Kyoto protocol emission targets
4. Constraints in the development strategy and proposal for ecologically sustainable development strategy
5. Call for adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework for ecologically sustainability and socially equity
6. Innovative faith based strategies
7. Youth Strategies
Change in the climate with rise in temperature of earth, change in rainfall patterns is caused due to emission of green house gases that raise the temperature of earth as the amount of green house gases generated is much more than the capacity of the green cover for absorbing. Impacts of the climate change are being felt everywhere beyond the national boundaries. There are several recorded evidences that has caused nations to take on the challenge of global warming .UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change has been meeting and deliberating on the issue. There are several national responses and international agreements. Recently China and U.S. has expressed agreement to work on climate change. Speaking on occasion of APEC summit in Sydney, Australia Mr. Hu Jintao maintained that “the United Nations Framework convention should remain the main channel for the international efforts” to address climate change” .
The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which emphasised the far-reaching consequences that continued global warming would have across the world, has given fresh impetus to finding solution to the problem. The summit meeting of the Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8) held in Germany in the month of June 2007 agreed to launch new initiatives for collective action by both rich nations and fast-growing developing countries to combat climate change. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC, the international body that has the task of weighing scientific evidence on climate change, pointed to definitive evidence that global atmospheric concentration of key greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide had “increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750”. These gases were trapping the Earth’s heat that would otherwise have radiated out into space. If the build-up of greenhouse gases and the resultant warming of the planet were allowed to continue unchecked, the humanity collectively will have to face several consequences. Droughts and desertification are among the impacts of climate change. The position paper is focusing on the challenges and offers solutions for halting the impacts of climate change through adoption of measures including the faith based personal responses for transformation of ecologically hostile consumption, production and leisure use patterns.
Progress so far
Lots of seminars and conferences have been organized for addressing the global challenge. There are Kyoto protocol emission targets for which national strategies have been devised. Kyoto Protocol formally known as UN Framework Conventions on Climate Change has not been ratified by some of the important nations. U.S. and Australia are not ratifying the protocol as they have perceptions of competitive disadvantage. There are agreements for reducing the emissions by the year 2020 and 2050. There exists a vibrant mobilization of civil society and mobilization of youth groups. Several groups are working for the policy advocacy for implementing the binding targets for the emission of green house gases. There also exists a dynamic policy advocacy for R&D in renewable energy so that there is plenty of renewable resource based energy for replacing the non-renewable energy. Green parties existing in more than 88 countries are calling for replacement for greenhouse generating fossil fuel based energy sources with renewable energy.
UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been awarded Nobel Prize along with Robert Al Gore for working on the climate change. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the recipients “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man made climate change and to lay foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such a change” . Mr .Al Gore responded to the citation saying “we face a truly planetary emergency: the climate change is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all humanity” . Mr.R.K. Pachaury sharing the prize with Robert Al Gore as Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on climate change responded that the Nobel Peace prize would add sense of urgency to the fight against global warming. IPCC, set up in 1988, is tasked with giving policymakers a summary of the latest knowledge about climate change. Gavin Edwards head of Climate and Energy Campaign, Greenpeace International talking about what the governments across the world can do to mitigate the problem pointed out the need to reconsider terms of protocol that acknowledges the differentiated responsibility for the various nations responding to the climate change. He points out the need for the developing countries to do all the needful and not repeat the mistakes of the developed countries - “nongovernmental organisations have really focussed on the industrialised nations that have to do lion’s share of tackling the climate change-that’s clear. But what is also clear is that developing countries like India and China constantly continue developing with the business as usual old style development approach. They could be repeating the same mistakes the West has made in the last few decades .And, if India, China and other countries continue to make those mistakes, then regardless of what the West is doing to tackle the climate change it will be impossible” .
The instruments advocated for mitigating the climate change
Energy efficient technologies are being developed for minimizing the consumption of the energy. CFL lamps are being promoted as part of energy efficient utilities and equipments for contributing in the reduction of green house gas emissions. There also goals for replacement of non-renewable energy throng renewable energy .Green party in Germany seek full scale replacement of non-renewable energy by renewable energy by the year 2020. There are treaties that have been signed though they are not religiously followed. More funding is being sought for research for globalizing renewable energy based services and utilities. Binding targets on emission reduction is not there as is evident from the aspirational recommendation of the APEC summit concluded recently in Sydney as part of the processes for the UN framework convention on climate change to be held in Bali in the month of December 2007. There are plans of Action devoid of binding policies and target for the emission of green house gases.
If the build-up of greenhouse gases and the resultant warming of the planet was allowed to continue unchecked, we will collectively have consequences in terms of the loss of the ecologically sustainable livelihoods, habitats, crop failures, inequitable distribution of the ecologically safe habitats across the world. It is well-known that global economic boom is accelerating green house gas emissions with the ever expanding non-renewable energy based urban habitats, consumption, production and transport patterns.
Problems in the strategies
There are strategies that have been identified with global recognition of the need to reduce green house emissions. Even so, they get defeated as goals are set with contradicting outcomes and visions .For example, GDP calculation does not consider the impact on environment and ecological costs and thus are not therefore factors in the calculation of Gross Domestic Product. Enormous costs on environments are ignored following the conviction that all the resources are for the use and their non-utilisation is an indicator of low technological development. An ecologically sustainable habitat is not considered valuable with ecologically sustainable livelihoods. Quarterly reporting on the increase in the GDP does not factor the increase in green house gas emissions. 7th Generation Initiative in Canada with wellbeing measurement Act in an initiative for factoring the ecological costs and cost of women's work at home
www.sustainwellbeing.net . They believe that calculation of gross domestic product must include the cost on the environment that our actions in the present have
www.sustainwellbeing.net. Mike Nickerson and Joe Jordon have been campaigning for years.
Political parties continue to be inspired by short term visions and it is not quite their fault. SIMPOL is working with the voters globally for influencing the simultaneous adoption of policies. There is need to ensure more and more simultaneous actions globally for peaceful actions, decisions, choices that will contribute in collective ecological safety. Political parties need to be educated for supporting the policies that ensure protection of ecologically sustainable livelihoods and habitats. Labour League Foundation ,Sufi Trust and CEASIG as part of National Forum of Forest Workers and Forest People supporting the rights of land in their traditional habitats through deleting the impact of colonial legislations that deprived them their rights to homestead and agriculture lands. Green parties are concerned about the ecologically safe issues but their voters are few .Most of the political parties are concerned with issues that are more appealing to the elite and the middle class in the immediate present.
Another major hurdle experienced in the way of getting global responses for mitigating the climate change is continued marketing of fossil fuel intensive consumption patterns, urban habitats designs, development paradigm, competitive nationalisms for seeking the markers of fossil fuel intensive lifestyles, devaluation of the ecologically sustainable agriculture consumption patterns. There exists continued political support for cultural products and processes that are inimical to national and global ecological safety. While there are measures for ecological impact/ environment impact assessments but then there markedly exists absence of concerns for addressing the root causes of ecological and man made disasters. Marginalisation of the faith based youth groups by the atheistic intelligentsia continues to be problem that needs to be addressed .They need to be brought on board .
Ecologically safe national strategy/ development paradigm
Considering the above, it is proposed that an ecologically safe national strategy/ development paradigm contains the following features:
1. Marketing of ecologically safe consumption ,production, leisure use patterns
2. Discouraging ecologically hostile consumption and production patterns
3. Promotion of neighbourhood trade and education and discouraging ecologically hostile trade and education
4. Ecologically sustainable agriculture
5. Promotion of ecologically sustainable transport Systems
6. Faith based measures for transformation of leisure use pattern
7. Promotion and protection of ecologically sustainable habitats
8. ecologically safe interest free and debt free finance system
9. Ecologically safe models of success
Towards a solution
Reduction in the emission of green house gases through promoting measures and decision patterns that moderate the consumption of services and utilities based on the consumption of green house emitting fossil fuels is critical that all concerned with safeguarding the humanity from the negative impacts of climate change, minimising the incidence of drought and halting the expansion of deserts and preventing the loss of ecologically sustainable habitats and livelihoods. Considering the emergencies, it is argued that adoption of faith based measures for transforming leisure use patterns is considered on priority. Following diagram demonstrates the impact and relations that adoption of prayer and meditation 5 times a day on the consumption patterns.
Men and women following the commands for prayer and meditation 5 times a day are not likely to indulge in consumption of lots of evening post work engagements that require long distance travels as this would interfere in observance of the command for prayer /salah /meditation /yoga at the appointed hours. It can be easily seen that adoption of this command will ensure transformation of lots of consumption of fossil fuel intensive leisure such as going to bar and dancing halls. This can be adopted along with several other personal and community responses for reducing the emission of green houses. Faith based responses appear to be more effective and they need to be promoted as for this there is no need to make additional efforts. Association of ‘conservatism’ appears to be more one of the response that some men and women may have for communication of faith based measures. But then it is important to see the importance of the adoption of faith based measure for ecological efficacy, safety, suitability, desirability and validity. Faith based responses are common and they just need to be promoted for their contribution in the ecological wellbeing at the personal, community, social, national and global levels. There is an urgent need for the same.
Personal faith based responses
Prayer 5 times a day for transforming leisure use pattern recognising that leisure use patterns are one of the key social engagements that consume most of the fossil fuel based services and utilities .Command for prayer is common across the religious texts though it appears most prominently practiced by men and women following the communications of Muhammad, believed to be the last messenger by Muslims (men and women submitting to the will of God/Allah/../.
How adoption of prayer transform the consumption patterns and ecologically hostile travel intensive leisure use patterns
Men and women practicing prayer (salah in Arabic) do not visit dancing halls and bars as they are more concerned about praying in time. Prayer in the morning, afternoon, after sunset and then prayer after dinner in the homes/ mosques/ churches/synagogue/ prayer and meditation halls/work place makes them bound to focus on the necessary work only. Prayer and remembrance for them is a mean of relaxation, stress busting, socialization, and communion and so on. S/he concentrates on the essential matters in the neighbourhood and cares for them as commanded through the messengers. Secondly, they abstain from exhibitionist consumption following the command of God/ Allah for not transgressing the bounds/limits set by God/Allah. For dressing they believe that the best dress is that of piety determined by the extent to which they follow the commands of God/ Allah. They abstain from adultery following the commands against the same as they believe in upholding the best standards of piety. They seek forgiveness from God/Allah for the sinful deeds executed intentionally or unintentionally. Thus adoption of prayer 5 times a day works as a guard for all the behaviours that have been prohibited in the holy books across the religions.
