Community Charter on the Climate Crisis
Over the last few years, the term “climate change” has reverberated in our environment through media, scientific and public discourses, national and international seminars and scholarly articles. We have been bombarded with the images of melting glaciers, polar bears precariously balancing on thin ice slabs and projections of rising sea levels. Most of these discussions have left us, the common citizen, far behind.
In our own immediate environment, the devastation that Super cyclone resulted in Orissa, the terror of the Tsunami that struck fishers in Nagapattinam and tourists in Sri Lanka, the great cloudburst over Mumbai, the unprecedented floods in Rajasthan have given us some glimpses of what climate crisis could actually translate into when it decides to visit our lives. As with almost every natural calamity it is the poor, dis-privileged and the disadvantaged who are devastated most when the climate crisis comes calling. But unfortunately and mostly by design these very people are left out of all the discussions on climate crisis.
The Community Charter on Climate Crisis (CCCC) initiative envisages that community takes lead to identify the effects of climate change in their locality and acknowledge their wisdom and skill to cope up these changes. Living Farms is a part of this program.
This is based on an article by Sri P V Satheesh (Director, Deccan Development Society)
