TIGblogs - Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam

Faith based responses and governance framework for mitigating climate change as part of preparation for the end of petro-modern age.

Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam©

Climate change as an impact of the globalisation of non-renewable energy based habitats, consumption, production and transportation

Natural disasters and man made disasters have been feared and has been the reason of the destruction of civilisations. Deluge occurring as a curse of God for rebellion against the commands of Almighty has been mentioned in the holy texts. Climate Change caused primary due to emission of green house gas emissions appears to heralding a series of disasters for mankind across the world. The loss of agricultural lands, forest cover is an outcome of globalisation of industrial production processes based on non-renewable resources based Climate change is an outcome of the attempts for globalisation of non-renewable resource based urban habitats. Renewable energy is the future as it has been the key source for millennia. There is need to secure protection of the social futures across the word from the ecological disasters that are man made. There is a need to reduce the consumption of GHG emitting fossil fuel based services and utilities.

The detailed version of the the paper on faith based solutions and governance framework for mitigating the climate change considers the fact that non-renewable resource based energy does not have future and it has assessment of responses to climate change are being made, assessments of the instruments for mitigating the impacts of climates, analysis of hurdles faced in the implementation of the Kyoto protocol emission targets and addresses the constraints in the development strategy and proposal for ecologically sustainable development strategy. The author calls for adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework for ecologically sustainability and socially equity. He also called for Innovative faith based strategies for reducing the emission of green house gases and other systemic factors associated with ecologically hostile development paradigm.

Change in the climate with rise in temperature of earth, change in rainfall patterns is caused due to emission of gases that is raising 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 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 US has expressed agreement 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, leisure use patterns.

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.

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 lions share of tackling the climate change-that’s is 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.

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. 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 has been 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 groups by the atheistic intelligentsia continues to be problem that needs to be addressed as they need to be brought on board with much more dynamism for addressing the global and local challenges.

An Ecologically safe national strategy/ development paradigm can be considered containing 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. Following diagram attempts to demonstrate the impact and relations that adoption of prayer 5 times a day on the consumption patterns. Men and women following the commands for prayer 5 times 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 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 are critical for minimising the emission of green house gases. 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/../.
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 afternoon, after sunset and then prayer after dinner in the mosques 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 Allah for not transgressing the bounds/limits set by Allah. For dressing they believe that the best dress is that of piety determined by the extent to which they follow the commands of Allah. They abstain from adultery following the commands against the same as they believe in upholding the best standards of peaty. They seek forgiveness from 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 zakat, khairat, fitra and sadaqah. 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 Allah is best ensured through the adoption of compulsory prayers 5 times a day. 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 men and women following the command of 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 would like to promote generation of more pious responses as they are directly linked to reduction in the emission of green house gases.

Inter faith commons

Centre for Ecological Audit, Inclusion and Governance(CEASIG) believes in the inter faith commons that 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 need to bring to the fore for 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. Muslims 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. They need to know more and more that the commands followed by Muslims are the commands that were communicated through the earlier messengers also. Muslims rightly believe that 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.

Establish prayer at the appointed hours 5 times (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 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 Monotheistic 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 does 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.

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 shopping malls will no longer expand and remain within ecologically sustainable limits. For this to happen, it is important to support adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework proposed by several organisations.

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. It is not the after death concerns that are important but signs of ecological distress affecting the lives of billions that are clear indicators for change and 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. No longer, atheistic postmodernist notions of laissez faire regimen of cultural, political and moral governance can be encouraged to further 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 the anti-church and anti-Islamic communications that are the major hurdles in the way of change. 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 resistance of farmers in India as they did not want to give up on their only source of ecologically sustainable livelihoods through farming.