They donate out of the sustenance for poor following the commands for donation/zakat, khairat, fitra and sadaqah/daan.. They do not waste and thus observe the best of the ideals communicated through the slogan of ‘waste not, want not’. They indulge in ecologically safe consumption and believe in moderation in all matters. The middle path communicated through the commands of God/Allah is best ensured through the adoption of compulsory prayers 5 times a day. Youth, Men and men following the commands in Shiv Sankalp Taru for remembrance of Ishwar are likely to have the similar best behaviour patterns that are ecologically safe. Their average ecological footprints are likely to be very low. This needs to be established with communication of more ecological audits/ water audits/green audits/ energy audits/ paper audits/ food intake audits- a series of audits that youth, men and women following the command of God/Allah perform or they are supposed to perform. They ensure more and more pious behaviour, consumption and production patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit, Inclusion and Governance along with many organisations call for generation of more pious responses as they are directly linked to reduction in the emission of green house gases .
Inter faith commons
The inter faith commons need to be communicated and disseminated for not only global integration but also for addressing the critical ecological challenge that we as part of humanity face . Global warming is no longer a concern of a particular nations but it is an issue that we all as part of humanity face. Inter faith commons bring to the fore the understanding that we have common monotheistic content and messengers who upheld the best standards of justice, communication, and struggle in their life time and fought men and women after utilizing the best means of persuasion. Shiv Sankalp Taru has a very interesting verse that needs to be brought in light for men and women who have special affinity for the Sanskrit textual tradition. The timings are very much common to the timing followed by the Muslims. It is a command that needs to be followed by all. Muslim youths, men and women already follow that following the communication of God/BRAHMM communicated through the last messenger while believing that commands were communicated through all the messengers earlier in various languages and lands. The commands followed by Muslims are the commands that were communicated through the earlier messengers were sent to all the lands to people who spoke various languages following the related verse in the holy Qur’an. Commands in Shiv Sankalp Taru “Ishwar smarate panch awasare” calls for remembrance of Ishwar who was neither born nor gave on five occasions in a day, every day-all the 365/366 days of the year.
Command for establishing prayer at the appointed hours exists in the Holy Qur’an. According to one count there are command for establishing salah and give zakat more that 54 times in the holy Qur’an. There are commands in Bible and Torah. Buddhist monotheistic tradition calls for fighting the ‘mara’ in the Dhammapada and the atheistic understanding calls for adoption of middle path in all the matters. Practice of meditation leads to transformation of consumption patterns. Gurus in the Sikhism and Jain traditions are examples of austere life filled with prayer and penance. Guru Nanak was a practitioner of prayer and remembrance and he is revered for that and followed by millions of Sikhs around the world. For Sikhs, it is not impossible to follow the best practices of Guru Nanak who established himself as a role model for millions of Sikhs around the world. Following table shows the interfaith commons that can be adopted by all. This is being proposed considering the absence of coherent strategy in the atheistic post-modern discourse and contingencies of the global emergencies that must be addressed.
Some key ecologically sensitive commands Islam Christianity Brahmanism Sikhism Judaism Buddhism Jainism
Prevention of usury √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Prohibition of adultery and homosexuality √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Propagation of austerity √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Protection of the institution of family √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for donating for the poor √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for prayer √ √ √ √ √ √ √
How an ecologically sustainable / contended reverent economy is built up with happiness for all
Ecological economists are currently debating issues with the Washington consensus economist and fighting the TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome .Noam Chomsky believes in the alternative economic order and so do youths of the world who through their calls are wanting to see the change and taking up non-violent advocacy and communication for the needful change . He also believes in the alternative political and cultural order .Binary economists are calling for abolition of interest charged on the loans as they believe creation of money from thin air in the books of the bankers is responsible for lots of ecologically hostile and socially inequitable practices in consumption, production and distribution and leisure use patterns
www.binaryeconomics.org .
Elimination of usury, fiat money propelling the ecologically hostile growth of urban habitats is being pointed out to be a critical factor in building a socially inclusive and ecologically safe economy. Similarly, debt free credit /interest free loans are being promoted for zero debt distressed suicides and bankruptcies.
Another major feature of contented and ecological sustainable economy is its capacity and intent for the protection of ecologically sustainable habitats with renewable resource based life support systems. It is simply impossible to envisage sustainability of non-renewable based transport systems in perpetuity. Search for nuclear energy and intense research activity in the renewable resource based energy is a proof for this. It needs to be noted that while nuclear energy in the short run appears to be carbon neutral, but in the long run, this is also not sustainable as there are limited resources for running the reactors. It is clear that resources such as uranium and thorium are not for all the time in the future. Therefore, the only solution is to decelerate and regulate the consumption of non-renewable resource based services and utilities through instituting an ecologically sustainable economy with the following features:
1.Debt free money and interest free loans with public control on the creation of money
2.Rights to renewable resource based habitats
3.Ecologically sustainable leisure use patterns
4.Distributive justice for renewable resource based livelihoods
5.Freedom from worried of energy crisis
6.Protection of Renewable resource based livelihoods
Freedom from worries of energy crisis affecting energy intensive transportation systems and habitats is an essential constituent of an ecologically sustainable and socially equitable economy .At present most of the planners are concerned with the increasing energy requirements and for this some countries are ready to sacrifice their ideals and foundations of foreign policy. Left parties in India along with other parties have been vociferously opposing the loss of independence in the foreign policy of India. It is important to ensure sustainability for the renewable resource based life support systems and for this it is important to halt the loss of ecologically sustainable habitats and agricultural production methodologies. It is not possible to ensure sustainability for habitat designs that are based on unsustainable energy sources. Therefore, it is not possible to ensure sustainability for skyscraper laden urban habitats. Urban areas with energy intensive shopping malls need to be brought within ecologically sustainable limits. For this to happen, it is important to support adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework.
Youths as drivers of change processes and communication for transition to ecologically safe life support systems locally and globally
Creating debt free money and ensuring interest free loans in not quite easy as that requires change of hearts and minds of men and women governing the various institutions who find the proposals difficult. Success of the proposals for ecologically sustainable and socially equitable economy and polity requires multiplication of men and women who uphold the criterion of piety. It is important that the pious men and women across the world prohibiting peacefully what is wrong and prescribing what is right take charge of the governance and ensure that debt free money is created, faith based measures are adopted for mitigating the impacts of climate change. It is important to understand the need to prepare for life after death as that would impel men and women to adopt faith based measures more and more. Now, the signs of ecological distress are too compelling to avoid collective and personal actions for both mitigating and halting the impacts of climate change. Signs of ecological distress affecting the lives of billions call for taking corrective action locally and globally. Youths and corporations who are market for non-renewable energy intensive services and utilities need to be in charge. Atheistic postmodernist laissez faire regimen of cultural, political and moral governance needs to be critically reviewed as they damage the survival interests of the billions in here and now and that of future generations.
Hurdles in the way/ constraints
There are hurdles in the way for such a massive change taking place simultaneously and globally and most pernicious among the faith based notions are that of neo-liberal atheistic ideology where market and profit devoid of the concerns of eternal interests of mankind are permitted to have full freedom. It is dominance of atheistic neo-liberal ideology that prevents men and women from adopting the faith based pious measures for addressing the global and local challenges. Media channels such as MTV with adoring participation of youths indoctrinated in the atheistic visions of good life are busy in creating models of copy cat consumption and leisure use patterns globally with local vernacular channels following in line. Starting with English music content in 90’s now MTV has more of Hindi songs and dance forms with direct message for youths for copying the ecologically leisure use pattern including partying ,dancing and drinking of intoxicating drinks.
The second hurdle is the lack on coherent national and international policy with respect to addressing the climate change. While Kyoto protocol emission target call for reduction in the emission of green house gases, national development strategies continue to be inspired by the perception of competitive disadvantage. It is dangerous to have such incoherence for long time as the assessments of climate scientists are too compelling. Speaking on the occasion of a meeting to the launch the full report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of global warming, Professor Martin Parry, a climate scientist with MET office in UK and co-chairman of the working group for the report said, “We are all used to talking about the impact of these changes coming in the lifetime of our children and grand children. Now we know that it is us.” He added that politicians had wasted a decade in focussing on ways to cut emissions, and had woken up recently to the need to adapt. He felt that “mitigation has got all the attention, but we cannot mitigate out of this problem. We have now a choice between a damaged world and a severely damaged world”. (The Hindu 20 September 2007)
The hurdle can be seen through assessing the levels of convergence for the various agencies and their functioning. While there are calls for higher rates of growth, they are not assessed in the light of the demands of ecological sustainability. Even the promotion of indexes such as “sustainability index” is not getting the required attention and it has been left to the discretion of the nations. There are evidences of lack of interagency cooperation and United National Development Programme (UNDP) appears to be working against the mandate of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Environment assessments /ministries are slighted for benefiting ecologically hostile proposals/ policies. More often than not considerations of ecological sustainability are ignored for sanctioning ecologically hostile projects. This is evident from the sanction of Special Economic Zones despite the violent and non-violent resistance of farmers in India as they did not want to give up on their only source of ecologically sustainable livelihoods through farming. Committee for Campaign on National Himalayan Policy for the ecologically fragile Himalayan region in India has been calling for redefinition of development policy.
Therefore there is a need to institute a governance framework that is both ecologically safe and socially inclusive with reference to poor, old, children and women, ethnic and religious groups residing both in rural and urban habitats.
Labour League Foundation along with several youth led organisations considers the need for establishing ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance with the following features:
1.A governance that is cognizant of the needs of poor, rights of farmers and villages to ecologically sustainable livelihoods and habitats
2.Governance that eliminates fictitious inflationary money and usurious loans created from thin air and responsible for expansion of ecologically hostile habitats
3. Governance that promotes pious and ecologically safe consumption and production pattern
4.A government that plans for ecologically safe disaster free future for all
5.Governance that ensure ecologically safe distribution of natural resources
6.Governance that works for the interests of all
7.Governance that ensures policy making for the rights of children, future generations and poor
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Diagram-4
Represents the key features of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance
Youth strategies
1.Multiplication of carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions (CNNDs) across the cities and villages
These discussions initiated by youth and community elders in the neighbourhood where they gather for collective prayer, discussions and other social engagements. The recommendations of the discussions and simultaneous action compiled at various levels will be presented in the form of a memorandum to the local and world leader gathered in various summits and events accelerating the generation of ecologically safe survival and development policies and multiplication of ecologically safe survival policies. Local impacts will be generated through transformation of the leisure use pattern, consumption pattern, production systems ensuring minimisation of emission of green house gases and galvanising mass communication strategies for reduction in the personal contribution to the green house gases. The discussions on the urgency of reducing green house gases lead to the transformation of personal level consumption patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion and Governance (CEASIG), a Delhi based organisation believes that personal responses are critical for transformation of the consumption patterns. Unsustainable consumption patterns can be halted with the personal responses. Personal responses are always part of the global responses. Carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions (CNNDs) will multiply ecologically safe responses across the urban and rural areas.
2.Multiplication of ecologically safe responses through promotion of green journalism
Production of analytical and advisory outputs through journalists is critical and they are one of the major stakeholders in shaping the opinions, consumption patterns. Journalists writing on lifestyle can substantially influence the consumption pattern of people in the urban areas. They can help in shaping the tastes and defining the choices. Journalists are important is generating democratic consensus for halting unsustainable consumption patterns. In our times, journalists play a very critical and sometimes they are responsible for defining the social, cultural and political trends. Youth organisations call for securing the future of villages, children and future generations with ecologically sustainable habitats, consumption patterns while ensuring inter-species justice.
