This is the rough draft for the paper submitted for IIM Kashipur Organised Conference on Educational Reforms in Higher Education. A par of the letter is shared here: "Dear Dr Muhammad Mukhtar Alam, You will be pleased to know that your proposed paper on “Education and International Development : Integration of ecostrategic thinking in the curriculum and pedagogic practice" has been accepted for presentation at the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur’s forthcoming conference on “Educational Reforms: The Changing Paradigms" at India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi on 25-26 March 2013. The organizing committee has also waived the Registration Fees for your participation."

1. Education And International Development : Integration Of
Ecostrategic Thinking In The Curriculum And Pedagogic Practice
As A Global Imperative For Socially Inclusive And Ecologically
Safe Future Though Addressing Climate Change By
Transforming Ecologically Unsustainable Consumption,
Production And Transport Patterns
Submitted to International Conference on “Educational Reforms: The
Changing Paradigms" at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 25-26 March 2013
organized by Indian Institute of Management Kashipur,Uttarakhand
By
Dr.M. Mukhtar Alam
ED, CARD and ED(H),CEASIG)
Organizations Devoted To Multiplying Responses within and Across the Nations For Mitigating The
Impacts Of Climate Change Through Systemic Interventions In Education, Agriculture, Rural and
Urban Development
306,Rohit House, 3 Leo Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi
Telephone: 0-9873061553, 09968345380
Email: ed@card.org.in, ceasig@gmail.com

2. Abstract : The paper describes the highlight of the proposed discipline
of Ecostrategics by the author and published at http://slideshare.net/mukhtaralam in
the form of a powerpoint presentation. It highlights the urgency of ecotsrategic
thinking for all engaged in education in order to generate simultaneity in the
responses in various forms that has a direct bearing on the processes, policies and
programmes adopted for preparing for transition to post carbon age when the
nonrenewable energy resources would not be there for humanity. Recognizing the
field of education as an important domain of intervention, the paper highlights the
reasons , explains the importance of adoption of ecostrategic thinking and shows how
due to absence of ecostrategic thinking across the domains, desired result for
mitigation of the global challenge of climate change is not visible. COP discussions
are generating result and, it is more often than not the politics of development comes
in the way of effective responses that are needed for mitigating climate change. The
paper shows the contours of what might be the constitutive elements of the corrective
action across the nations and across the disciplines through adoption of ecostrategic
thinking recognizing the interconnected of all human habitations and their survival
equations in the future.
Why Ecostrategics?
• Climate change requires personal, social, organisational, national and international
response
• Non-compliance of globally agreed decisions based on evidences endanger the
interests of nations and future generations
• Conventional definitions of power based on the control of non-renewable resources
are no longer valid and are detrimental to collective human survival interests
Content of Ecostrategics
• Sustainability analysis of the policy proposals-economy, polity, culture
• Criticality analysis of the consumption patterns- the extent to which they are
sustainable and critical- basic needs vs luxury
• Analysis of simultaneity/non-simultaneity in policies of the nations
• Equity analysis of the consumption patterns- whether all have the renewable resource
based consumption
• Analysis of the foreign policy with reference to impact on the sustainability of
consumption and production patterns for example ecostrategic consideration would
require US to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan
• Analysis of tourism policy- ecologically sustainable tourism is the only way out,
tourists encouraged to donate surplus for poor of the world requiring support in the
creation and preservation of ecologically sustainable consumption
Essential qualifications of an ecostrategist
• In dept knowledge of the local habitats with reference to life supporting resources for
example knowledge of all that is available locally for food, transport, housing and so
on.
• Knowledge of pre-petromodern lifestyles and appreciation of ecological sustainability
• Proficiency in the generating reports based on the findings of sustainability analysis
• Command over application of concepts and tools related to sustainability analysis
Environment impact assessment and ecostrategists
• EIAs till now measure the impact on the diversities that is not enough
• It is important to assess whether the infrastructure and processes involved in the
production process will have all the resources in 40th century
• Energy insecure habitats and production processes are not sustainable-skyscrapers
and other non-renewable resource based resource in itself are not sustainable
• Al Gore needs to learn that it is not only the solar panels that ensure ecological
sustainability of boats. He did not realise that all the inputs for the production of