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 through 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 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

Ecologically sustainable and socially inclusive strategies include Multiplication of carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions across the cities and villages ,Multiplication of ecologically safe responses through promotion of green journalism, catalysing green politics, transformation of leisure use patterns ,calculation of ecological footprints, eliminating ecological rucksacks, ecological Audit of the consumption patterns, production patterns, Ecological Audit of the transport patterns, Ecological Audit of the leisure use patterns, Interfaith dialogue for addressing the climate change, farmer’s suicides, and social security for workers in unorganized sector, transforming finance sector through appreciation of the common commands for prayer, donation, compassion, charity and prohibition of usury, adultery, and homosexuality, National/ regional/ city/ village based conventions on Inter Faith common responses for addressing the climate change, carbon neutral Youth colloquiums / meetings / Majlis-e-Naujawan/ Yuva Harit Bharat Sabha/../../

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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إيمان يؤسّس يغيّر إستجابات وحكم هيكل ل يخفّف مناخ كجزء تحضير للنهاية من عمر [بترو-مودرن].
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إيمان يؤسّس يغيّر إستجابات وحكم هيكل ل يخفّف مناخ كجزء تحضير للنهاية من عمر [بترو-مودرن].

[در.موهمّد] [موكهتر] [ألم]

مناخ أسّس تغير كتأثير صدمة من العولمة من طاقة [نون-رنوبل] مواطن, إستهلاك, إنتاج ونقل

كارثة طبيعيّة وكوارث [من مد] يتلقّى يكون خشيت ويكون السبب من التدمير ال [سفيليسأيشن]. ذكرت طوفان يقع كلعنة الإلهة لتمرد ضدّ الأوامر ال [ألميغتي] يتلقّى يكون في النصوص مقدّسة. مناخ تغير يسبّب أوّليّة يظهر واجبة إلى إذاعة من خضراء منزل [غس ميسّيون] إلى يعلن [سري] الكوارث لجنس بشريّ عبر العالم. الخسارة ال [أغريكلتثرل لند], غابة تغطية نتيجة العولمة من [إيندوستريل برودوكأيشن] عمليات يؤسّس على موردات [نون-رنوبل] يؤسّس مناخ تغير نتيجة من المحاولات لعولمة من موردة [نون-رنوبل] يؤسّس [أوربن هبيتت]. [رنوبل نرج] المستقبل بما أنّ هو قد كان المصدر أساسيّة لألفية. هناك حاجة أن يؤمّن حماية من المستقبل اجتماعيّة عبر الكلمة من الكوارث بيتيّة أنّ يكون [من مد]. هناك حاجة أن يقلّد الإستهلاك ال [غغ] يصدر [فوسّيل فول] يؤسّس خدمات ومنافع.

يعتبر الصيغة مفصّلة من ال الورقة على إيمان يؤسّس حلول وحكم هيكل ل يخفّف المناخ تغير الحقيقة أنّ موردة [نون-رنوبل] يؤسّس طاقة لا يتلقّى مستقبل وهو يتلقّى تقييم الإستجابات إلى مناخ تغير يكون جعلت, تقييمات من الأجهزة ل يخفّف التأثير صدمة المناخات, تحليل الحواجز يواجه في التزويد من كيوتو بروتوكول إذاعة يستهدف ويخاطب الإكراهات في التطوير إستراتيجية واقتراح لقابل للمحافظة تطوير إستراتيجية على صعيد البيئة. يدعو المؤلفة لتبن من على صعيد البيئة آمنة وشاملة حكم هيكل [سسلّي] ل على صعيد البيئة [سوستينبيليتي] و [سسلّي] عدالة. هو أيضا دعا لإيمان إبداعيّة يؤسّس إستراتيجيات ل يقلّل الإذاعة من خضراء منزل غازات وأخرى [سستميك] عاملات يصحب مع عدائيّة تطوير نموذج على صعيد البيئة.

غيّرت في المناخ مع إرتفاع في درجة حرارة الأرض, تغير في سقوط مطر أساليب سبّبت واجبة إلى إذاعة الغازات أنّ يكون يرفع الدرجة حرارة الأرض بما أنّ المبلغة من خضراء منزل غازات يولد يكون كثير أكثر من القدرة من التغطية خضراء ل يمتصّ. [فلت] تأثير صدمة يكون في كلّ مكان إلى ما بعد ال [نأيشنل بووندري]. هناك عدّة يسجّل بيّنات أنّ قد سبّب أمم أن يأخذ على التحدي من شاملة يسخّن [.ون] لون بين الحكومات على مناخ تغير قد كان اجتماع ويتدارس على الإصدار. هناك عدّة وطنيّة إستجابات وإتفاقات دوليّة. مؤخّرا قد عبّر عن الصين و [أوس] إتفاق عمل على مناخ تغير. يتكلّم على مناسبة من [أبك] قمة في سيدني, أستراليا [مر.]. أبقى [هو] [جينتو] أنّ "الالأمم المتّحدة [فرموورك كنفنأيشن] سوفت بقيت القناة رئيسيّة للجهود دوليّة" أن يخاطب مناخ تغير".

الرابعة تقييم قد أعطى تقرير من اللوح بين الحكومات على مناخ تغير ([إيبكّ]), أيّ أكّد النتيجات بعيد المدى أنّ استمرّ شاملة يسخّن تلقّى عبر العالم, [فرش يمبتثس] إلى يجد حل إلى المشكلة. صنع ال [سومّيت ميتينغ] من ال [غرووب وف يغت] بلاد ([غ8]) يمسك في ألمانيا في الشهر يونيو - حزيران 2007 يوافق أن يطلق مبادرات جديدة لعمل جماعيّة ب على حدّ سواء أمم غنيّة و [دفلوب كونتري] سريع النموّ أن يقاتل مناخ تغير. في ه رابعة تقييم تقرير, ال [إيبكّ], ال [إينترنأيشنل بودي] أنّ يتلقّى المهمة من يزن بيّنة علميّة على مناخ تغير, يدلّ إلى بيّنة محدّدة أنّ [غسس] تركيز شاملة جوّيّة من دفيئة أساسيّة مثل [كربون ديوإكسيد] تلقّى "زاد بشكل ملحوظ نتيجة أنشطة إنسانيّة منذ 1750". صاد هذا غازات كان الأرض حرارة أنّ خلاف ذلك كان قد أشعّ خارجا داخل فراغ. إن التزايد من دفيئة غازات والناتجة يسخّن من الكوكب كان سمحت أن يستمرّ [أونشكد], سيضطرّ الإنسانية بالإجماع واجهت عدّة نتيجات. حالة جفاف و [دسرتيفيكأيشن] بين التأثير صدمة من مناخ تغير. الموقعة [فوكسنغ] ورقة على التحديات ويقدّم حلول ل يتوقّف التأثير صدمة من مناخ تغير من خلال تبن الإجراءات بما في ذلك الإيمان يؤسّس إستجابات شخصيّة لتحويل من إستهلاك عدائيّة على صعيد البيئة, إنتاج, وقت فراغ إستعمال أساليب.

نظّمت حصص من حلقة دراسيّة ومؤتمرات يتلقّى يكون ل يخاطب التحدي شاملة. هناك كيوتو بروتوكول إذاعة أهداف ل أيّ إستراتيجيات وطنيّة يتلقّى يكون [دفيز]. كيوتو أجزت بروتوكول رسميّا يعرف كمنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة [فرموورك كنفنأيشن] على مناخ تغير يتلقّى لم يكن ب بعض من الأمم مهمّة. الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة ولا يجيز أستراليا البروتوكول بما أنّ هم يتلقّون إدراكات ال [كمبتيتيف ديسدفنتج]. هناك إتفاقات ل يقلّد الإذاعات بالسنة 2020 و2050. هناك يتواجد تعبئة مهتزّة من مجتمعة مدنيّة وتعبئة من شباب مجموعة. يعمل عدّة مجموعة للسياسة تأييد ل يطبّق الأهداف ملزمة للإذاعة من خضراء منزل غازات. يتواجد هناك أيضا حركيّة سياسة تأييد ل [ر&د] في [رنوبل نرج] [س ثت] هناك يكون كثير من [رنوبل رسورس] يؤسّس طاقة ل يستبدل الطاقة [نون-رنوبل]. يدعو أحزاب خضراء يتواجد في أكثر من 88 بلاد لإستبدال لدفيئة يلد [فوسّيل فول] يؤسّس مصدر طاقة مع [رنوبل نرج].