3.Catalysing green politics
Labour league Foundation and Centre for Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion and Governance along with many organisations globally will be supporting the process for open and transparent politics for instilling the importance of ecologically safe green ideals. Youth organisations will be organising meetings with the representatives of the various media organisations and political parties and seek inclusion of ecological considerations in editorial policies and election manifestoes. Media organisations need to be visionary organisations and help in the preparation for an emerging future bereft of petro-modern consumption, transport, habitat and production systems.
4.Transformation of leisure use patterns
Youth organisations and youth wish to realise the millennium development goals for eliminating the unsustainable consumption patterns and wish to do so through suggesting transformation of the leisure use pattern. Suggestions for adoption of faith based measures that are common across the religious texts need to be taken seriously as part of global cultural commons. As indicated through the diagrammatic representation of the impact of adoption of faith based measures, youths call for generating interfaith consensus for acting simultaneously for transforming the leisure use patterns.
5.Calculation of ecological footprints, eliminating ecological rucksacks, returning to the ecologically sustainable habitats of the past for securing the ecological safe future of children and future generations
Youth call for dissemination of the practice of measuring ecological footprints for getting the desired actions for reducing the number of decisions involving emission of green house gases. Similarly, awareness on the loss of rocks due to excessive mining is critical for eliminating the amount of ecological losses. It is critical to value the conventional housing designs that use mud, grass, bamboo and wood. The definition of poverty considering the possession of adobe dwellings as a sign of poverty needs to be revised.
6.Ecological Audit of the consumption processes and patterns
The ecological audit is a concept proposed by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam, the chairman of Labour League Foundation
http://muhammad_mukhtar_alam.tigblog.org .This needs to be used along with the calculation of ecological footprints, environment audit/ green audit for assessing the impact of various decision and consumption patterns. Globalisation of the ecological audit at all levels is needed for supporting ecologically sustainable consumption patterns. This is important for realising the millennium development goals for environment sustainability by the year 2015. It is proposed that reports on sustainability index are incorporated in the formulation of the ecologically safe development policy.
7.Ecological Audit of the production systems / patterns
Production processes need to be assessed for ecological sustainability. There are ecologically sustainable and unsustainable production processes. The workshops with corporations interested in realising the millennium development goals will be conducted for getting in the changes in production processes. Youths believe based on the predictions on the oil reserves that Petro-modern production systems do not have a long future. Reducing energy demand for ecologically unsustainable production, consumption patterns is critical for halting the expansion of deserts and regularisation of rainfalls.
8.Ecological Audit of the transport systems / patterns
Renewable resource based transport systems are sustainable and non-renewable resource based transport systems are not sustainable. Ecological Audit of the transport systems needs to be encouraged for all organisations and ministries dealing with transport. Minimising / Eliminating travel is critical for ecologically sustainable habitats. We need to prepare for the end of petro-modern age.
9.Ecological Audit of the leisure use patterns-
There are leisure use patterns that do not use green house gas producing fossil fuels and there are leisure use patterns that are based on renewable resources and that does not involve consumption of fossil fuels. Workshop with the neighbourhood discussion leaders and resident welfare associations needs to be conducted for necessary transformation of leisure use patterns. Children, youths and elders need to be encouraged to adopt faith based measures for relaxation and stress busting. There are several studies that have demonstrated the impact of prayer and meditation on stress levels. Ecological audit of the leisure engagements need to be supported for getting the desired response for reduction in the emission of green house gases through transformation of leisure use patterns.
10.Interfaith dialogue for addressing the climate change, farmer’s suicides, and social security for workers in unorganized sector and transforming finance sector
Appreciation of the common commands for prayer, donation, compassion, charity and prohibition of usury, adultery, and homosexuality is needed with wider dissemination of the same. Adoption of these commands addresses the challenge of climate change, ecologically hostile usurious system, AIDS and so on. Inter-faith dialogue will ensure generation of responses across the faith groups. Delhi has a vibrant culture of interfaith dialogue. Sant Rajinder Singh of Sawan Kripal Ashram has been conducting the same for many years. Youth organisation need to work independently or in collaboration with faith based organisations for generating more forums of interfaith dialogue.
11.National/ regional/ city/ village based conventions on Inter Faith common responses for addressing the climate change-
Governments need to be encouraged for holding national conventions for generating consensus for adoption of faith based measures for addressing the climate change. There are cultural responses for fighting the atheistic neo-liberal cultural trends emanating from Europe and copied by youth in the name of globalisation and modernity. National Convention will address the issue of climate change through adopting the interfaith commons while preserving religious diversity and ecologically sustainable dietary, sartorial, linguistic diversities.
12.Carbon neutral Youth colloquiums / meetings / Majlis-e-Naujawan/ Yuva Harit Bharat Sabha/../../
Youths propose globalisation of local efforts for contributing in the mitigation of the impacts of climate change. Governments recognise the critical role of youths as more and more organisations led by youths are involved in consultation. It is suggested that Green youth forums with vernacular names need to be formed and discussions be held with active government support for getting the desired response pattern for halting the expansion of unsustainable consumption pattern and leisure use pattern through adoption of faith based measures.
Conclusion:
Imagining the responses of the weaker species in the face of man made onslaughts on the non-renewable resources , many youths across the world recognise the threats represented through the expression of anguish of the billions of poor who are angry, dispossessed and seeking an end to the process of non-renewable resource based usurious finance fuelled expansion of consumption and production pattern that is causing serious loss of livelihood for millions across the Earth and call upon all the governments, civil society organisations, corporations engaged in ecologically hostile production processes to boycott the ecologically hostile usurious finance and prevent further loss of ecologically sustainable habitats that are an immediate outcome of the expansion of ecologically hostile non-renewable resource based habitats. Nations need to compete in establishing the models of ecologically safe economy, polity and culture. Youth of the world are ready to become a leader along with Muslims, Greens and men and women of the world who wish to halt the political expansion of the atheistic neo-liberal ideology that is responsible for exacerbating the ecological distress demonstrated through the increased incidence of drought and expansion of deserts causing suffering for millions. Adaptation is the weakest response and youths call for halting the negative impacts of climate change. Nothing is impossible.
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Les sécheresses et la désertification comme impact des sécheresses de changement
de climat ont été une cause de souci dans toute la partie du monde pendant des siècles. Il y a des références pour la même chose dans les textes saints tels que le Torah saint, la bible et le Qur saint'. Yusuf/Joseph, le plus jeune fils de Yaqoob/Jacob, le messager d'Allah/de Dieu a enregistré pour avoir conseillé le roi de l'Egypte pour se préparer aux années de sécheresse sur la base d'un rêve que le roi a vu et a mentionné à l'ancien prisonnier vivant avec Joseph (la paix soit sur lui). Le roi a agi sur l'interprétation de son rêve fourni par Joseph (la paix soit sur lui) et disposé pendant 7 années de sécheresse. De même, la désertification a été un processus qui a été enregistré en tant qu'un du processus qui a été dessus dans diverses régions de monde. Des sécheresses sont marquées par l'absence de la pluie ou de la pluie insatisfaisante qui est responsable de la perte de récoltes ou de rendement de récolte insatisfaisant causant une préoccupation profonde pour la nourriture. La désertification est liée avec la perte d'habitats agricoles. La perte de régions agricoles, couverture de forêt est des résultats de mondialisation des processus de production industrielle basés sur les ressources basées par ressources non-renouvelables. Le changement de climat est des résultats de la mondialisation des habitats urbains basés par ressource non-renouvelable. La sécheresse est, entre d'autres facteurs, responsables de la dégradation de sol. On l'a également établi que la désertification augmente l'effet des émissions de gaz vertes de maison. Il y a ainsi une relation de cause et d'effet entre le changement et la désertification climatiques.
Le centre du papier de position de la jeunesse sur la sécheresse et la désertification est donc sur ce qui suit :
1. L'évaluation des réponses au changement de climat sont faites,
2. évaluations des instruments pour atténuer les impacts des climats,
3. les obstacles faits face dans l'exécution de l'émission de protocole de Kyoto vise
4. Contraintes dans la stratégie et la proposition de développement pour la stratégie écologiquement soutenable 5
de développement. Réclamez l'adoption du cadre écologiquement sûr et socialement inclus de gouvernement pour écologiquement la durabilité et socialement les capitaux propres
6. La foi innovatrice a basé les stratégies
7. Stratégies de la jeunesse
Changez dans le climat avec l'élévation de la température de la terre, changement des modèles de précipitations est causé en raison de l'émission des gaz verts de maison qui soulèvent la température de la terre car la quantité de gaz verts de maison produits est beaucoup plus que la capacité de la couverture verte pour absorber. Des impacts du changement de climat sont sentis partout au delà des frontières nationales. Il y a plusieurs évidences enregistrées qui a fait prendre des nations le défi de .UN de chauffage global le panneau qu'intergouvernemental sur le changement de climat a été réunion et délibérer sur la question. Il y a plusieurs réponses nationales et accords internationaux. Récemment la Chine et les États-Unis a exprimé l'accord de travailler au changement de climat. Parlant occasionnellement du sommet d'APEC à Sydney, M. de l'Australie. Hu Jintao a maintenu que « la convention-cadre des Nations Unies devrait demeurer le canal principal pour les efforts internationaux » d'adresser le changement de climat ».
Le quatrième rapport d'évaluation du panneau intergouvernemental sur le changement de climat (IPCC), qui a souligné les conséquences de grande envergure qui ont continué le chauffage global auraient à travers le monde, a donné la nouvelle impulsion à trouver la solution au problème. La réunion au sommet du groupe de huit a industrialisé des pays (G8) tenus en Allemagne en mois du juin 2007 accepte de lancer de nouvelles initiatives pour l'action collective par des nations riches et des pays en voie de développement à croissance rapide pour combattre le changement de climat. Dans son quatrième rapport d'évaluation, l'IPCC, le corps international qui a le charger de peser l'évidence scientifique sur le changement de climat, dirigé à l'évidence définitive que la concentration atmosphérique globale de la serre chaude principale intoxique comme l'anhydride carbonique « avait augmenté nettement en raison des activités humaines depuis 1750 ». Ces gaz emprisonnaient la chaleur de la terre qui aurait autrement rayonné dehors dans l'espace. Si on permettait à l'l'habillage des gaz de serre chaude et le chauffage résultant de la planète de continuer non réprimé, l'humanité collectivement devra faire face à plusieurs conséquences. Les sécheresses et la désertification sont parmi les impacts du changement de climat. Le papier de position se concentre sur les défis et offre des solutions pour stopper les impacts du changement de climat par l'adoption des mesures comprenant les réponses personnelles basées par foi pour la transformation des modèles écologiquement hostiles d'utilisation de consommation, de production et de loisirs.
