Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Millions displaced by cyclone in India and Bangladesh
The cyclone has killed at least 210 people in the flood-prone region, though officials said the death toll could rise, and rescuers have struggled to reach millions still marooned.
Cyclone Aila hit parts of coastal Bangladesh and eastern India on May 25, triggering tidal surges and floods.
Officials say more than one million people have been displaced in India's Sundarban islands in West Bengal state alone, one of the world's biggest tiger reserves and which is already threatened by global warming.
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Labels: Bangladesh, cyclone, cyclone aila, flood, food and drinking water, global warming, tidals, worlds biggest tiger reserves
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Focus on renewable energy for sustainable development
The National Action Plan identified harnessing renewable energy, such as solar power, and energy efficiency as central to India's fight against global warming and said a climate change fund would be set up to research "green" technologies.
The national policy reflected India's current stand on climate change and would not please rich western countries asking for more commitment from one of the world's top polluters, experts said.
"Our vision is to make India's economic development energy efficient," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on releasing the national plan. "Our people have a right to economic and social development and to discard the ignominy of widespread poverty."
In spite of its pledge to clean technology, coal remains the backbone of India's power sector -accounting for about 60 percent of generation -with the government planning to add some 70,000 megawatts in the next five years.
In a report released this month, Goldman Sachs said climate change could deplete India's cultivable land area and productivity, reduce labor productivity and increase the threat of toxic and chemical waste in the environment."
Although such dire prognostications are premature, urbanization, industrialization and ongoing global climate change will take a heavy toll on India's environment, if not managed better," it said.
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Labels: chemical waste, climate change, environment, global warming, india, industrialization, National Action Plan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, reduce, renewable energy, solar power
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
(A list of the Gandhi-Satyagraha-King linked events appears on the below.)
In the face of global warming, a shrinking polar ice-cap and a widening ozone hole over the South Pole, the individual human may feel as lost as the polar bear looking for a way out of a maze ice floes in the disturbing yet beautiful photo by Subhankar Bannerjee.
In ‘The Way We Live Now' section of the New York Times Magazine last Sunday (April 20), Michael Pollan poses the question which we all must have asked ourselves: "Why Bother?"
There is no question that the direction of ‘civilization' is taking is towards changing this once green planet (really more blue than green, as three-fourths of it is ocean) into one-fourth yellow desert and three-quarters fishless sea, enveloped in gray smog.
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Labels: 60th anniversary, climate change, Earth, global warming, heart, life, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Michael Pollan, New York, ozone hole, Satyagraha, shrinking, South pole, survival
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