[غفين] إدواردز يشترك رأس المناخ وطاقة, [غرينبس] دوليّة [تلك بووت] ماذا الحكومات عبر العالم يستطيع أتمّت أن يخفّف المشكلة أشار الحاجة أن يعيد عبارات البروتوكول أنّ يعترف ال يميّز مسؤولية للأمم مختلفة يستجيب إلى المناخ تغير. هو يشير الحاجة ل ال [دفلوب كونتري] أن يتمّ [ألّ ث] [نيدفول] ولا كرّرت الأغلاط من ال يطوّر بلد - "ركّز على [نونغفرنمنتل ورغنيسأيشن] يتلقّى حقّا على ال يصنع أمم أنّ يضطرّ أتمّت أسود سهم من يعالج المناخ [شنج-ثت] [إيس.يس] فسحة. غير أنّ ماذا يكون أيضا واضحة أنّ [دفلوب كونتري] مثل هند والصين باستمرار يستمرّ يطوّر مع العمل كمعتادة قديمة أسلوب تطوير مقاربة. هم استطاع كنت كرّست ال نفسه أغلاط الالغرب قد جعل في العقود [لت فو]. كنت و, إن هند, الصين وأخرى بلاد يستمرّ أن يجعل أنّ أغلاط, بعد ذلك [رغردلسّ وف] ماذا الالغرب يكون يتمّ أن يعالج المناخ تغير هو مستحيلة".

طوّرت الأجهزة يدافع ل يخفّف المناخ تغير

تكنولوجيا [إنرج فّيسنت] يكون ل يقلّد الإستهلاك من الطاقة. [كفل] روّجت مصابيح يكون كجزء منافع [إنرج فّيسنت] وتجهيزات ل يسهم في التخفيض من خضراء منزل [غس ميسّيون]. هناك أيضا أهداف لإستبدال من [نون-رنوبل] طاقة حشد [رنوبل نرج]. حزب خضراء في ألمانيا [سك] إستبدال [فولّ-سكل] من طاقة [نون-رنوبل] ب [رنوبل نرج] بالسنة 2020. هناك معاهدات أنّ قد كان يقع مع ذلك هم يكون لا بطريقة متديّنة تبعت. بحثت كثير يموّل يكون لبحث ل عولم [رنوبل نرج] يؤسّس خدمات ومنافع. ليس أهداف ملزمة على إذاعة تخفيض هناك بما أنّ جلّيّة من ال [أسبيرأيشنل] توصية من ال [أبك] قمة يستنتج مؤخّرا في سيدني كجزء العمليات لالمنظّمة الأمم المتّحدة [فرموورك كنفنأيشن] على مناخ تغير أن يكون أمسكت في [بلي] في الشهر ديسمبر - كانون الأوّل 2007. هناك [بلن وف كأيشن] خلو من ملزمة سياسات وهدف للإذاعة من خضراء منزل غازات.

مشاكل في الإستراتيجيات

هناك إستراتيجيات أنّ يتلقّى يكون عيّنت مع تمييز شاملة من الحاجة أن يقلّد خضراء منزل إذاعات. [إفن س], يحصل هم يهزم بما أنّ أهداف يكون ثبتت مع يناقض نتيجات ورؤيات. مثلا, [غدب] لا يعتبر حساب التأثير صدمة على بيئة وتكاليف بيتيّة ولذلك ليس لذلك عاملات في الحساب ال [دومستيك برودوكت]. تجاهلت تكاليف ضخمة على بيئات بعد القناعة أنّ [ألّ ث] موردات للإستعمال و [نون-وتيليسأيشن] هم مؤشر من [تشنولوجكل دفلوبمنت] منخفضة. لا يعتبر موطن قابل للمحافظة على صعيد البيئة قيّمة مع [ليفليهوودس] قابل للمحافظة على صعيد البيئة. فصليّة يتمّ يفيد على الزيادة في ال [غدب] لا عاملة الزيادة في خضراء منزل [غس ميسّيون]. [7ث] جيل يعمل مبادرة في كندا مع رفاه قياس عمل في مبادرة ل يحلّل التكاليف بيئيّ وتكلفة النساء [أت هوم]. هم يصدقون أنّ حساب ال [دومستيك برودوكت] ينبغي تضمّنت التكلفة على البيئة أنّ أعمالنا في الهدية يتلقّى www.sustainwellbeing.net. يشترك مايك [نيكرسن] و [جو] [جوردون] يتلقّى يكون لسنون.