De progrès un bon nombre
jusqu'ici de conférences et de conférences ont été organisés pour adresser le défi global. Il y a des cibles d'émission de protocole de Kyoto pour lesquelles des stratégies nationales ont été conçues. Le protocole de Kyoto formellement connu sous le nom de conventions-cadres de l'ONU sur le changement de climat n'a pas été ratifié par certaines des nations importantes. LES États-Unis et l'Australie ne ratifient pas le protocole car ils ont des perceptions de disparité de concurrence. Il y a des accords pour réduire les émissions par l'année 2020 et 2050. Là existe une mobilisation vibrante de la société civile et mobilisation des groupes de la jeunesse. Plusieurs groupes travaillent pour la recommandation de politique pour mettre en application les cibles obligatoires pour l'émission des gaz verts de maison. Là existe également une recommandation dynamique de politique pour la R&D dans l'énergie renouvelable de sorte qu'il y ait d'abondance d'énergie basée de ressource renouvelable pour remplacer l'énergie non-renouvelable. Les parties vertes existant dans plus de 88 pays réclament le remplacement pour la serre chaude produisant des sources d'énergie basées de combustible fossile avec de l'énergie renouvelable.
Le panneau intergouvernemental de l'ONU sur le changement de climat a été attribué le prix Nobel avec Robert Al Gore pour travailler au changement de climat. Le Comité Nobel de Norvégien a cité les destinataires « pour que leurs efforts accumulent et de disséminent la plus grande connaissance au sujet du changement synthétique de climat et de créer des bases pour les mesures qui sont nécessaires pour contrecarrer un tel changement ». M. Al Gore a répondu à la citation disant que « nous faisons face à une urgence véritablement planétaire : le changement de climat n'est pas une question politique, c'est un défi moral et spirituel à toute l'humanité ». Mr.R.K. Pachaury partageant le prix avec Robert Al Gore pendant que le Président du panneau intergouvernemental sur le changement de climat répondait que le prix de paix Nobel ajouterait le sens de l'urgence au combat contre le chauffage global. IPCC, établi en 1988, est chargé avec donner à des décisionnaires un résumé de la dernière connaissance au sujet du changement de climat. Le chef de Gavin Edwards du climat et l'énergie font campagne, Greenpeace international parlant de ce que les gouvernements à travers le monde peuvent faire pour atténuer le problème ont précisé la nécessité de reconsidérer des limites du protocole qui reconnaît la responsabilité différenciée des diverses nations répondant au changement de climat. Il précise le besoin des pays en voie de développement de faire tout nécessaire et de ne pas répéter les erreurs des pays développés - « les organisations nonnes gouvernemental se sont vraiment concentrées sur les nations industrialisées qui doivent faire la part du lion d'aborder le climat changer-quest clair. Mais ce qui est également clair est celui les pays en voie de développement comme l'Inde et la Chine continuent constamment de se développer avec les affaires en tant que vieille approche habituelle de développement de modèle. Ils pourraient répéter les mêmes erreurs que l'ouest a faites dans les dernières décennies. Et, si l'Inde, la Chine et d'autres pays continuent à faire ces erreurs, puis indépendamment ce qui l'ouest fait pour aborder le changement de climat de lui soyez impossible ».
Les instruments préconisés pour atténuer les technologies de rendement optimum
de changement de climat sont développés pour réduire au minimum la consommation de l'énergie. Des lampes de CFL sont favorisées en tant qu'élément des utilités de rendement optimum et des équipements pour contribuer dans la réduction d'émissions de gaz vertes de maison. Là également les buts pour le remplacement de l'énergie non-renouvelable remplissent l'énergie renouvelable. Partie verte en remplacement complet de recherche de l'Allemagne d'énergie non-renouvelable par énergie renouvelable par l'année 2020. Il y a des traités qui ont été signé cependant eux ne sont pas religieusement suivis. Plus de placement est cherché pour la recherche pour généraliser des services basés et des utilités d'énergie renouvelable. Les cibles obligatoires sur la réduction d'émission n'est pas là de même qu'évident de la recommandation d'aspirational du sommet d'APEC conclu récemment à Sydney en tant qu'élément des processus pour la convention-cadre de l'ONU sur le changement de climat à tenir dans Bali en mois du décembre 2007. Il y a des plans d'action exempts de politiques et de cible obligatoires pour l'émission des gaz verts de maison.
Si on permettait à l'l'habillage des gaz de serre chaude et du chauffage résultant de la planète de continuer non réprimé, nous aurons collectivement des conséquences en termes de perte des vies écologiquement soutenables, habitats, les échecs de récolte, distribution injuste des habitats écologiquement sûrs à travers le monde. Il est bien connu que la perche économique globale accélère les émissions de gaz vertes de maison avec les modèles basés par énergie non-renouvelable jamais de extension d'habitats urbains, de consommation, de production et de transport.
Les problèmes dans les stratégies
là sont des stratégies qui ont été identifiées avec l'identification globale de la nécessité de réduire les émissions vertes de maison. Néanmoins, ils obtiennent défaits pendant que des objectifs sont fixés avec des résultats et des visions de contradiction. Par exemple, le calcul de PIB ne considère pas l'impact sur l'environnement et les coûts écologiques et n'est pas ainsi donc des facteurs dans le calcul du produit intérieur brut. D'énormes coûts sur des environnements sont ignorés après la conviction que toutes ressources sont pour l'usage et leur non-utilisation est un indicateur du bas développement technologique. Un habitat écologiquement soutenable n'est pas considéré valable avec des vies écologiquement soutenables. Rendre compte trimestriel en augmentation en PIB pas facteur l'augmentation des émissions de gaz vertes de maison. 7ème L'initiative de génération au Canada avec la Loi de mesure de bien-être dans une initiative pour factoriser les coûts écologiques et le coût de femmes travaillent à la maison
www.sustainwellbeing.net. Ils croient que le calcul du produit intérieur brut doit inclure le coût sur l'environnement ce nos actions dans le présent ont
www.sustainwellbeing.net. Mike Nickerson et Joe Jordon avaient fait campagne pendant des années.
Des parties politiques continuent à être inspirées par des visions à court terme et ce n'est pas tout à fait leur défaut. SIMPOL fonctionne avec les électeurs globalement pour influencer l'adoption simultanée des politiques. Il y a le besoin d'assurer de plus en plus des actions simultanées globalement pour des actions paisibles, décisions, les choix qui contribueront dans la sûreté écologique collective. Des parties politiques doivent être instruites pour soutenir les politiques qui assurent la protection des vies écologiquement soutenables et des habitats. La base de travail de ligue, la confiance de Sufi et les CEASIG en tant qu'élément du forum national des ouvriers de forêt et la forêt peuplent soutenir les droites de la terre dans leurs habitats traditionnels en supprimant l'impact des législations coloniales qui les ont privées leurs droites aux terres de ferme et d'agriculture. Des parties vertes sont préoccupées par les questions écologiquement sûres mais leurs électeurs sont peu. La plupart des parties politiques sont concernées par les questions qui sont plus attrayantes à l'élite et à la bourgeoisie dans le présent immédiat.
Un autre obstacle principal expérimenté de la manière d'obtenir des réponses globales pour atténuer le changement de climat est vente continue des modèles intensifs de consommation de combustible fossile, conceptions d'habitats urbains, le paradigme de développement, nationalismes concurrentiels pour chercher les marqueurs des styles de vie intensifs de combustible fossile, dévaluation des modèles écologiquement soutenables de consommation d'agriculture. Là existe soutien politique continu des produits culturels et processus qui sont hostiles à la sûreté écologique nationale et globale. Tandis qu'il y a des mesures pour des évaluations écologiques d'impact d'environnement d'impact mais là existe alors nettement absence des soucis pour adresser les causes de racine des désastres écologiques et synthétiques. La marginalisation des groupes basés par foi de la jeunesse par l'intelligentsia athée continue à être le problème qui doit être adressé. Ils doivent être apportés à bord.
Paradigme national écologiquement sûr de développement de stratégie
considérant ce qui précède, on lui propose qu'un paradigme national écologiquement sûr de développement de stratégie contienne les dispositifs suivants :
1. La vente de la consommation écologiquement sûre, production, utilisation de loisirs a modelé
2. Découragement des modèles écologiquement hostiles 3 de consommation et
de production. Promotion du commerce de voisinage et d'éducation et de décourager le commerce et l'éducation écologiquement hostiles
4. Agriculture écologiquement soutenable
5. Promotion des systèmes écologiquement soutenables 6
de transport. La foi a basé des mesures pour la transformation du modèle 7 d'utilisation
de loisirs. Promotion et protection des habitats écologiquement soutenables
8. système libre écologiquement sûr 9 exempt d'intérêts et de dette
de finances. Les modèles écologiquement sûrs du succès
vers une réduction
de solution de l'émission des gaz verts de maison en favorisant des mesures et des modèles de décision qui modèrent la consommation des services et des utilités basés sur la consommation de la maison verte émettant des combustibles fossiles est critique que tous concernés par sauvegarder l'humanité des impacts négatifs du changement de climat, réduisant au minimum l'incidence de la sécheresse et stoppant l'expansion des déserts et empêchant la perte d'habitats écologiquement soutenables et de vies. Vu les urgences, on lui discute que l'adoption de la foi a basé des mesures pour les modèles de transformation d'utilisation de loisirs est considérée sur la priorité. Le diagramme suivant démontre l'impact et les relations que l'adoption de la prière et de la méditation 5 chronomètre un jour sur les modèles de consommation.
Les hommes et les femmes suivant les commandes pour la prière et la méditation 5 chronomètre un jour ne sont pas susceptibles de se livrer à la consommation d'un bon nombre d'engagements de travail de poteau de soirée qui exigent des voyages de fond car ceci interférerait dans l'observance de la commande pour la prière /salah /meditation /yoga aux heures désignées. Il peut facilement voir que l'adoption de cette commande assurera la transformation d'un bon nombre de consommation des loisirs intensifs de combustible fossile tels qu'aller à la barre et aux halls dansants. Ceci peut être adopté avec plusieurs autres réponses personnelles et de la communauté pour réduire l'émission des maisons vertes. Les réponses basées par foi semblent être plus efficaces et elles doivent être favorisées quant à ceci il n'y a aucun besoin de faire des efforts additionnels. L'association du conservatisme de `' semble être plus un de la réponse que quelques hommes et femmes peuvent prendre pour la communication des mesures basées par foi. Mais alors il est important de voir l'importance de l'adoption de la mesure basée par foi pour l'efficacité, la sûreté, la convenance, les charmes et la validité écologiques. Les réponses basées par foi sont communes et elles doivent juste être favorisées pour leur contribution dans le bien-être écologique aux niveaux personnels, de la communauté, sociaux, nationaux et globaux. Il y a un besoin pressant de même chose.
La foi personnelle a basé la prière
de réponses 5 fois par jour pour le modèle de transformation d'utilisation de loisirs identifiant que les modèles d'utilisation de loisirs sont l'un des engagements sociaux principaux qui consomment la plupart des services basés et des utilités de combustible fossile. La commande pour la prière est commune à travers les textes religieux bien qu'elle semble le plus en évidence pratiquée par les hommes et des femmes suivant les communications de Muhammad, pensés pour être le dernier messager par Muslims (des hommes et des femmes soumettant à la volonté de Dieu/d'Allah. /.
Comment l'adoption de la prière transforment les modèles de consommation et les hommes intensifs et les femmes de modèles d'utilisation de loisirs
de voyage écologiquement hostile commettant la prière (salah en arabe) ne visitent pas les halls et les barres dansants pendant qu'ils davantage sont préoccupés par la prière à temps. La prière le matin, après-midi, après coucher du soleil et puis prière après dîner dans les halls de prière et de méditation des églises de mosquées de maisons/synagogue//lieu de travail les fait bondir au foyer sur le travail nécessaire seulement. La prière et le souvenir pour eux est un moyen de relaxation, d'effort éclatant, de socialisation, et de communion et ainsi de suite. Concentrés de S/he sur les sujets essentiels dans le voisinage et des soins pour eux comme commandé par les messagers. Deuxièmement, ils s'abstiennent de la consommation exhibitionniste suivant la commande de Dieu Allah pour ne pas transgresser l'établi de limites/limites de God/d'Allah. For dressing they believe that the best dress is that of piety determined by the extent to which they follow the commands of God/ Allah. They abstain from adultery following the commands against the same as they believe in upholding the best standards of piety. They seek forgiveness from God/Allah for the sinful deeds executed intentionally or unintentionally. Thus adoption of prayer 5 times a day works as a guard for all the behaviours that have been prohibited in the holy books across the religions.
They donate out of the sustenance for poor following the commands for donation/zakat, khairat, fitra and sadaqah/daan.. They do not waste and thus observe the best of the ideals communicated through the slogan of ‘waste not, want not’. They indulge in ecologically safe consumption and believe in moderation in all matters. The middle path communicated through the commands of God/Allah is best ensured through the adoption of compulsory prayers 5 times a day. Youth, Men and men following the commands in Shiv Sankalp Taru for remembrance of Ishwar are likely to have the similar best behaviour patterns that are ecologically safe. Their average ecological footprints are likely to be very low. This needs to be established with communication of more ecological audits/ water audits/green audits/ energy audits/ paper audits/ food intake audits- a series of audits that youth, men and women following the command of God/Allah perform or they are supposed to perform. They ensure more and more pious behaviour, consumption and production patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit, Inclusion and Governance along with many organisations call for generation of more pious responses as they are directly linked to reduction in the emission of green house gases .
Inter faith commons
The inter faith commons need to be communicated and disseminated for not only global integration but also for addressing the critical ecological challenge that we as part of humanity face . Global warming is no longer a concern of a particular nations but it is an issue that we all as part of humanity face. Inter faith commons bring to the fore the understanding that we have common monotheistic content and messengers who upheld the best standards of justice, communication, and struggle in their life time and fought men and women after utilizing the best means of persuasion. Shiv Sankalp Taru has a very interesting verse that needs to be brought in light for men and women who have special affinity for the Sanskrit textual tradition. The timings are very much common to the timing followed by the Muslims. It is a command that needs to be followed by all. Muslim youths, men and women already follow that following the communication of God/BRAHMM communicated through the last messenger while believing that commands were communicated through all the messengers earlier in various languages and lands. The commands followed by Muslims are the commands that were communicated through the earlier messengers were sent to all the lands to people who spoke various languages following the related verse in the holy Qur’an. Commands in Shiv Sankalp Taru “Ishwar smarate panch awasare” calls for remembrance of Ishwar who was neither born nor gave on five occasions in a day, every day-all the 365/366 days of the year.
Command for establishing prayer at the appointed hours exists in the Holy Qur’an. According to one count there are command for establishing salah and give zakat more that 54 times in the holy Qur’an. There are commands in Bible and Torah. Buddhist monotheistic tradition calls for fighting the ‘mara’ in the Dhammapada and the atheistic understanding calls for adoption of middle path in all the matters. Practice of meditation leads to transformation of consumption patterns. Gurus in the Sikhism and Jain traditions are examples of austere life filled with prayer and penance. Guru Nanak was a practitioner of prayer and remembrance and he is revered for that and followed by millions of Sikhs around the world. For Sikhs, it is not impossible to follow the best practices of Guru Nanak who established himself as a role model for millions of Sikhs around the world. Following table shows the interfaith commons that can be adopted by all. This is being proposed considering the absence of coherent strategy in the atheistic post-modern discourse and contingencies of the global emergencies that must be addressed.
Some key ecologically sensitive commands Islam Christianity Brahmanism Sikhism Judaism Buddhism Jainism
Prevention of usury √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Prohibition of adultery and homosexuality √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Propagation of austerity √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Protection of the institution of family √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for donating for the poor √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for prayer √ √ √ √ √ √ √
How an ecologically sustainable / contended reverent economy is built up with happiness for all
Ecological economists are currently debating issues with the Washington consensus economist and fighting the TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome .Noam Chomsky believes in the alternative economic order and so do youths of the world who through their calls are wanting to see the change and taking up non-violent advocacy and communication for the needful change . He also believes in the alternative political and cultural order .Binary economists are calling for abolition of interest charged on the loans as they believe creation of money from thin air in the books of the bankers is responsible for lots of ecologically hostile and socially inequitable practices in consumption, production and distribution and leisure use patterns
www.binaryeconomics.org .
Elimination of usury, fiat money propelling the ecologically hostile growth of urban habitats is being pointed out to be a critical factor in building a socially inclusive and ecologically safe economy. Similarly, debt free credit /interest free loans are being promoted for zero debt distressed suicides and bankruptcies.
Another major feature of contented and ecological sustainable economy is its capacity and intent for the protection of ecologically sustainable habitats with renewable resource based life support systems. It is simply impossible to envisage sustainability of non-renewable based transport systems in perpetuity. Search for nuclear energy and intense research activity in the renewable resource based energy is a proof for this. It needs to be noted that while nuclear energy in the short run appears to be carbon neutral, but in the long run, this is also not sustainable as there are limited resources for running the reactors. It is clear that resources such as uranium and thorium are not for all the time in the future. Therefore, the only solution is to decelerate and regulate the consumption of non-renewable resource based services and utilities through instituting an ecologically sustainable economy with the following features:
1.Debt free money and interest free loans with public control on the creation of money
2.Rights to renewable resource based habitats
3.Ecologically sustainable leisure use patterns
4.Distributive justice for renewable resource based livelihoods
5.Freedom from worried of energy crisis
6.Protection of Renewable resource based livelihoods
Freedom from worries of energy crisis affecting energy intensive transportation systems and habitats is an essential constituent of an ecologically sustainable and socially equitable economy .At present most of the planners are concerned with the increasing energy requirements and for this some countries are ready to sacrifice their ideals and foundations of foreign policy. Left parties in India along with other parties have been vociferously opposing the loss of independence in the foreign policy of India. It is important to ensure sustainability for the renewable resource based life support systems and for this it is important to halt the loss of ecologically sustainable habitats and agricultural production methodologies. It is not possible to ensure sustainability for habitat designs that are based on unsustainable energy sources. Therefore, it is not possible to ensure sustainability for skyscraper laden urban habitats. Urban areas with energy intensive shopping malls need to be brought within ecologically sustainable limits. For this to happen, it is important to support adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework.
Youths as drivers of change processes and communication for transition to ecologically safe life support systems locally and globally
Creating debt free money and ensuring interest free loans in not quite easy as that requires change of hearts and minds of men and women governing the various institutions who find the proposals difficult. Success of the proposals for ecologically sustainable and socially equitable economy and polity requires multiplication of men and women who uphold the criterion of piety. It is important that the pious men and women across the world prohibiting peacefully what is wrong and prescribing what is right take charge of the governance and ensure that debt free money is created, faith based measures are adopted for mitigating the impacts of climate change. It is important to understand the need to prepare for life after death as that would impel men and women to adopt faith based measures more and more. Now, the signs of ecological distress are too compelling to avoid collective and personal actions for both mitigating and halting the impacts of climate change. Signs of ecological distress affecting the lives of billions call for taking corrective action locally and globally. Youths and corporations who are market for non-renewable energy intensive services and utilities need to be in charge. Atheistic postmodernist laissez faire regimen of cultural, political and moral governance needs to be critically reviewed as they damage the survival interests of the billions in here and now and that of future generations.
Hurdles in the way/ constraints
There are hurdles in the way for such a massive change taking place simultaneously and globally and most pernicious among the faith based notions are that of neo-liberal atheistic ideology where market and profit devoid of the concerns of eternal interests of mankind are permitted to have full freedom. It is dominance of atheistic neo-liberal ideology that prevents men and women from adopting the faith based pious measures for addressing the global and local challenges. Media channels such as MTV with adoring participation of youths indoctrinated in the atheistic visions of good life are busy in creating models of copy cat consumption and leisure use patterns globally with local vernacular channels following in line. Starting with English music content in 90’s now MTV has more of Hindi songs and dance forms with direct message for youths for copying the ecologically leisure use pattern including partying ,dancing and drinking of intoxicating drinks.
The second hurdle is the lack on coherent national and international policy with respect to addressing the climate change. While Kyoto protocol emission target call for reduction in the emission of green house gases, national development strategies continue to be inspired by the perception of competitive disadvantage. It is dangerous to have such incoherence for long time as the assessments of climate scientists are too compelling. Speaking on the occasion of a meeting to the launch the full report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of global warming, Professor Martin Parry, a climate scientist with MET office in UK and co-chairman of the working group for the report said, “We are all used to talking about the impact of these changes coming in the lifetime of our children and grand children. Now we know that it is us.” He added that politicians had wasted a decade in focussing on ways to cut emissions, and had woken up recently to the need to adapt. He felt that “mitigation has got all the attention, but we cannot mitigate out of this problem. We have now a choice between a damaged world and a severely damaged world”. (The Hindu 20 September 2007)
The hurdle can be seen through assessing the levels of convergence for the various agencies and their functioning. While there are calls for higher rates of growth, they are not assessed in the light of the demands of ecological sustainability. Even the promotion of indexes such as “sustainability index” is not getting the required attention and it has been left to the discretion of the nations. There are evidences of lack of interagency cooperation and United National Development Programme (UNDP) appears to be working against the mandate of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Environment assessments /ministries are slighted for benefiting ecologically hostile proposals/ policies. More often than not considerations of ecological sustainability are ignored for sanctioning ecologically hostile projects. This is evident from the sanction of Special Economic Zones despite the violent and non-violent resistance of farmers in India as they did not want to give up on their only source of ecologically sustainable livelihoods through farming. Committee for Campaign on National Himalayan Policy for the ecologically fragile Himalayan region in India has been calling for redefinition of development policy.
Therefore there is a need to institute a governance framework that is both ecologically safe and socially inclusive with reference to poor, old, children and women, ethnic and religious groups residing both in rural and urban habitats.
Labour League Foundation along with several youth led organisations considers the need for establishing ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance with the following features:
1.A governance that is cognizant of the needs of poor, rights of farmers and villages to ecologically sustainable livelihoods and habitats
2.Governance that eliminates fictitious inflationary money and usurious loans created from thin air and responsible for expansion of ecologically hostile habitats
3. Governance that promotes pious and ecologically safe consumption and production pattern
4.A government that plans for ecologically safe disaster free future for all
5.Governance that ensure ecologically safe distribution of natural resources
6.Governance that works for the interests of all
7.Governance that ensures policy making for the rights of children, future generations and poor
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Diagram-4
Represents the key features of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance
Youth strategies
1.Multiplication of carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions (CNNDs) across the cities and villages
These discussions initiated by youth and community elders in the neighbourhood where they gather for collective prayer, discussions and other social engagements. The recommendations of the discussions and simultaneous action compiled at various levels will be presented in the form of a memorandum to the local and world leader gathered in various summits and events accelerating the generation of ecologically safe survival and development policies and multiplication of ecologically safe survival policies. Local impacts will be generated through transformation of the leisure use pattern, consumption pattern, production systems ensuring minimisation of emission of green house gases and galvanising mass communication strategies for reduction in the personal contribution to the green house gases. The discussions on the urgency of reducing green house gases lead to the transformation of personal level consumption patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion and Governance (CEASIG), a Delhi based organisation believes that personal responses are critical for transformation of the consumption patterns. Unsustainable consumption patterns can be halted with the personal responses. Personal responses are always part of the global responses. Carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions (CNNDs) will multiply ecologically safe responses across the urban and rural areas.
2.Multiplication of ecologically safe responses through promotion of green journalism
Production of analytical and advisory outputs through journalists is critical and they are one of the major stakeholders in shaping the opinions, consumption patterns. Journalists writing on lifestyle can substantially influence the consumption pattern of people in the urban areas. They can help in shaping the tastes and defining the choices. Journalists are important is generating democratic consensus for halting unsustainable consumption patterns. In our times, journalists play a very critical and sometimes they are responsible for defining the social, cultural and political trends. Youth organisations call for securing the future of villages, children and future generations with ecologically sustainable habitats, consumption patterns while ensuring inter-species justice.
3.Catalysing green politics
Labour league Foundation and Centre for Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion and Governance along with many organisations globally will be supporting the process for open and transparent politics for instilling the importance of ecologically safe green ideals. Youth organisations will be organising meetings with the representatives of the various media organisations and political parties and seek inclusion of ecological considerations in editorial policies and election manifestoes. Media organisations need to be visionary organisations and help in the preparation for an emerging future bereft of petro-modern consumption, transport, habitat and production systems.
4.Transformation of leisure use patterns
Youth organisations and youth wish to realise the millennium development goals for eliminating the unsustainable consumption patterns and wish to do so through suggesting transformation of the leisure use pattern. Suggestions for adoption of faith based measures that are common across the religious texts need to be taken seriously as part of global cultural commons. As indicated through the diagrammatic representation of the impact of adoption of faith based measures, youths call for generating interfaith consensus for acting simultaneously for transforming the leisure use patterns.
5.Calculation of ecological footprints, eliminating ecological rucksacks, returning to the ecologically sustainable habitats of the past for securing the ecological safe future of children and future generations
Youth call for dissemination of the practice of measuring ecological footprints for getting the desired actions for reducing the number of decisions involving emission of green house gases. Similarly, awareness on the loss of rocks due to excessive mining is critical for eliminating the amount of ecological losses. It is critical to value the conventional housing designs that use mud, grass, bamboo and wood. The definition of poverty considering the possession of adobe dwellings as a sign of poverty needs to be revised.
6.Ecological Audit of the consumption processes and patterns
The ecological audit is a concept proposed by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam, the chairman of Labour League Foundation
http://muhammad_mukhtar_alam.tigblog.org .This needs to be used along with the calculation of ecological footprints, environment audit/ green audit for assessing the impact of various decision and consumption patterns. Globalisation of the ecological audit at all levels is needed for supporting ecologically sustainable consumption patterns. This is important for realising the millennium development goals for environment sustainability by the year 2015. It is proposed that reports on sustainability index are incorporated in the formulation of the ecologically safe development policy.
7.Ecological Audit of the production systems / patterns
Production processes need to be assessed for ecological sustainability. There are ecologically sustainable and unsustainable production processes. The workshops with corporations interested in realising the millennium development goals will be conducted for getting in the changes in production processes. Youths believe based on the predictions on the oil reserves that Petro-modern production systems do not have a long future. Reducing energy demand for ecologically unsustainable production, consumption patterns is critical for halting the expansion of deserts and regularisation of rainfalls.
8.Ecological Audit of the transport systems / patterns
Renewable resource based transport systems are sustainable and non-renewable resource based transport systems are not sustainable. Ecological Audit of the transport systems needs to be encouraged for all organisations and ministries dealing with transport. Minimising / Eliminating travel is critical for ecologically sustainable habitats. We need to prepare for the end of petro-modern age.
9.Ecological Audit of the leisure use patterns-
There are leisure use patterns that do not use green house gas producing fossil fuels and there are leisure use patterns that are based on renewable resources and that does not involve consumption of fossil fuels. Workshop with the neighbourhood discussion leaders and resident welfare associations needs to be conducted for necessary transformation of leisure use patterns. Children, youths and elders need to be encouraged to adopt faith based measures for relaxation and stress busting. There are several studies that have demonstrated the impact of prayer and meditation on stress levels. Ecological audit of the leisure engagements need to be supported for getting the desired response for reduction in the emission of green house gases through transformation of leisure use patterns.
10.Interfaith dialogue for addressing the climate change, farmer’s suicides, and social security for workers in unorganized sector and transforming finance sector
Appreciation of the common commands for prayer, donation, compassion, charity and prohibition of usury, adultery, and homosexuality is needed with wider dissemination of the same. Adoption of these commands addresses the challenge of climate change, ecologically hostile usurious system, AIDS and so on. Inter-faith dialogue will ensure generation of responses across the faith groups. Delhi has a vibrant culture of interfaith dialogue. Sant Rajinder Singh of Sawan Kripal Ashram has been conducting the same for many years. Youth organisation need to work independently or in collaboration with faith based organisations for generating more forums of interfaith dialogue.
11.National/ regional/ city/ village based conventions on Inter Faith common responses for addressing the climate change-
Governments need to be encouraged for holding national conventions for generating consensus for adoption of faith based measures for addressing the climate change. There are cultural responses for fighting the atheistic neo-liberal cultural trends emanating from Europe and copied by youth in the name of globalisation and modernity. National Convention will address the issue of climate change through adopting the interfaith commons while preserving religious diversity and ecologically sustainable dietary, sartorial, linguistic diversities.
12.Carbon neutral Youth colloquiums / meetings / Majlis-e-Naujawan/ Yuva Harit Bharat Sabha/../../
Youths propose globalisation of local efforts for contributing in the mitigation of the impacts of climate change. Governments recognise the critical role of youths as more and more organisations led by youths are involved in consultation. It is suggested that Green youth forums with vernacular names need to be formed and discussions be held with active government support for getting the desired response pattern for halting the expansion of unsustainable consumption pattern and leisure use pattern through adoption of faith based measures.
Conclusion:
Imagining the responses of the weaker species in the face of man made onslaughts on the non-renewable resources , many youths across the world recognise the threats represented through the expression of anguish of the billions of poor who are angry, dispossessed and seeking an end to the process of non-renewable resource based usurious finance fuelled expansion of consumption and production pattern that is causing serious loss of livelihood for millions across the Earth and call upon all the governments, civil society organisations, corporations engaged in ecologically hostile production processes to boycott the ecologically hostile usurious finance and prevent further loss of ecologically sustainable habitats that are an immediate outcome of the expansion of ecologically hostile non-renewable resource based habitats. Nations need to compete in establishing the models of ecologically safe economy, polity and culture. Youth of the world are ready to become a leader along with Muslims, Greens and men and women of the world who wish to halt the political expansion of the atheistic neo-liberal ideology that is responsible for exacerbating the ecological distress demonstrated through the increased incidence of drought and expansion of deserts causing suffering for millions. Adaptation is the weakest response and youths call for halting the negative impacts of climate change. Nothing is impossible.
Reference:
•Yacouba Noël COULIBALY (2007), “Desertification, climate change and Forest in the Sahel”,
Center for International Forestry Research, Tropical Forest and Climate Change Adaptation Project, 06 BP 9478 Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso
•www.simpol.org
•www.monetary.org
•www.globaljusticemovement.org
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http://muhammad_mukhtar_alam.tigblog.org
PAPEL de juventudes en la REDUCCIÓN AL MÍNIMO DE LA INCIDENCIA DE LA SEQUÍA Y PARAR LA EXTENSIÓN DE LOS DESIERTOS THROUHG QUE TRATAN EL CAMBIO del CLIMA CERCA TRANSFORMAR PATRONES ECOLÓGICO INSOSTENIBLES DE LA CONSUMICIÓN, DE LA PRODUCCIÓN Y DEL TRANSPO
Automatically translated into Spanish thanks to WorldLingo
Las sequías y la desertificación como impacto de las sequías del cambio
del clima han sido una causa de la preocupación en toda la parte del mundo por siglos. Hay referencias para igual en los textos santos tales como el Torah santo, la biblia y el Qur santo'. Yusuf/José, el hijo más joven de Yaqoob/Jacob, el mensajero de Allah/del dios ha registrado para haber aconsejado al rey de Egipto para prepararse por los años de la sequía en base de un sueño que el rey vio y mencionó al preso anterior que vivía con José (la paz esté sobre él). El rey actuaba sobre la interpretación de su sueño proporcionado por José (la paz esté sobre él) y preparado por 7 años de la sequía. Semejantemente, la desertificación ha sido un proceso que se ha registrado como uno del proceso que ha estado encendido en varias partes del mundo. Las sequías son marcadas por la ausencia de la lluvia o de la lluvia inadecuada que es responsable de la pérdida de cosechas o de cosecha inadecuada que causa una preocupación seria por el alimento. La desertificación se liga a la pérdida de habitat agrícolas. La pérdida de regiones agrícolas, cubierta del bosque es un resultado del globalisation de los procesos de producción industrial basados en recursos basados los recursos no renovables. El cambio del clima es un resultado del globalisation de habitat urbanos basados recurso no renovable. La sequía está, entre otros factores, responsables de la degradación del suelo. También se ha establecido que la desertificación aumenta el efecto de las emisiones de gas verdes de la casa. Hay así una relación de la causa y del efecto entre el cambio y la desertificación climáticos.
