Dia Mirza talks with Team Banega Swath India on why the environmental crisis must be dealt with now.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change precautioned that weather change is the greatest threat to humankind. Scientists emphasize the urgent need for action to combat climate change. What do we need to do to restrict global warming, and why do we need to act now to tackle climate emergencies? Actress Dia Mirza, Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Program, and UN Secretary-General of the SDGs will talk to Team Banega Swath India about the urgent need to deal with the climate crisis.
COVID19 again is an outcome of our treatment of nature. How essential is it that we deal with this immediately? The terrible truth is that the climate crisis is an existential concern. The climate crisis threatens the human species. We are accountable for the climate crisis; human actions have increased the temperature and are now making the changes we see – vigor and commonness of forest fires, floods, drought, cyclones, storms, dust storms, and air pollution exasperates the issues.
In India itself, we are evolving so aware and encountered by the calamities we are experiencing collectively. If we trade in wildlife because of deforestation, we bring organisms living in the wild and habitats. This is what has formed the global disaster that we are sharing. The climate crisis, as the IPCC report, which is the most authentic intergovernmental and scientific report, says that it is code red for humanity.
Not only does it raise the climate by 1.5 degrees, but we continue to manage ourselves and the economy, with an expected rise of almost 2 degrees. Fortunately, the United Nations has finally realized that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis that puts everyone at risk.
No region on earth is unaffected by the climate crisis. For those of us who were grown in the ’80s, the conversation about the climate crisis began, and I think something felt like something would happen in the distant future. You probably didn’t understand how urgent the problem was and how critical it needed to be, but this generation, born into a climate crisis, faces the consequences of our negligence and makes a choice. Is up to us. Changing the way we produce, the way we live, the way we work, and the way we function as people on this planet.
How far have we gone before Glasgow tackled the climate crisis and made plans to stick to it? Deer-Here I quote the Secretary-General. He said the results of COP26, including comments from COP26, are compromises and reflect the interests, contradictions, and conditions of political will in today’s world. This is an essential step, but not adequately. As many have come to expect, nearly 200 countries have adopted the Glasgow Agreement on Climate Change, and not only has this agreement been adopted, but the conditions for climate change are global climate. It will change radically because it is the first to recognize an emergency and cite the latest IPCC findings.
Schools in the capital were closed due to air pollution. Children and parents were excited after they finally caused a pandemic. Do you think the state is accomplishing enough about air pollution?
What can the general public do with the climate change caused by industry? Call it. Name your industry, find out who it is, call and write a letter. Interview parliamentarians and authorities, write letters, and look for changes. Delhi has a great group of women who call themselves Warrior Mothers, asking all the right questions, asking for answers, and proposing policy changes. You are seeking the law.
Many parents run their businesses with industry. They need to consider how their industry affects the elderly in their children and their families. I hate using the word ordinary citizen because everyone is an extraordinary being who has the power to influence and speak.
This release is articulated by Prittle Prattle News in the form of an authored article.
Image Courtesy: Dia Mirza
