Experts lament neglect of environmental issues by govts across the globe.
With the threat of climatic changes and global warming looming large, there is an overwhelming consensus in the science fraternity that the risk is largely caused by humans.
A live discussion, ‘Sandhan’, was organised at Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo Informatics in a bid to spread environmental awareness among youngsters. The session turned out to be a huge success as it drew around 50,000 students from several colleges across the state, including around 18 participants from city colleges. DNA interacted with the experts regarding the growing neglect of environmental issues by governments across the globe.
Mahesh Pandya, director, Paryavaran Mitra; Niyati Mistry, lecturer of geography in Government Arts College, Gandhinagar; and Ravi Varma, enforcement officer, were among those present at the discussion.
“The environmental issues in most countries are lost in the vested interests of various political parties. Issues like climate change and global warming ought to be human centric wherein the poorer, developing countries must be given equal importance and opportunities to meet the environmental crises” says Mistry.
The live discussion was part of the ‘webinar’ seminars, brainchild of education commissioner Jayanti Ravi, being held regularly at BISAG on a channel band to colleges across the state.
“Everyone talks about the way 9/11 affected human rights, created an unjustified war and also about the loss of countless rescue personnel who will be remembered as heroes. But, few will choose to focus on the negative effects of these attacks on the environment as it is not nearly as visible an effect,” says Pandya.
Developing countries such as India are affected the most by the emission. Reasons vary from lacking resources to cope, compared to developed nations, incredible poverty, regions that many developing countries are in happen to be the ones where severe weather will hit the most, small island nations area already seeing sea level rising, among others.
“In developing countries like India, similar programmes should be conducted. We have a huge population and have many environmental problems but we do not have a specific institute dedicated to environmental conservation. Through such sessions, we plan to groom the city’s youth to protect the environment” says Kamal Joshi, state program co-ordinator.
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