3. components would not be able for the children of 40th century…ensuring 100%
ecologically sustainable production
40th century memorials/benchmarks
• Ecostrategic analysts and policy makers are aware of the interests of the children of
40th century…For example ,it would be certainly ecologicall intelligent if planning
and development factored the interests of children of 40th
century.. State and local
governance institution would do better planning for sustainability of their habitats in
40th
century. chaleeswein sadi ke dilli wale..
• Be always aware whether Indian/Chinese children will have access to the services
and infrastructures in 40th century
• Ecostrategists essentially download the interests of the children of 40th century in
here and now without waiting for miraculous energy and resource solutions
Ecostrategic analysis of Olympics
• We cant have Olympics in the 40th century
• Olympics as it started in Greece were ecologically sustainable
• Local Melas with local game competitions are ecologically sustainable
• Ecologically hostile structures would not be there in 40th century
• Let us halt GHG emissions and stop Olympics
Ecostrategic analysis and commonwealth games
• Land belonging to river bed of Yamuna used for creating the commonwealth village
killing the future of Yamuna
• Mirza Ghalib bemoaned the murder of Urdu poetry and Mughals by British
• Dilli has been looted of the riverbed
• While proposing this ,I had called for halting the commonwealth games. a legacy of
colonial occupation of motherland
Ecostrategic Art and culture
• Products of art and culture to ensure reduction in the emission of GHGs
• Travel inducing cultural engagements to be reduced through promotion of local
carbon neutral cultural engagements
• Ecologically sustainable materials and energy only for production and consumption
of the artistic and cultural products
Ecostrategic transport
• Ecologically sustainable
• Public transport
• Revival of traditional transport system- bullock cart ,horse driven carriages
• Eliminating dependence on non-renewable resource based transport systems
• Promotion of habitats with ecologically sustainable modes of transport
Follow the instructions - an Ecostrategic imperative
• Abidance to the commands of Allah/God/Ishawar/../../ and messengers is an
Ecostrategic imperative
• Do not obey atheistic intellectuals
• Atheistic thinkers continue to misguide while promoting ecologically hostile
liberalism
• Their intellectual uncertainties are getting ecologically detrimental
Ecostrategic communication
• Stop atheistic communication on the secrets of creation and follow the revealed
communication
• Dominance of atheistic super text/ meta narrative on monotheistic science must end
• Resolution needs to be sought in the monotheistic framework as that is the only
framework fit for resolution
• Atheistic debate among the community of atheists will never end
Ecostrategic leisure
• Leisure must be carbon neutral with zero emission of the green house gases that are
avoidable

4. • Culture of dancing and drinking intoxicating drinks and drugs need to be abandoned
as at the so called hi-life
• Psychologically mental wellbeing is possible with the adoption of culture of prayer
and meditation 5/3+1 times a day all the 365/366 days of the years
Preparing for the end of petromodern era
• Shell is calling for meeting the energy challenge
• Humanity may not have full scale replacement of fossil fuel based energy for all the
systems and utilities based on the same
• We must not envisage sustainability of energy intensive urban habitats
• Go for gobar, babool and neem
Ecostrategic campaign
• Promote culture of prayer and meditation
• Adopt interfaith commons for transforming psychologically debilitating, socially
inequitable and ecologically hostile political and cultural order of atheistic leisure
• Eliminate usurious finance system and beat inflationary money
Ecostrategic agriculture
• Fossil fuels are not with us for all the time in future
• We need to halt the expansion of ecologically hostile agriculture
• Ecologically sustainable livelihoods need to be promoted
• We just need to scrutinize the production methods and process for GM foods in order
to ensure public ownership
Ecostrategic human empathy
• Hear the call of the birds losing their spaces across the nations in the river basins of
Yamuna, Amazon, Mississippi , Hwang Ho etc
• Madness for creating ecologically hostile cities is globally agreed planeticide
• Accelerating pace for creating reasons for man made destruction doomsday!!! Yes
Ecostrategic habitats
• Non-renewable energy intensive habitats are not sustainable repeat this 40 times
• Halt acquistion of farmer lands
• Halt acquistion of the forest lands with people in ecologically sustainable habitats
• Halt destruction of spaces for wild birds and protect carbon sinks
Ecostrategic Kyoto Protocol
• Beat the policy of carbon credits through simultaneous lifestyle change globally
• Beat the policy of differentiated responsibly accepted in UN MDG by 2010
• We must get his incorporated in Copenhagen discussions in 2009
• Simultaneous reduction in GHG emissions
• Bear the rural and urban divide for supporting the ecologically sustainable villages
Democracy of faithful
• Support creation of the democracy of the faithful for minimising emission of green
house gases
• For ending the loss of ecologically sustainable habitats, livelihoods and energy
• For ending the rule of atheistic post-modernism in leisure and culture
Ecostrategic education
• Supports elimination of excess and exhibitionism
• Creates supportive climate of opinion for emission of green house gases
• Curriculum renewal for meeting the challenges of the 40th century
• Choose either ecologically sustainable villages or ecologically hostile doomsday
cities
Abandon skyscrapers
• Lets us remember the advertisement of Shell and the impending energy crisis
• UN needs to follow through shifting the headquarters to horizontally spaced out
location
• Save the villages and save agriculture
• Support Mamta Banerjee in her struggle to get back the land for the farmers in Singur
and Nandigram

