Climate change is a global issue being faced collectively today by all the nations of the world and is also a challenge to international governance. The recent report by International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) exhorts that ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ must be carried out if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Every dweller of this planet is not only somehow contributing to the global warming but is directly affected by global warming through heatwaves, droughts, diseases, rising sea-levels and much more. Children are least responsible for the cause of global climate change but will have to bear the brunt of its devastating impact on the planet if not stopped. These expanding issues of the today’s world are fading the international boundaries away and require people-to-people and state-to-state ties to develop cooperation in order to protect the planet’s environment. In many parts of the world today, particularly the developing countries, there are human rights activists, civil rights activists, women rights activists and LGBTQ+ rights activists but, there is a vacuum that needs to be filled by the activists specifically raising the issue of planet’s warming, greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and the use of unrecyclable materials. Literacy is the primary step and the best way forward to identify the problem to be figured out. The basic responsibility of an activist is literacy in all forms; educating as a teacher, lecturer in a school, presentations on TV, lobbying the legislature and international assemblies, social networking, blogging, and writing in all media. Activists are not only supposed to provide constructive criticism on government policies and all contributors to the climate change issue, but also must put forward practical solutions to compel local and international governments to act wisely. Climate change solutions require unique changes in our way of thinking and our lifestyle. It also requires policies that result in a safer and healthier planet for ourselves, our children, and future generations. Each of us today needs to be a climate change activist to the best of our abilities.

Why climate change activism?

2019 Spring National Meeting

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