El foco del documento de la posición de la juventud sobre sequía y la desertificación por lo tanto está en el siguiente:
1. El gravamen de respuestas al cambio del clima se está haciendo,
2. gravámenes de los instrumentos para atenuar los impactos de los climas,
3. los cañizos hechos frente en la puesta en práctica de la emisión del protocolo de Kyoto apuntan
4. Apremios en la estrategia y la oferta del desarrollo para la estrategia ecológico sostenible 5
del desarrollo. Llame para la adopción del marco ecológico seguro y social inclusivo del gobierno para ecológico el sustainability y social la equidad
6. La fe innovadora basó las estrategias
7. Estrategias de la juventud
Cambie en el clima con subida de la temperatura de la tierra, cambio en patrones de la precipitación se causa debido a la emisión de los gases verdes de la casa que levantan la temperatura de la tierra como la cantidad de gases verdes de la casa generados es mucho más que la capacidad de la cubierta verde para absorber. Los impactos del cambio del clima se están sintiendo por todas partes más allá de los límites nacionales. Hay varias evidencias registradas que ha hecho naciones adquirir el desafío de .UN que se calentaba global que el panel intergubernamental en cambio del clima ha sido reunión y el deliberar en la edición. Hay varias respuestas nacionales y acuerdos internacionales. Recientemente China y los E.E.U.U. ha expresado el acuerdo de trabajar en cambio del clima. Hablando en la ocasión de la cumbre de APEC en Sydney, Sr. de Australia. Hu Jintao mantuvo que “el convenio de base de Naciones Unidas debe seguir siendo el canal principal para los esfuerzos internacionales” de tratar el cambio del clima”.
El cuarto informe del gravamen del panel intergubernamental en el cambio del clima (IPCC), que acentuó las consecuencias de gran envergadura que continuaron calentarse global tendrían a través del mundo, ha dado nuevo impulso a encontrar la solución al problema. La cumbre del grupo de ocho industrializó los países (G8) sostenidos en Alemania en el mes del junio de 2007 acordó lanzar las nuevas iniciativas para la acción colectiva por naciones ricas y países en vías de desarrollo de crecimineto rápido para combatir el cambio del clima. De su cuarto informe del gravamen, el IPCC, el cuerpo internacional que tiene la tarea de pesar evidencia científica en cambio del clima, señalado a la evidencia definitiva que la concentración atmosférica global del invernadero dominante provee de gas por ejemplo el bióxido de carbono “había aumentado marcado como resultado de actividades humanas desde 1750”. Estos gases atrapaban el calor de la tierra que habría irradiado de otra manera hacia fuera en espacio. Si la acumulación de los gases del invernadero y el calentarse resultante del planeta fueron permitidos continuar desenfrenado, la humanidad tendrá que colectivamente hacer frente a varias consecuencias. Las sequías y la desertificación están entre los impactos del cambio del clima. El papel de la posición se está centrando en los desafíos y ofrece las soluciones para parar los impactos del cambio del clima con la adopción de medidas incluyendo las respuestas personales basadas fe para la transformación de los patrones ecológico hostiles del uso de la consumición, de la producción y del ocio.
Del progreso las porciones
hasta ahora de seminarios y de conferencias se han organizado para tratar el desafío global. Hay las blancos de la emisión del protocolo de Kyoto para las cuales se han ideado las estrategias nacionales. El protocolo de Kyoto conocido formalmente como convenios de base de la O.N.U sobre cambio del clima no ha sido ratificado por algunas de las naciones importantes. LOS E.E.U.U. y Australia no está ratificando el protocolo pues tienen opiniones de la desventaja competitiva. Hay acuerdos para reducir las emisiones por el año 2020 y 2050. Existe una movilización vibrante de la sociedad civil y movilización de los grupos de la juventud. Varios grupos están trabajando para la defensa de la política para poner las blancos en ejecución obligatorias para la emisión de los gases verdes de la casa. También existe una defensa dinámica de la política para el R&D en energía reanudable de modo que haya un montón de energía basada del recurso reanudable para substituir la energía no renovable. Los partidos verdes que existen en más de 88 países están llamando para el reemplazo para el invernadero que genera fuentes de energía basadas del combustible fósil con energía reanudable.
El panel intergubernamental de la O.N.U en cambio del clima se ha concedido el premio Nobel junto con Roberto Al Gore para trabajar en el cambio del clima. El comité Nobel del noruego citó a recipientes “para que sus esfuerzos acumulen y diseminen mayor conocimiento sobre cambio artificial del clima y pongan las fundaciones para las medidas que son necesarias contrariar tal cambio”. Sr. Al Gore respondió a la citación que decía que “hacemos frente a una emergencia verdaderamente planetaria: el cambio del clima no es una edición política, es un desafío moral y espiritual a toda la humanidad”. Mr.R.K. Pachaury que comparte el premio con Roberto Al Gore mientras que respondió el presidente del panel intergubernamental en cambio del clima que el premio de la paz Nobel agregaría el sentido de la urgencia a la lucha contra calentarse global. IPCC, instalado en 1988, es tasked con dar a policymakers un resumen del conocimiento más último sobre cambio del clima. El jefe de Gavin Edwards del clima y la energía hacen campaña, Greenpeace internacional hablando de lo que pueden hacer los gobiernos a través del mundo para atenuar el problema precisaron la necesidad de reconsiderar términos del protocolo que reconoce la responsabilidad distinguida de las varias naciones que responden al cambio del clima. Él precisa la necesidad de los países en vías de desarrollo de hacer todo el necesario y de no repetir los errores de los países desarrollados - las “organizaciones no gubernamentales realmente se han centrado en las naciones industrializadas que tienen que hacer la parte del león de abordar el clima cambiar-que está claro. Pero cuál está también claro es ése los países en vías de desarrollo como la India y China continúa constantemente convirtiéndose con el negocio como viejo acercamiento generalmente del desarrollo del estilo. Podrían repetir las mismas equivocaciones que el oeste ha incurrido en en las últimas décadas. Y, si la India, China y otros países continúan incurriendo en esas equivocaciones, después sin importar qué el oeste está haciendo para abordar el cambio del clima él sea imposible”.
Los instrumentos abogados para atenuar las tecnologías económicas de energía
del cambio del clima se están desarrollando para reducir al mínimo la consumición de la energía. Las lámparas de CFL se están promoviendo como parte de utilidades económicas de energía y de equipos para contribuir en la reducción de las emisiones de gas verdes de la casa. Allí también metas para el reemplazo de la energía reanudable del throng no renovable de la energía. Partido verde en el reemplazo a gama completa de la búsqueda de Alemania de la energía no renovable por energía reanudable por el año 2020. Hay los tratados que han sido firmado sin embargo ellos no se siguen religioso. Más financiamiento se está buscando para la investigación para los servicios basados globalizing y las utilidades de la energía reanudable. Las blancos obligatorias en la reducción de la emisión no están allí al igual que evidente de la recomendación del aspirational de la cumbre de APEC concluida recientemente en Sydney como parte de los procesos para el convenio de base de la O.N.U sobre el cambio del clima que se sostendrá en Bali en el mes del diciembre de 2007. Hay planes de la acción desprovistos de políticas y de la blanco obligatorias para la emisión de los gases verdes de la casa.
Si la acumulación de los gases del invernadero y de calentarse resultante del planeta fue permitida continuar desenfrenado, tendremos colectivamente consecuencias en términos de pérdida de los sustentos ecológico sostenibles, habitat, faltas de cosecha, distribución no equitativa de los habitat ecológico seguros a través del mundo. Es bien sabido que el auge económico global está acelerando emisiones de gas verdes de la casa con los patrones basados energía no renovable de los habitat urbanos siempre que se amplían, de la consumición, de la producción y del transporte.
Los problemas en las estrategias
allí son las estrategias que se han identificado con el reconocimiento global de la necesidad de reducir emisiones verdes de la casa. Sin embargo, consiguen derrotados mientras que las metas se fijan con resultados y visiones de la contradicción. Por ejemplo, el cálculo del GDP no considera el impacto en el ambiente y costes ecológicos y no es así por lo tanto factores en el cálculo del producto interno bruto. Los costes enormes en ambientes se no hacen caso después de la convicción que todos los recursos están para el uso y su no-utilización es un indicador del desarrollo tecnológico bajo. Un habitat ecológico sostenible no se considera valioso con sustentos ecológico sostenibles. La divulgación trimestral sobre el aumento en el GDP no factor el aumento en emisiones de gas verdes de la casa. 7mo La iniciativa de la generación en Canadá con acto de la medida del bienestar en una iniciativa para descomponer en factores los costes ecológicos y el coste de las mujeres trabajan en el país
www.sustainwellbeing.net. Creen que el cálculo del producto interno bruto debe incluir el coste en el ambiente ese nuestras acciones en el presente tiene
www.sustainwellbeing.net. Mike Nickerson y Joe Jordon han estado haciendo campaña por años.
Los partidos políticos continúan siendo inspirados por visiones a corto plazo y no es absolutamente su avería. SIMPOL está trabajando con los votantes global para influenciar la adopción simultánea de políticas. Hay necesidad de asegurar acciones cada vez más simultáneas global para las acciones pacíficas, decisiones, las opciones que contribuirán en seguridad ecológica colectiva. Los partidos políticos necesitan ser educados para apoyar las políticas que aseguran la protección de sustentos ecológico sostenibles y de habitat. La fundación de trabajo de la liga, la confianza de Sufi y CEASIG como parte del foro nacional de los trabajadores del bosque y el bosque pueblan el soporte de las derechas de la tierra en sus habitat tradicionales con suprimir el impacto de las legislaciones coloniales que las privaron las sus derechas a las tierras de la granja y de la agricultura. Los partidos verdes se refieren sobre las ediciones ecológico seguras pero sus votantes son pocos. La mayor parte de los partidos políticos se refieren a las ediciones que son más atractivas a la élite y a la clase media en el presente inmediato.
Otro cañizo importante experimentado de la manera de conseguir las respuestas globales para atenuar el cambio del clima es comercialización continuada de los patrones intensivos de la consumición del combustible fósil, diseños de los habitat urbanos, paradigma del desarrollo, nacionalismos competitivos para buscar los marcadores de las formas de vida intensivas del combustible fósil, devaluación de los patrones ecológico sostenibles de la consumición de la agricultura. Existe ayuda política continuada para los productos culturales y los procesos que sean hostiles a la seguridad ecológica nacional y global. Mientras que hay medidas para los gravámenes ecológicos del impacto del ambiente del impacto pero entonces existe marcado ausencia de las preocupaciones por tratar las causas de la raíz de desastres ecológicos y artificiales. Marginalisation de los grupos basados fe de la juventud por el intelligentsia ateo continúa siendo el problema que necesita ser tratado. Necesitan ser traídos a bordo.
