No one is focusing on the root cause rather fighting for vaccines and it's hard to reduce the climate change vulnerability in this competitive world where everyone wants to boost up their economy by anyway.

Thanks Muhammed Ashraful Alam Yes you are right. Many of us and our corporate system have been trying to hide this climate change issue for a long, Of course, we need to take care of our economy at the same time we need to take care of our environment. The amount of environmental damage we as human-created, itis more than a million years of damage. AT the end of the day, we need to understand that nature does not need us, we as humans need nature. This is high time to act on this issue. Thanks again.

Thanks Hermann Gruenwald Yes, I do agree with you. We need to work in multi-levels (individually, family, community, originally, nationally, and internationally). Maybe there are many other layers. As academics and researchers, we do have an undeniable three responsibilities: 1) unlearn (knowledge/things are not working from our historical knowledge) and relearn (new knowledge, traditional knowledge) 2) take responsibility to practice, teach, and building solidarity.

Thanks Nikhil Kumar We need to act before it is too late.

Thanks, Frank T. Edelmann, for your comments. I agree with you regarding acting locally; at the same time, we are part of global. If some parts are working locally and other parts denying. It is going to affect all of us. Therefore, I personally, we need to work locally, and at the same time, we need to create global solidarity so that those who are acting and/or denying climate change we can try to convince and enforce them. There is only one earth that we are living in.

yes Frank T. Edelmann you are right. Climate change will be with us forever. If we dot act now, maybe there are many pandemics that are yet to come.

Yes. The way we have dealt with nature as there is no tomorrow. This pandemic has definitely taught us a lesson that we can minimize our requirements and we must continue to help each other, grow together. No body can claim now that we are advanced as per as life and health is concerned. It is evident that we are master in creating health related issues and then solved it and keep making others fools

Many Thanks, Sanjay Kumar for your comments. Yes, well said. We, as humans, have enough evidence and guidelines regarding why we need to take responsibility. It is high time to be responsible both wasy individually and collectively.

I think yes.

Many thanks, Frank T. Edelmann This is helpful. I will read it soon. I also wrote a manuscript on the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Immigrant-Indigenous Family Story on Reconnection, Resistance, and Resiliency, which will come online soon.

Ranjan Datta

Dear Researcher,

This is a wonderful question or I think I should say a bouquet of questions.

You have asked whether there are lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied to the climate crisis. I may sound a little pessimistic, but still, I have to say this. If man wanted to learn a lesson that can be applied to the climate crisis, man would not have waited till COVID-19. There were many opportunities before this also. I am personally very confident about man's abilities to play with climate crisis.

You have asked that what are the most promising and most challenging solutions to climate change. Well, the air that we breathe in, the water that we drink, the greenery around us, the nature - none of these belong to us, it is unfortunate, but it is a fact that none of these belong to us. We have borrowed it from our future generations. Man needs to realize this. That will probably help him to deal with climate change., that will probably be a solution to this problem.

Sir, last but not the least, you have asked that how can scientists best communicate their work to policy makers to help enact sustainable changes. Well, there is no way left. Scientists have tried everything. The last thing that they can try is to communicate through story telling. Story telling is one of the earliest methods of communication. Our policy makers have not been able to take themselves above the level of story tellers and listeners. So perhaps this method can be tried as the last resort as all other methods have failed.

Sir, please forgive me for my rudeness, if I sounded rude to you. Actually, I am a very simple teacher and researcher. Your question was such a brilliant one that I got excited while I was answering it. I was feeling very helpless and could almost hear nature shouting in pain.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

One of our recent articles (The COVID-19 Pandemic: An Immigrant Family Story on Reconnection, Resistance, and Resiliency) just published by the University of Toronto Press. It is free for all until Nov 2021 from here: https://utpjournals.press/toc/jcfs/51/3-4