{"id":6034,"date":"2013-05-26T05:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2013-06-07T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:49:34","slug":"year-4-month-5-day-26-directly-from-my-heart-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-5-day-26-directly-from-my-heart-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 5, Day 26: Directly From My Heart To You"},"content":{"rendered":"

India West talks about the economic implications of climate change<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sustainable development that mitigates the impact of climate change for India\u2019s poor can only be achieved by the devolution of the Indian government, stated prominent social activist Sunita Narain at a March 27 lecture at Arizona State University.
\n\u201cGetting the model of development right so that everyone has access to health care, water and energy supplies is only achievable when the government is de-centralized,\u201d Narain told India-West in an interview after the lecture, which was organized by ASU\u2019s Global Institute of Sustainability.<\/p>\n

The director general of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, Narain has received numerous accolades for her work, including the Padma Shri \u2013 India\u2019s highest honor \u2013 in 2005. In 2007, Narain was named by Time magazine as one of India\u2019s 15 most influential people. Foreign Policy magazine has thrice named Narain one of the world\u2019s best intellectuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate change is already hurting the world\u2019s most poor and vulnerable,\u201d stated Narain, explaining that rainwater \u2013 a major resource for India\u2019s largely agrarian population \u2013 has been inconsistent, with more rainfall, but for a fewer number of days.<\/p>\n

\u201cFarmers are very desperate today. This is their livelihood; it is the only thing they know. And we can send them to cities to get jobs, but the urban sector doesn\u2019t have the ability to absorb all those people,\u201d stated Narain.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A smallpox-infested atmospheric blanket offered to the world’s poor. May 14:<\/p>\n

As rising levels of carbon dioxide push the greenhouse effect into overdrive, agriculture all over the world is going to be affected; harvests will shrink, crops will come under attack from invasive parasites and diseases, and inevitably subsistence farmers and small landholders in the world’s poorest countries are going to suffer. In comparison to rich and developed countries, Bangladesh’s carbon footprint is statistically insignificant, yet its citizens are facing imminent displacement from their lands, lives and hopes due to rising sea levels \u2014 and this is just one example of a worldwide phenomenon. The cruel irony of global warming is that while the greenhouse emissions triggering planetary warming are produced by the richest and most privileged among us, those who are already economically and politically disenfranchised will reap the whirlwind. <\/p>\n

History notes many cases of intentional genocide in the service of colonialism and economic expansion. Climate change’s impact on the world’s poorest people wasn’t planned, but that’s no consolation. It falls to the developed world to act responsibly on the climate crisis, or to shoulder the blame for a catastrophe with both environmental and humanitarian dimensions.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Published.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India West talks about the economic implications of climate change: Sustainable development that mitigates the impact of climate change for India\u2019s poor can only be achieved by the devolution of the Indian government, stated prominent social activist Sunita Narain at a March 27 lecture at Arizona State University. \u201cGetting the model of development right so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34,44],"tags":[733,680,241],"class_list":["post-6034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-india","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6034\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}