5. Piety the best attire
• The verse in the holy Qur’an establishes ‘piety’ to be the best dress
• 6 billion pious men and women will save Earth for children of 40th century
• All the dresses are for decoration but piety is the best.
• Piety is determined by the extent to which we follow the commands and fear
Allah/God/…
Ecostrategic politics
• Prevent destruction of the mines based resources
• Assess the political visions considering the interests of children of 40th century
• Rajiv Gandhi had this vision while advocating the concept of world citizenship in the
Congress manifesto of 1989
• All political party meet for Ecostrategic planning
Global warming
• Requires Ecostrategic solutions
• It is man made and we need to halt this
• Mitigation not adaptation
• Abandon energy intensive skyscrapers
• Global responses simultaneous responses
• Monotheistic governance for addressing global governance
Ecostrategic Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis and denotified tribes
• Do not need to crave for ecologically hostile skyscrapers laden cities
• They need to work for creating equitable modes of ecologically sustainable
coexistence in villages and rural areas
• Kill the aggression with faith based instruments, moral suasion and promotion of
ecologically sustainable lifestyles
Transforming cities
• Sustainable cities preparing for children in 40th century
• Transforming cities for making it sustainable rather destroying the villages for
making cities live
• Carbon neutral cities with ecologically sustainable transport now!!
• Bring back horse driven carts and bullock carts
Ecostrategic Gender policy
• Gender justice in meeting the ecological challenges ..women need to contribute in
meeting the challenges
• Women thinkers need to assess policies for addressing the needs of children of 40th
century
• Women’s movement need to factor in the needs of the children of 40th century
Ecostrategic/ messengers/ saviours
• We need to recall what they said
• Noah, Moses, Jesus, Mohammad and all
• Rational atheists need to address the call for reduction in the emission of GHGs
• Faith based responses marshalled by believers need to be matched by the atheists
through carbon neutral engagements
Ecostrategic Habitats
• Based on the renewable resources
• Poverty indicators need to be revised with reference to access to ecologically
sustainable basic needs
• Skyscraper laden urban habitats guzzling fossil fuels and energy are just not
sustainable
• Shell should be calling for halting the expansion of ecologically hostile spaces rather
than seeking supplies of energy for unlimited demand of energy of the ecologically
hostile cities
Ecostrategic struggles for ecological safety and dignity
• Electing and nominating pious leaders

