Poor people don’t contribute to the global warming, but they are worst affected by it

The Government First Grade College, Malur, Kolar district has organised a two-day long seminar on ‘Global climate change-issues, challenges and policy implications’ on August 25 and 26.
The event was sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC). It provided an opportunity to the teaching faculty and students to hear the presentations by a number of experts on the subject hailed from several parts of country including Chennai, New Delhi, Haryana and also Bengaluru. S. Bisalaiah, former vice chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS-B), GKVK, Bengaluru, delivered the keynote address. He warned that humanity has to face inevitable and unpalatable consequences which are certainly dangerous if we fail to address the global climate change issues.
“It is time to act in the framework of sustainable development, so that humans could live and prosper in harmony with nature, rather than at nature’s expense,” Mr. Bisalaiah said.
“As species, we are doomed to extinction if we continue our current pattern of production and consumption, and fail to reduce our carbon footprint,” he warned. He held ugly display of wealth responsible for the present state of climate condition. “Poor people don’t contribute to the global warming, but they are worst affected by it,” he said. To drive home his point, Mr. Bisalaiah said higher the temperature, greater the chances of dengue which primarily takes toll on poor people.
The GFG College principal Chadrashekhar V. Nangali presided. “In the folk tradition there were methods to ease global warming,” he said.
Ganapathi Venkatasubramanian, Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, Chennai, Shivaramu H.S. of GKVK, Bengaluru, Prakash Vir Khatri of Shraddhananda College, Delhi University, New Delhi were among others who presented papers on various topics.
Source : The Hindu