{"id":597,"date":"2019-09-29T00:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T00:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itisaras.org\/projectdhaara\/?p=597"},"modified":"2020-07-12T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T13:02:33","slug":"hope-action-resilience-role-of-youth-in-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisaras.org\/projectdhaara\/2019\/09\/29\/hope-action-resilience-role-of-youth-in-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE, ACTION, RESILIENCE: ROLE OF YOUTH IN CLIMATE CRISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.”<\/p>– Barack Obama<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change is happening now and it is undeniable. Climate crisis is gripping the world today. We need to act now to save the planet from becoming uninhabitable in the future. There is Climate hope. Young people need to lead action and build resilience to successfully tackle this crisis. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What crosses your mind when an aged farmer in a village in Karnataka says that he cannot predict the weather patterns like before, or when women in Ugandan village talks about never-seen-before torrential rains, resultant floods and severe drought thereafter, or, when the indigenous tribes in Amazon speak up for their environmental and territorial rights as Amazon fire rages, or when you read about IPCC warning that a 3.6o<\/sup>C rise above pre-industrial levels would precipitate an \u201cextensive\u201d extinction of species across the globe, rendering much of the globe uninhabitable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The signs are clear.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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When read together, these stories tell us about the effects of climate change that we are faced with today. The evidence of rapid climate change is compelling ranging from, global temperature rise, warming oceans, shrinking ice sheets, glacial retreat, decreased snow cover, sea-level rise, declining artic sea ice, extreme events such as droughts, hurricanes, floods, ocean acidification, intense rainfall to rapid increase in pandemics and creation of a new set of refugees-\u2018climate refugees\u2019. Climate change is happening now and it is undeniable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The science is clear<\/em><\/strong>. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ninety-seven per cent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. While there is hope to tackle this crisis, it calls for urgent human action to reduce the emissions of harmful gases into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is climate hope.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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According to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency, almost all renewables could be as cheap or cheaper than fossil fuels by 2020. And it\u2019s not just coal. Renewables are also starting to close in on natural gas \u2013 often labelled a \u201cbridge fuel\u201d between fossil fuels and renewable energy. David Roberts at Vox <\/em>said it well, \u201cThe natural gas \u2018bridge\u2019 to sustainability may be shorter than expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world over, steps are being taken towards bringing suitable changes in respective national legal framework, fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions, infrastructural changes, behavioral changes, encouraging development<\/g> of localized green solutions. However, in the process of achieving these, the following need to be observed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n