Paradigma nacional ecológico seguro del desarrollo de la estrategia
que considera el antedicho, se propone que un paradigma nacional ecológico seguro del desarrollo de la estrategia contiene las características siguientes:
1. La comercialización de la consumición ecológico segura, producción, uso del ocio modeló
2. Desalentar los patrones ecológico hostiles 3 de la consumición y
de la producción. Promoción del comercio de la vecindad y de la educación y de desalentar el comercio y la educación ecológico hostiles
4. Agricultura ecológico sostenible
5. Promoción de los sistemas ecológico sostenibles 6
del transporte. La fe basó las medidas para la transformación del patrón 7 del uso
del ocio. Promoción y protección de los habitat ecológico sostenibles
8. sistema libre exento de intereses y de la deuda ecológico seguro 9
de las finanzas. Los modelos ecológico seguros del éxito
hacia una reducción
de la solución en la emisión de los gases verdes de la casa con promover medidas y los patrones de la decisión que moderan la consumición de los servicios y de las utilidades basados en la consumición de la casa verde que emite los combustibles fósiles son críticos que todos referidos a salvaguardar la humanidad de los impactos negativos del cambio del clima, reduciendo al mínimo la incidencia de la sequía y parando la extensión de desiertos y previniendo la pérdida de habitat ecológico sostenibles y de sustentos. En vista de las emergencias, se discute que la adopción de la fe basó las medidas para los patrones del uso del ocio que transformaban está considerada en prioridad. El diagrama de siguiente demuestra el impacto y las relaciones que la adopción del rezo y de la meditación 5 mide el tiempo de un día en los patrones de la consumición.
Los hombres y las mujeres que siguen los comandos para el rezo y la meditación 5 miden el tiempo de un día no son probables complacer en la consumición de porciones de los contratos del trabajo del poste de la tarde que requieren recorridos interurbanos pues éste interferiría en la observancia del comando para el rezo /salah /meditation /yoga en las horas designadas. Puede ser visto fácilmente que la adopción de este comando asegurará la transformación de porciones de consumición del ocio intensivo del combustible fósil tal como ir a la barra y a los pasillos que bailan. Esto se puede adoptar junto con varias otras respuestas personales y de la comunidad para reducir la emisión de casas verdes. Las respuestas basadas fe aparecen ser más eficaces y necesitan ser promovidas en cuanto a esto no hay necesidad de hacer esfuerzos adicionales. La asociación del conservadurismo del `' aparece ser más uno de la respuesta que algunos hombres y mujeres pueden tener para la comunicación de medidas basadas fe. Pero entonces es importante ver la importancia de la adopción de la medida basada fe para la eficacia, la seguridad, la conveniencia, la deseabilidad y la validez ecológicas. Las respuestas basadas fe son comunes y apenas necesitan ser promovidas para su contribución en el bienestar ecológico en los niveles personales, de la comunidad, sociales, nacionales y globales. Hay una necesidad urgente igual.
La fe personal basó rezo
de las respuestas 5 veces al día para el patrón del uso del ocio que transformaba que reconocía que los patrones del uso del ocio son uno de los contratos sociales dominantes que consumen la mayor parte de los servicios basados y las utilidades del combustible fósil. El comando para el rezo es común a través de los textos religiosos aunque aparece practicado lo más prominente posible por los hombres y las mujeres que siguen las comunicaciones de Muhammad, creídos para ser el mensajero pasado por Muslims (los hombres y las mujeres que someten a la voluntad del dios/de Allah/. /.
Cómo la adopción del rezo transforma los patrones de la consumición y los hombres intensivos y las mujeres de los patrones del uso del ocio
del recorrido ecológico hostil que practican el rezo (salah en árabe) no visitan pasillos y barras que bailan mientras que se refieren más sobre la rogación a tiempo. El rezo por la mañana, tarde, después de la puesta del sol y entonces del rezo después de la cena en los pasillos del rezo y de la meditación de las iglesias/synagogue/de los mosques/de los hogares/lugar de trabajo hace que limitan al foco en el trabajo necesario solamente. El rezo y el remembrance para ellos es un medio de la relajación, de la tensión que revienta, de la socialización, y del communion y así sucesivamente. Concentrados de S/he en las materias esenciales en la vecindad y los cuidados para ellos según lo ordenado a través de los mensajeros. En segundo lugar, abstienen de la consumición exhibicionista que sigue el comando del dios Allah para no transgressing el sistema de los límites/de límites de God/de Allah. For dressing they believe that the best dress is that of piety determined by the extent to which they follow the commands of God/ Allah. They abstain from adultery following the commands against the same as they believe in upholding the best standards of piety. They seek forgiveness from God/Allah for the sinful deeds executed intentionally or unintentionally. Thus adoption of prayer 5 times a day works as a guard for all the behaviours that have been prohibited in the holy books across the religions.
They donate out of the sustenance for poor following the commands for donation/zakat, khairat, fitra and sadaqah/daan.. They do not waste and thus observe the best of the ideals communicated through the slogan of ‘waste not, want not’. They indulge in ecologically safe consumption and believe in moderation in all matters. The middle path communicated through the commands of God/Allah is best ensured through the adoption of compulsory prayers 5 times a day. Youth, Men and men following the commands in Shiv Sankalp Taru for remembrance of Ishwar are likely to have the similar best behaviour patterns that are ecologically safe. Their average ecological footprints are likely to be very low. This needs to be established with communication of more ecological audits/ water audits/green audits/ energy audits/ paper audits/ food intake audits- a series of audits that youth, men and women following the command of God/Allah perform or they are supposed to perform. They ensure more and more pious behaviour, consumption and production patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit, Inclusion and Governance along with many organisations call for generation of more pious responses as they are directly linked to reduction in the emission of green house gases .
Inter faith commons
The inter faith commons need to be communicated and disseminated for not only global integration but also for addressing the critical ecological challenge that we as part of humanity face . Global warming is no longer a concern of a particular nations but it is an issue that we all as part of humanity face. Inter faith commons bring to the fore the understanding that we have common monotheistic content and messengers who upheld the best standards of justice, communication, and struggle in their life time and fought men and women after utilizing the best means of persuasion. Shiv Sankalp Taru has a very interesting verse that needs to be brought in light for men and women who have special affinity for the Sanskrit textual tradition. The timings are very much common to the timing followed by the Muslims. It is a command that needs to be followed by all. Muslim youths, men and women already follow that following the communication of God/BRAHMM communicated through the last messenger while believing that commands were communicated through all the messengers earlier in various languages and lands. The commands followed by Muslims are the commands that were communicated through the earlier messengers were sent to all the lands to people who spoke various languages following the related verse in the holy Qur’an. Commands in Shiv Sankalp Taru “Ishwar smarate panch awasare” calls for remembrance of Ishwar who was neither born nor gave on five occasions in a day, every day-all the 365/366 days of the year.
Command for establishing prayer at the appointed hours exists in the Holy Qur’an. According to one count there are command for establishing salah and give zakat more that 54 times in the holy Qur’an. There are commands in Bible and Torah. Buddhist monotheistic tradition calls for fighting the ‘mara’ in the Dhammapada and the atheistic understanding calls for adoption of middle path in all the matters. Practice of meditation leads to transformation of consumption patterns. Gurus in the Sikhism and Jain traditions are examples of austere life filled with prayer and penance. Guru Nanak was a practitioner of prayer and remembrance and he is revered for that and followed by millions of Sikhs around the world. For Sikhs, it is not impossible to follow the best practices of Guru Nanak who established himself as a role model for millions of Sikhs around the world. Following table shows the interfaith commons that can be adopted by all. This is being proposed considering the absence of coherent strategy in the atheistic post-modern discourse and contingencies of the global emergencies that must be addressed.
Some key ecologically sensitive commands Islam Christianity Brahmanism Sikhism Judaism Buddhism Jainism
Prevention of usury √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Prohibition of adultery and homosexuality √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Propagation of austerity √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Protection of the institution of family √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for donating for the poor √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for prayer √ √ √ √ √ √ √
How an ecologically sustainable / contended reverent economy is built up with happiness for all
Ecological economists are currently debating issues with the Washington consensus economist and fighting the TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome .Noam Chomsky believes in the alternative economic order and so do youths of the world who through their calls are wanting to see the change and taking up non-violent advocacy and communication for the needful change . He also believes in the alternative political and cultural order .Binary economists are calling for abolition of interest charged on the loans as they believe creation of money from thin air in the books of the bankers is responsible for lots of ecologically hostile and socially inequitable practices in consumption, production and distribution and leisure use patterns
www.binaryeconomics.org .
Elimination of usury, fiat money propelling the ecologically hostile growth of urban habitats is being pointed out to be a critical factor in building a socially inclusive and ecologically safe economy. Similarly, debt free credit /interest free loans are being promoted for zero debt distressed suicides and bankruptcies.
Another major feature of contented and ecological sustainable economy is its capacity and intent for the protection of ecologically sustainable habitats with renewable resource based life support systems. It is simply impossible to envisage sustainability of non-renewable based transport systems in perpetuity. Search for nuclear energy and intense research activity in the renewable resource based energy is a proof for this. It needs to be noted that while nuclear energy in the short run appears to be carbon neutral, but in the long run, this is also not sustainable as there are limited resources for running the reactors. It is clear that resources such as uranium and thorium are not for all the time in the future. Therefore, the only solution is to decelerate and regulate the consumption of non-renewable resource based services and utilities through instituting an ecologically sustainable economy with the following features:
1.Debt free money and interest free loans with public control on the creation of money
2.Rights to renewable resource based habitats
3.Ecologically sustainable leisure use patterns
4.Distributive justice for renewable resource based livelihoods
5.Freedom from worried of energy crisis
6.Protection of Renewable resource based livelihoods
Freedom from worries of energy crisis affecting energy intensive transportation systems and habitats is an essential constituent of an ecologically sustainable and socially equitable economy .At present most of the planners are concerned with the increasing energy requirements and for this some countries are ready to sacrifice their ideals and foundations of foreign policy. Left parties in India along with other parties have been vociferously opposing the loss of independence in the foreign policy of India. It is important to ensure sustainability for the renewable resource based life support systems and for this it is important to halt the loss of ecologically sustainable habitats and agricultural production methodologies. It is not possible to ensure sustainability for habitat designs that are based on unsustainable energy sources. Therefore, it is not possible to ensure sustainability for skyscraper laden urban habitats. Urban areas with energy intensive shopping malls need to be brought within ecologically sustainable limits. For this to happen, it is important to support adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework.
Youths as drivers of change processes and communication for transition to ecologically safe life support systems locally and globally
Creating debt free money and ensuring interest free loans in not quite easy as that requires change of hearts and minds of men and women governing the various institutions who find the proposals difficult. Success of the proposals for ecologically sustainable and socially equitable economy and polity requires multiplication of men and women who uphold the criterion of piety. It is important that the pious men and women across the world prohibiting peacefully what is wrong and prescribing what is right take charge of the governance and ensure that debt free money is created, faith based measures are adopted for mitigating the impacts of climate change. It is important to understand the need to prepare for life after death as that would impel men and women to adopt faith based measures more and more. Now, the signs of ecological distress are too compelling to avoid collective and personal actions for both mitigating and halting the impacts of climate change. Signs of ecological distress affecting the lives of billions call for taking corr
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