6. • Creating political consensus within and across the nations for electing ecologically
literate and pious leaders for protecting the rights of children in 40th century
• Generation of political discourse and educating the masses for ecologically safe
politics
Ecostrategic food security
• Food earned through rights means
• Food earned through ecologically sustainable means except for meeting the survival
needs
• Boycotting intoxicating drinks and drugs and its trade-WTO to ensure
• Sustained dialogue to ensure prevention of poppy cultivation
Ecostrategic spirituality
• Carbon neutral neighbourhood engagements for spiritual health
• Remembrance of God/Allah for comforting the soul
• Repentance for sins and practice of prayer 5 times a day
• Monotheistic spirituality for all
Ecostrategic neighbourhoods
• Support in pious behaviour
• Prevent exhibitionist consumption
• Promoting supportive neighbourhoods
• Supporting carbon neutral spiritual and pious neighbourhoods
• Neighbourhood eco-watch groups and resident welfare associations for sustainable
and inclusive city
Ecostrategic decision making
• Consultation for decisions affecting the farmers and their lands
• Halting acquisition of lands- food security is more important than cheap cars for
ecologically hostile cities
• No land acquisition of the villagers
• Save the land of farmers in Singur, Nandigram in West Bengal and elsewhere
Getting straight with ecologically safe lifestyles
• We need to get personal for changing our lifestyles
• Eliminate emission of GHGs through avoiding fossil fuel based services and utilities
• Getting media partnerships for communicating urgent change in the lifestyles
Accelerating reduction of ecologically hostile private transport
• Boycott nano cars and other cars for using and demanding better public transport
• Boycott usurious banking creating money out of thin air in the books
• Defend footpaths for securing rights of the pedestrians
• ensure whether the buyers have parking space before / garage facility before sale of
cars
Monotheistic framework of accelerating application of Ecostrategic policies
• United national and global response requires a one governance protocol based on
common shared framework for action minimising uncertainties
• Atheistic Marxist and polytheistic social order can not be globalised
• Monotheistic commons are part of inter-faith commons
Global unity for eco-safety
• Climate change requires unity of people and nations
• It is critical to eliminate the divisive atheistic and polytheistic contents from the
discourse and practice for following on the interfaith monotheistic commons
• Need for unity is critical as it was never before in the history of human civilisation
Global unity for eco-safety
• Monotheistic criterion for the success of men and women and civilisation
• Civilisations/governance supportive of usury, adultery and homosexuality has been
destroyed
• Ecologically hostile consumption also happens to be dominated by leisure
engagements that are in violation of the commands of Allah/God/…./
Ecostrategic demolition of energy intensive habitats rather than slums

7. • Ecologically hostile energy intensive skyscraper based urban habitats malls will be
rendered inhabitable very soon
• DDA has been seeking slum free Delhi that is good for the time being
• but there is no future for petro-modern habitats
• save the land of farmers in and around Delhi
Unseen ecologically hostile forces
• Seeking the path of monotheistic peace best for Ecostrategic planning and
development
• Mayan calendar predicted the destruction in the year 2012 December
• Monotheistic narration remind us of the Day of Judgement/ pralay
• The challenge therefore is for best preparedness for eternal and temporal wellbeing
Ecostrategic development
• Halt the loot of rural habitats for ecologically hostile industries and developers
• Stop usurious bank creating money out of thin year fuelling the ‘development’ boom
• 40th century benchmark for decisions
• UN meet for creating agenda for 40th century
Ecostrategic development planning
• Planning for the children of 40th century
• Better to be sooner than never
• Distributive justice for renewable resource based livelihoods
• Do not seek inclusion in ecologically hostile urban habitats
• National/ International meet of the sustainable villagers and farmers
Ecologically sustainable China
• China and India need to integrate Ecostrategic principles quickly
• They need to renegotiate their role in tacking global warming
• Principle of differentiated responsibility for reducing green house gas emissions
would not work
• Simultaneous reduction is needed
Thanks
• For more introspection 5 times a day
• For working for the rights of the children of 40th century
• For getting ready for thinking and acting patiently, persistently, humbly, consistently,
effectively and efficiently
• With prayers for temporal and eternal wellbeing with greetings of peace to all
Droughts and desertification as impact of climate change as a stimulus for development of
Ecostrategic Thinking
Droughts have been a cause of concern in all part of the world for centuries. There are
references for the same in the holy texts such as the holy Torah, the Bible and the holy
Qur’an. Yusuf/Joseph, the youngest son of Yaqoob/Jacob, the messenger of Allah/God has
recorded to have advised the king of Egypt for preparing for the drought years on the basis of
a dream that the King saw and mentioned to former prisoner living with Joseph (peace be
upon him). King acted upon the interpretation of his dream provided by Joseph (peace be
upon him) and prepared for 7 years of drought. Similarly, desertification has been a process
that has been recorded as one of the process that has been on in various parts of world.
Droughts are marked by the absence of rain or inadequate rain that is responsible for loss of
crops or inadequate crop yield causing a serious concern for food. Desertification is linked
with loss of agricultural habitats. The loss of agricultural lands, forest cover is an outcome of
globalisation of industrial production processes based on non-renewable resources based
resources. Climate change is an outcome of the globalisation of non-renewable resource based
urban habitats. Drought is, among other factors, responsible for soil degradation. It has been
also established that desertification increases with the increase in emission of the green house
gases. There is thus a relation of cause and effect between climatic change and desertification.

