After some MPs leave YCP, MLCs are gearing up to follow suit.
Telangana has begun ‘action’ on encroachments in tanks. Hope it is not a token 1-2 clearances.
We seem to have done our bit in peaking the climate crises – the atmosphere has warmed up crossing 1.5 deg C, heading faster towards 3 deg C; global greenhouse gas emissions are rising; one-third of the world is exposed to heat waves; 10-fold increases in wildfires; megadroughts; ice sheets being lost; increasing animal and plant extinctions; deepening genetic diversity losses; weakening global ecosystem. About 10% are living in ‘wretched’ climate conditions already. Over the last 60 years, we have had 7x heatwaves; 3x droughts; 3x crop failures; 3x river floods; and 2x wildfires, indicatively. Leading countries fail on promises of climate accords. Subsidies are still available not to support ‘restoration’. Net-zero contracts, and carbon offset markets are nowhere near reversing this trend. Right now, they are not concrete, more to give a feeling that we are doing something, than real, I guess. On the other hand, climate justice for the NextGen movement is picking up.
The stability of human communities and natural ecosystems is disturbed, by planetary emergencies – socio-economic inequality; climate change; biodiversity loss; pollution; and disease. We need to have dramatic changes, else the consequences are immense, epochal, and catastrophic for all of humanity. Marginal and vulnerable populations would bear the brunt of it. We need social and societal restructuring and adjustments. We need to transition to a new paradigm wholesale. For sure. It is possible. It is possible for the living system of nature, and humanity to thrive together, by being in harmony with nature. In sync with its rhythms. Structurally, culturally, and behaviourally. Within the remits of ecological overshoot thresholds, social justice, today and tomorrow. With decreased resource inequity and consumption for existential needs, rather than greed. With increased regenerative, restorative, sustainable practices practised.
This may mean – rapid decarbonization; correcting market distortions; scaled up natural farming and living, including NF global movement at local levels; no climate unfriendly subsidies, including for chemical fertilizers, pollution, and unsustainable consumption; social-gender-climate justice practices; investment in basic health, education, and living – may be universal. Can we have an education and curriculum of values? Diversity, inclusion, equity, resilience, and sustainability. Can we have frameworks, policies, and budgets in favour of these? Fairshare. Equitable payments. Can we remove incentives for activities that are against these? Can we stop talking in two tongues on these? Can we facilitate and support green architecture, built now for recovery through usage, deployment et al – a la roads, airports, etc.? Can we localize governance in the hands of the poor, vulnerable and marginalized, indigenous communities, and groups? Can we have more accountable, and sensitive social responsibility, beyond % in profits, to % in turnover? Can we build leaders, champions from within restructured institutions, and teams to pursue this? Can we have a cultural movement(s) for this, with ‘stories’, narratives, words, images, videos, language(s), events, practices, symmetry, the play of colours, behaviour, balance, simplicity, health, and truth? And all this now, yesterday.
Can we be in solution(s)? Can we let movement(s), champions, and forces, take off? 10s, 1000s, Lakhs?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, if we flow on the paths of solutions. In N? sanmaargayoga for 7L.
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