يستمرّ أحزاب سياسيّة أن يكون ألهمت برؤيات قصير المدى وهو ليس الى حدّ بعيد خطأهم. [سمبول] يعمل مع المقترعات على نحو شامل ل يأثر التبن متزامنة سياسات. هناك حاجة أن يضمن أعمال متزامنة [مور ند مور] على نحو شامل لأعمال سلميّة, قرارات, إختبار أنّ سيسهم في أمان جماعيّة بيتيّة. يحتاج أحزاب سياسيّة أن يكون ربّيت ل يساند السياسات أنّ يضمن حماية من [ليفليهوودس] قابل للمحافظة على صعيد البيئة ومواطن. عمّاليّة جامعة قد كان أساس, [سوفي] ثقة و [سسغ] جزء من ساحة وطنيّة من غابة عاملات وغابة الناس يساند الحقوق الأرض في مواطنهم تقليديّة من خلال يمحو التأثير صدمة من تشريعات مستعمرة أنّ حرمهم حقوقهم إلى منزل وزراعة أراضي. تعلّقت أحزاب خضراء حول الإصدارات آمنة على صعيد البيئة غير أنّ مقترعاتهم قليل. تعلّقت أكثر من الأحزاب سياسيّة مع إصدارات أنّ يكون أكثر مغري إلى النخبة وال [ميدّل كلسّ] في الهدية فوقيّة.

آخر حاجز كبريات يختبر في الطريق من يحصل إستجابات شاملة ل يخفّف المناخ تغير يستمرّ تسويق من [فوسّيل فول] شديدة إستهلاك أساليب, [أوربن هبيتت] تصاميم, تطوير نموذج, قوميات تنافسيّة ل يبحث العلامات من [فوسّيل فول] أسلوب حياة شديدة, تخفيض قيمة من القابل للمحافظة زراعة إستهلاك أساليب على صعيد البيئة. هناك يتواجد يستمرّ دعم سياسيّة لمنتوجات ثقافيّة وعمليات أنّ يكون معادة إلى وطنيّة وأمان شاملة بيئيّة. بينما هناك يكون إجراءات لبيتيّة [إيمبكت/] بيئة تأثير صدمة تقييمات غير أنّ بعد ذلك يتواجد هناك بشكل ملحوظ غياب الاهتمامات ل يخاطب الجذر أسباب من بيتيّة وكوارث [من مد]. يستمرّ [مرجنليسأيشن] من الإيمان يؤسّس مجموعة بالأهل فكر إلحاديّة أن يكون مشكلة أنّ يحتاج أن يكون خاطبت بما أنّ هم يحتاجون أن يكون أحضرت [أن بوأرد] مع كثير كثير حركية ل يخاطب الشاملة وفرع محلّيّ تحديات.

آمنة وطنيّة [سترتج/] تطوير نموذج على صعيد البيئة يستطيع كنت اعتبرت يحتوي السمات تالي:

1. شكّل
تسويق من إستهلاك آمنة على صعيد البيئة, إنتاج, وقت فراغ إستعمال 2. يثبّط عدائيّة إستهلاك على صعيد البيئة وإنتاج أساليب
3. ترقية من جوار تجارة وتربية ويثبّط عدائيّة تجارة على صعيد البيئة وتربية
4. زراعة
قابل للمحافظة على صعيد البيئة 5. ترقية من قابل للمحافظة نقل نظامات
على صعيد البيئة 6. إيمان أسّس إجراءات لتحويل من وقت فراغ إستعمال أسلوب
7. ترقية وحماية من مواطن
قابل للمحافظة على صعيد البيئة 8. على صعيد البيئة آمنة [إينترست فر] ودين حرّة مالية نظامة
9. نماذج آمنة نجاح

على صعيد البيئة نحو حل

تخفيض في الإذاعة من خضراء منزل غازات من خلال يروّج إجراءات وقرار أساليب أنّ يليّن الإستهلاك من خدمات ومنافع يؤسّس على الإستهلاك من منزل خضراء يصدر [فوسّيل فولس] حرجة أنّ كلّ يتعلّق مع يحمي الإنسانية من التأثير صدمة سلبيّة من مناخ تغير. يحاول يتبع رسم بيانيّ أن يعرض التأثير صدمة وعلاقات أنّ تبن الصلاة 5 يوقّتون يوم على الإستهلاك أساليب. ليس رجال ونساء يتبع الأوامر لصلاة 5 أوقات مرجّحة أن يسمح في إستهلاك الحصص من مساء موقعة عمل إلتزامات أنّ يتطلّب أسفار خارجيّة بما أنّ هذا تدخّل في عمليّة مراعاة من الأمر لصلاة /salah في ال يعيّن ساعات. هو يستطيع كنت بسهولة رأيت أنّ سيضمن تبن من هذا أمر تحويل الحصص الإستهلاك من [فوسّيل فول] وقت فراغ شديدة مثل يذهب إلى قضيب ويرقص قاعات. هذا يستطيع كنت تبنّيت مع عدّة أخرى شخصيّة وجماعة إستجابات ل يقلّد الإذاعة من منازل خضراء. إيمان يظهر يؤسّس إستجابات أن يكون أكثر فعّالة وهم يحتاجون أن يكون روّجت بما أنّ ل هذا هناك ما من حاجة أن يجعل جهود إضافيّة. يظهر جمعية من `محافظة' أن يكون أكثر واحدة من الإستجابة أنّ بعض رجال ونساء يمكن يتلقّى لاتّصال من إيمان يؤسّس إجراءات. غير أنّ بعد ذلك هو مهمّة أن يرى الأهمية من التبن من إيمان يؤسّس إجراء لبيتيّة فاعليّة, أمان, صلاحية, مرغوبيّة وشرعية. إيمان يؤسّس إستجابات عاديّة ويحتاج هم فقط أن يكون روّجت لمساهمتهم في الرفاه بيئيّة في الشخصيّة, جماعة, اجتماعيّة, وطنيّة ومستويات شاملة. هناك حاجة ملحّة ل ال نفس.