8. The extract of a study for Sahel in Africa shows the severity of the problem and how it was
predicted seven years ago.
The focus of this paper on Integration of Ecostrategic Thinking on therefore is on the
following:
1. Assessment of responses to climate change are being made,
2. assessments of the instruments for mitigating the impacts of climates,
3. hurdles faced in the implementation of the Kyoto protocol emission targets
4. Constraints in the development strategy and proposal for ecologically sustainable
development strategy
5. Call for adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework
for ecologically sustainability and socially equity
6. Innovative faith based strategies as part of Ecostrategic Thinking
7. Way forward
Change in the climate with rise in temperature of earth, change in rainfall patterns is
caused due to emission of green house gases that raise the temperature of earth as the
amount of green house gases generated is much more than the capacity of the green cover
for absorbing. Impacts of the climate change are being felt everywhere beyond the
national boundaries. There are several recorded evidences that has caused nations to take
on the challenge of global warming .UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change
has been meeting and deliberating on the issue. There are several national responses and
international agreements. Recently China and U.S. has expressed agreement to work on
climate change. Statement of the recently Chinese permier for working with India and
BRIC nations for developing a common plank on the one hand shows reluctance to
emission targets ,on the other hand there is a desire to seek equity with the so called
developed nations in terms GDP ,consumption patterns and habitats diversities etc that
are considered sign of development. Speaking on occasion of APEC summit in Sydney,
Australia Mr. Hu Jintao had maintained that “the United Nations Framework convention
should remain the main channel for the international efforts” to address climate change”1
.
1
The Hindu, September 7, 2007
About 80% of the rural Sahelian population depends on forest resources to meet their basic social
needs, especially during famine and drought (CGIAR, 2006). Climatic scenarios forecast an increase in
temperature and a fall in precipitations in the future of the region (MECV‚ 2006) which will increase
recurrent drought and pressure on forest resources‚ causing soil degradation. Forest resources
contribute in the fight against poverty in the Sahelian countries. Scientists are very concerned and many
debates are being held on drought and desertification in the Sahel. However, the recurrent drought
lately is bound to change in climate although many believed that it is a natural process. The forest
resources faces both human and climate pressures thus causing them to be vulnerable. This
vulnerability is bound to increase in future due to recurrent droughts (MECV, 2006), exacerbating the
poverty of the rural Sahelian majority whose lives depend on natural resources. This loss of soil
productivity leads majority of the rural population that depends mainly on agriculture to put pressure on
forest resources in order to improve their economic situation. It is that sight of the importance of the
threat which the desertification constitutes that the general meeting of the United Nations declares year
2006 as international year desert and desertification (Granich‚ 2006)…
Extract from the article of Yacouba Noël COULIBALY, Research Assistant, Center for International Forestry
Research, Tropical Forest and Climate Change Adaptation Project, 06 BP 9478 Ouagadougou 06, Burkina Faso

9. The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), which emphasised the far-reaching consequences that continued global warming
would have across the world, has given fresh impetus to finding solution to the problem.
The summit meeting of the Group of Eight industrialised countries (G8) held in Germany
in the month of June 2007 agreed to launch new initiatives for collective action by both
rich nations and fast-growing developing countries to combat climate change. In its
Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC, the international body that has the task of weighing
scientific evidence on climate change, pointed to definitive evidence that global
atmospheric concentration of key greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide had
“increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750”. These gases were
trapping the Earth’s heat that would otherwise have radiated out into space. If the build-
up of greenhouse gases and the resultant warming of the planet were allowed to continue
unchecked, the humanity collectively will have to face several consequences. Droughts
and desertification are among the impacts of climate change. The position paper
submitted as an input for WSSD processes submitted in 2007 for WSSD Youth Caucus
focused on the challenges and offers solutions for halting the impacts of climate change
through adoption of measures including the faith based personal responses for
transformation of ecologically hostile consumption, production and leisure use patterns.
Progress so far
Lots of seminars and conferences have been organized for addressing the global challenge
of mitigating the climate challenge. There are Kyoto protocol emission targets for which
national strategies have been devised. Kyoto Protocol formally known as UN Framework
Conventions on Climate Change has not been ratified by some of the important nations.
U.S. and Australia are not ratifying the protocol as they have perceptions of competitive
disadvantage. There are agreements for reducing the emissions by the year 2020 and
2050. There exists a vibrant mobilization of civil society and mobilization of youth
groups. Several groups are working for the policy advocacy for implementing the binding
targets for the emission of green house gases. There also exists a dynamic policy
advocacy for R&D in renewable energy so that there is plenty of renewable resource
based energy for replacing the non-renewable energy. Green parties existing in more than
88 countries are calling for replacement for greenhouse generating fossil fuel based
energy sources with renewable energy.
UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been awarded Nobel Prize along
with Robert Al Gore for working on the climate change. The Norwegian Nobel
Committee cited the recipients “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater
knowledge about man made climate change and to lay foundations for the measures that
are needed to counteract such a change”2
. Mr .Al Gore responded to the citation saying
“we face a truly planetary emergency: the climate change is not a political issue, it is a
moral and spiritual challenge to all humanity”3
. Mr.R.K. Pachaury sharing the prize with
Robert Al Gore as Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on climate change responded
that the Nobel Peace prize would add sense of urgency to the fight against global
warming. IPCC, set up in 1988, is tasked with giving policymakers a summary of the
latest knowledge about climate change. Gavin Edwards head of Climate and Energy
Campaign, Greenpeace International talking about what the governments across the world
can do to mitigate the problem pointed out the need to reconsider terms of protocol that
acknowledges the differentiated responsibility for the various nations responding to the
climate change. He points out the need for the developing countries to do all the needful
and not repeat the mistakes of the developed countries - “nongovernmental organisations
have really focused on the industrialized nations that have to do lion’s share of tackling
2
The Hindu October 13, 2007
3
Ibid

