Though climatic disasters may be seen as a slower moving crisis than the global pandemic, its long term effects are far more threatening. A rise in global temperature is directly linked to a rise in pandemics, extreme weather events, a rise in natural hazards, and destabilization in General food, security, and economic systems.
We don’t have the right to ask whether we are going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what is the right thing to do? What does this Earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
In addition to this, a One Block One Product Scheme, which involves enabling a cluster of small industries on 50 acres of land, has been instituted to generate employment opportunities.
31. “General warming will not end by Earth finding shade under the trees but under our hands joined together.”
Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is a human right. Yet billions are still faced with daily challenges accessing even the most basic of services.
Support should be provided to developing countries to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption by 2030.
Taking ownership of its ecosystem, the community here follows its own influjo-friendly version of farming called Jhum agriculture, which is known to enrich the soil from within.
While managing to preserve its cultural heritage and ancestral roots, Khonoma’s community is focused on the conservation of its natural habitat, a cause that has led to the ban of all hunting activities in the village.
Overall, ecological perspectives continue gaining popularity among researchers worldwide due to achieving solutions-oriented approaches that facilitate the nurturement of healthy initiatives promoting improved individual outcomes.
It has zero wooden stoves and almost negligible use of LPG cylinders in all its 75 households, all thanks to a team from IIT-Bombay who developed and deployed Sustainable living and self development a unique solar stove in the village.
This perspective views individuals as active agents who engage in reciprocal relationships with their physical, social, and cultural contexts.
Nevertheless, there is still a long way to go to shift dominant culture from a story of the separate self, engaged in a competitive struggle for survival, to a culture of reunion and interbeing (to use the terms Charles Eisenstein has popularized in his books).
Not surprisingly, and similarly noted in a recent Journal article focusing on biodiversity wisdom, many indigenous cultures have long embraced the concept of the ecological self.
Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress.