Should We All Join Greta's Climate Change Revolt?

    • Times of India
    • Publish Date: Sep 27 2019 6:11PM
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    • Updated Date: Sep 27 2019 6:11PM
Should We All Join Greta's Climate Change Revolt?

You might want to call Greta Thunberg, teenage climate activist, a world-historical figure. A short address by her was a highlight of the UN climate summit this week. “How dare you,” she asked assembled country heads, in the context of their inaction on climate change. Her rage encapsulates one of the prisms through which climate change is viewed, the need to avoid burdening the next generation with an intractable problem. Economic cycles and threat of conflict are indeed serious and immediate problems. But global warming caused by human activity is by far the world’s most impactful collective long-term problem. Tackling it needs special efforts.

Despite naysayers, the science on climate change reflects wide consensus and is the outcome of extensive collaboration. An IPCC special report last year observed that human activities are estimated to already have caused 1°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels. Its impact has begun to show up as an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme events. In India, it is visible in the pattern of rainfall. If the evidence is overwhelming and countries are willing to set themselves national targets to limit emissions, why is international coordination on the issue difficult to achieve?

Mitigation efforts, which address the causes, do have an immediate economic cost. The trade-off is tricky and everybody is not on the same page about how much price they want to pay in the present to save the world in the future. Moreover, the industrialised world appears unwilling to accept differentiated responsibilities for which, however, there is a scientific reason. Anthropogenic global warming is on account of both past and current emissions. Therefore, the responsibility of the industrialised world, which is also better endowed in terms of resources and technology for mitigation, is greater.

Even if it is challenging to arrive at a consensus on assigning responsibilities among countries for mitigation, a lot more cooperation is possible in another area. The adverse impact of climate change shows up periodically in all countries. Low income countries need help in adaptation, or ways to address the impact. This is an area where countries which make up a forum such as G20 should do a lot more. All country heads owe it to their youth to take a constructive approach. To quote Thunberg: “If you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you.” 

 


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Nishita PALLAVI MODEL SCHOOL, ALWAL . .

I think I must join her because she has stood up for such an important issue. She has got the courage to question everyone regarding it. We must all come together and save our planet. Fighting amongst ourselves will be harmful for all of us. Global warming is such an issue about which everyone knows but still does not care. Global warming is harmful for the whole planet and not only for me or you but for all the organisms living on it.

Abhigyan Singh Radcliffe School

According to me we should join her as we are also sailing in the same boat as she in,we are also facing the same environement crisis.Moreover she has lead as an example on how to lead the change.

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