10. the climate change-that’s clear. But what is also clear is that developing countries like
India and China constantly continue developing with the business as usual old style
development approach. They could be repeating the same mistakes the West has made in
the last few decades .And, if India, China and other countries continue to make those
mistakes, then regardless of what the West is doing to tackle the climate change it will be
impossible”4
.
The instruments advocated for mitigating the climate change
Energy efficient technologies are being developed for minimizing the consumption of the
energy. CFL lamps are being promoted as part of energy efficient utilities and equipments
for contributing in the reduction of green house gas emissions. There also goals for
replacement of non-renewable energy throng renewable energy .Green party in Germany
seek full scale replacement of non-renewable energy by renewable energy by the year
2020. There are treaties that have been signed though they are not religiously followed.
More funding is being sought for research for globalizing renewable energy based
services and utilities. Binding targets on emission reduction is not there as is evident from
the aspirational recommendation of the APEC summit concluded recently in Sydney as
part of the processes for the UN framework convention on climate change to be held in
Bali in the month of December 2007. There are plans of Action devoid of binding policies
and target for the emission of green house gases.
If the build-up of greenhouse gases and the resultant warming of the planet was allowed
to continue unchecked, we will collectively have consequences in terms of the loss of the
ecologically sustainable livelihoods, habitats, crop failures, inequitable distribution of the
ecologically safe habitats across the world. It is well-known that global economic boom
is accelerating green house gas emissions with the ever expanding non-renewable energy
based urban habitats, consumption, production and transport patterns.
Problems in the strategies
There are strategies that have been identified with global recognition of the need to
reduce green house emissions. Even so, they get defeated as goals are set with
contradicting outcomes and visions .For example, GDP calculation does not consider the
impact on environment and ecological costs and thus are not therefore factors in the
calculation of Gross Domestic Product. Enormous costs on environments are ignored
following the conviction that all the resources are for the use and their non-utilisation is
an indicator of low technological development. An ecologically sustainable habitat is not
considered valuable with ecologically sustainable livelihoods. Quarterly reporting on the
increase in the GDP does not factor the increase in green house gas emissions. 7th
Generation Initiative in Canada with wellbeing measurement Act in an initiative for
factoring the ecological costs and cost of women's work at home
www.sustainwellbeing.net . They believe that calculation of gross domestic product must
include the cost on the environment that our actions in the present have
www.sustainwellbeing.net. Mike Nickerson and Joe Jordon have been campaigning for
years.
Political parties continue to be inspired by short term visions and it is not quite their fault.
SIMPOL is working with the voters globally for influencing the simultaneous adoption of
policies. There is need to ensure more and more simultaneous actions globally for
peaceful actions, decisions, choices that will contribute in collective ecological safety.
Political parties need to be educated for supporting the policies that ensure protection of
ecologically sustainable livelihoods and habitats. Labour League Foundation ,Sufi Trust
4
The Hindu, October 16, 2007