إيمان شخصيّة يؤسّس إستجابات حرجة ل يقلّد الإذاعة من خضراء منزل غازات. يوقّت صلاة 5 يوم ل يغيّر وقت فراغ إستعمال أسلوب يميّز أنّ وقت فراغ إستعمال أساليب واحدة من الإلتزامات أساسيّة اجتماعيّة أنّ يستهلك أكثر من ال [فوسّيل فول] يؤسّس خدمات ومنافع. أمر لصلاة عاديّة عبر النصوص دينيّة رغم أنّ هو يظهر أكثر [بروميننتلي] يمارس برجال ونساء يتبع الاتّصالات [موهمّد], يصدق أن يكون الرسول متأخّرة ب [موسليم] (رجال ونساء يقدّم إلى [ث ويلّ] من إلهة/[ألّه/]. /.
لا يزور رجال ونساء يمارس صلاة (صلاح في العربية) يرقص قاعات وقضبان بما أنّ هم يكون أكثر تعلّقت حول يصلّي في وقت. صلاة في الالعصر, بعد غروب وبعد ذلك صلاة عقب يجعلهم عشاء في المساجد حددت إلى بؤرة على العمل ضروريّة فقط. صلاة وذكرى ل هم وسيلة من استرخاء, إجهاد يوقف, مشركة, ومشاركة وهكذا فوق. [س/ه] ركزان على الأوامر أساسيّة في الجوار وعنايات ل هم بما أنّ يؤمر من خلال الرسل. ثانيّا, يمتنع هم من إستهلاك افتضاحيّة يتبع الأمر الله ل لا يخلّ القفز/حدود مجموعة بالله. ل يرتدي يصدق هم أنّ الثوب جيّدة أنّ من تقوى يحدّ بالمدى إلى أيّ هم يتبعون الأوامر الله. هم يمتنعون من حالة يتبع الأوامر ضدّ ال نفس مثلما هم يصدقون في يدعم المعايير جيّدة من خثيّة. هم يبحثون مغفرة من الله لالوثيق [سنفول] ينفّذ قصدا أو عرضا. لذلك يوقّت تبن الصلاة 5 يوم يعمل كحارسة ل [ألّ ث] تصرفات أنّ يتلقّى يكون حظّرت في الكتب مقدّسة عبر الأديان. هم يمنحون من المعيش لفقراء يتبع الأوامر ل [زكت], [كهيرت], [فيترا] و [سدقه]. أردت هم لا يبدّدون ولذلك لاحظت الجيّدة من المثل أعلى يتّصل من خلال الشعار من `نفاية لا, لا'. هم يسمحون في إستهلاك آمنة على صعيد البيئة ويصدق في إعتدال في كلّ أوامر. ضمنت الممر متوسّطة يتّصل من خلال الأوامر الله على أحسن وجه من خلال التبن من صلوات إجباريّة 5 أوقات [ا] يوم. رجال ورجال يتبع الأوامر في [شيف] [سنكلب] [ترو] لذكرى [إيشور] مرجّحة أن يتلقّى المماثلة جيّدة تصرف أساليب أنّ يكون على صعيد البيئة آمنة. أثر قدمهم معدّلة بيجيّة مرجّحة أن يكون جدّا منخفضة. هذا يحتاج أن يكون أسّست مع اتّصال من أكثر بيئيّ [أوديتس/] ماء تدقيقات/خضراء [أوديتس/] طاقة [أوديتس/] ورقيّة [أوديتس/] [فوود ينتك] [أوديتس-] [ا] [سري] التدقيقات أنّ رجال ونساء يتبع الأمر الله ينجزون أو افترضت هم أن ينجز. هم ضمنت تقيّة تصرف [مور ند مور], إستهلاك وإنتاج أساليب. ركّزت لتدقيق بيجيّة, تضمن وأحبّ حكم أن يروّج جيل من أكثر إستجابات تقيّة بما أنّ هم يكون مباشرة اقترنت إلى تخفيض في الإذاعة من خضراء منزل غازات.

Inter faith commons

Centre for Ecological Audit, Inclusion and Governance(CEASIG) believes in the inter faith commons that 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 need to bring to the fore for 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. Muslims 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. They need to know more and more that the commands followed by Muslims are the commands that were communicated through the earlier messengers also. Muslims rightly believe that 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.

Establish prayer at the appointed hours 5 times (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 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 Monotheistic 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 does 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.

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 shopping malls will no longer expand and remain within ecologically sustainable limits. For this to happen, it is important to support adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework proposed by several organisations.

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. It is not the after death concerns that are important but signs of ecological distress affecting the lives of billions that are clear indicators for change and 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. No longer, atheistic postmodernist notions of laissez faire regimen of cultural, political and moral governance can be encouraged to further 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 the anti-church and anti-Islamic communications that are the major hurdles in the way of change. 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 resistance of farmers in India as they did not want to give up on their only source of ecologically sustainable livelihoods through farming.

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 through 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 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

Ecologically sustainable and socially inclusive strategies include Multiplication of carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions across the cities and villages ,Multiplication of ecologically safe responses through promotion of green journalism, catalysing green politics, transformation of leisure use patterns ,calculation of ecological footprints, eliminating ecological rucksacks, ecological Audit of the consumption patterns, production patterns, Ecological Audit of the transport patterns, Ecological Audit of the leisure use patterns, Interfaith dialogue for addressing the climate change, farmer’s suicides, and social security for workers in unorganized sector, transforming finance sector through appreciation of the common commands for prayer, donation, compassion, charity and prohibition of usury, adultery, and homosexuality, National/ regional/ city/ village based conventions on Inter Faith common responses for addressing the climate change, carbon neutral Youth colloquiums / meetings / Majlis-e-Naujawan/ Yuva Harit Bharat Sabha/../../

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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