Climate change is a fact as we witness unusual droughts and heavy rain storms, temperature increase and air pollution. We need strategies to save our future generations not to suffer?
Your concern is genuine Dr. Gafoor. See what is happening in Chennai. Every one now a day is talking about climate change. But most of the people really are Hippocratic in this regard. See it took more than two decades to accept reality of climate change. We shall have to formulate strategy at global level as well as local level. Locally we shall have to revive our traditional knowledge which have evolved in thousands of years and is based on local needs and conditions. For example traditional system of water management, biofertilizers, landraces etc. will help to mitigate and adapt to ill effect of climate change.
Thanks Dr Mishra. Indigenous technologies at local and global levels may help. But something is required to save our children.
Dear Abdul,
the way Paris appears to go, it will be too little too late, even if substantial results will be obtained on some issues.
Our Indonesian farmers, who I consider to belong to my children, suffer and their country is a large contributor to emissions. These are contributions that can be reduced with an international effort in addition to larger national and local efforts.
And this can be said about many other countries but most substantially from richer countries where only a consumption revolution would be able to reduce contributions to emissions sufficiently, in addition to getting out of fossil fuels immediately.
Another puzzle that needs an answer as soon as possible, without waiting with the above, is how much natural contributions there are to emissions of greenhouse gasses, often with dangerous positive temperature feedbacks. These are phenomena as melting ice in which dissolved methane is coming out, permafrost melting, smoldering peat soils, ocean bottom and ocean underground emissions of greenhouse gases, which all have been reported recently to occur at a lot of places. We must estimate these natural sources and find ways to reduce their impacts.
If we want our offspring to be proud of us, many more efforts are needed, scientific ones, applied to the above mentioned problems, but also applying political pressure on policies for changing livelihoods that produce appreciably less emissions where that is done now most. This must become part of our curricula from primary school to post-docs, including their teachers, where more efforts should go to the above.
Only with such a strong focus from now onwards do we at least get proper ideas where we stand in the wish for survival of our species. Because there is nothing less at stake than this survival in a much more stable environment.
Thanks for bringing up that question, Kees
Thanks Dr. C.J. Stigter for highlighting some strategies to save our future.
Dr Ghafoor very pertinent issue , you have raised. Time has come to relook afresh about the impact of our agricultural practices on the soil as well as environment ecology . how do different agricultural practices aid in offering ecological services, either through change in current land use pattern or having more comprehensive relook towards sustaining soil health on a long term basis. but surely agricultural has to be linked with climate change -issues more stringently than in the past ?
Thanks all the colleagues for participating in discussion. Let us listen more from others.
Thanks all the colleagues for participating in discussion. Let us listen more from others.
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