11. and CEASIG as part of National Forum of Forest Workers and Forest People supporting
the rights of land in their traditional habitats through deleting the impact of colonial
legislations that deprived them their rights to homestead and agriculture lands. Green
parties are concerned about the ecologically safe issues but their voters are few .Most of
the political parties are concerned with issues that are more appealing to the elite and the
middle class in the immediate present.
Another major hurdle experienced in the way of getting global responses for mitigating
the climate change is continued marketing of fossil fuel intensive consumption patterns,
urban habitats designs, development paradigm, competitive nationalisms for seeking the
markers of fossil fuel intensive lifestyles, devaluation of the ecologically sustainable
agriculture consumption patterns. There exists continued political support for cultural
products and processes that are inimical to national and global ecological safety. While
there are measures for ecological impact/ environment impact assessments but then there
markedly exists absence of concerns for addressing the root causes of ecological and man
made disasters. Marginalisation of the faith based youth groups by the atheistic
intelligentsia continues to be problem that needs to be addressed .They need to be brought
on board .
Ecologically safe national strategy/ development paradigm
Considering the above, it is proposed that an ecologically safe national strategy/
development paradigm contains the following features:
1. Marketing of ecologically safe consumption ,production, leisure use patterns
2. Discouraging ecologically hostile consumption and production patterns
3. Promotion of neighbourhood trade and education and discouraging ecologically
hostile trade and education
4. Ecologically sustainable agriculture
5. Promotion of ecologically sustainable transport Systems
6. Faith based measures for transformation of leisure use pattern
7. Promotion and protection of ecologically sustainable habitats
8. ecologically safe interest free and debt free finance system
9. Ecologically safe models of success

12. Towards a solution
Reduction in the emission of green house gases through promoting measures and decision
patterns that moderate the consumption of services and utilities based on the consumption
of green house emitting fossil fuels is critical that all concerned with safeguarding the
humanity from the negative impacts of climate change, minimising the incidence of
drought and halting the expansion of deserts and preventing the loss of ecologically
sustainable habitats and livelihoods. Considering the emergencies, it is argued that
adoption of faith based measures for transforming leisure use patterns is considered on
priority. Following diagram demonstrates the impact and relations that adoption of prayer
and meditation 5 times a day on the consumption patterns.
Men and women following the commands for prayer and meditation 5 times a day are
not likely to indulge in consumption of lots of evening post work engagements that
require long distance travels as this would interfere in observance of the command for
prayer /salah /meditation /yoga at the appointed hours. It can be easily seen that adoption
of this command will ensure transformation of lots of consumption of fossil fuel intensive
leisure such as going to bar and dancing halls. This can be adopted along with several
other personal and community responses for reducing the emission of green houses. Faith
based responses appear to be more effective and they need to be promoted as for this
there is no need to make additional efforts. Association of ‘conservatism’ appears to be
Discouraging
exhibitionist
consumption
patterns
Promotion of
neighbourhood
trade and
education
Debt free, interest
free ecologically
safe finance
system
Ecologically
sustainable
agriculture
Ecologically safe
models of success
Promotion of
ecologically
sustainable
transport
Systems
Faith based
measures for
transformation of
leisure use pattern
Promotion of
ecologically
sustainable
habitats
Marketing of
ecologically safe
consumption
production
Ecologically
safe strategy/
development
paradigm

13. more one of the response that some men and women may have for communication of
faith based measures. But then it is important to see the importance of the adoption of
faith based measure for ecological efficacy, safety, suitability, desirability and validity.
Faith based responses are common and they just need to be promoted for their
contribution in the ecological wellbeing at the personal, community, social, national and
global levels. There is an urgent need for the same.
Personal faith based responses
Prayer 5/3+1 times a day for transforming leisure use pattern recognising that leisure use
patterns are one of the key social engagements that consume most of the fossil fuel based
services and utilities .Command for prayer is common across the religious texts though it
appears most prominently practiced by men and women following the communications of
Muhammad, believed to be the last messenger by Muslims (men and women submitting
to the will of God/Allah/../.
How adoption of prayer transform the consumption patterns and ecologically hostile
travel intensive leisure use patterns
Men and women practicing prayer (salah in Arabic) do not visit dancing halls and bars as
they are more concerned about praying in time. Prayer in the morning, afternoon, after
sunset and then prayer after dinner in the homes/ mosques/ churches/synagogue/ prayer
and meditation halls/work place makes them bound to focus on the necessary work only.
Prayer and remembrance for them is a mean of relaxation, stress busting, socialization,
and communion and so on. S/he concentrates on the essential matters in the
neighbourhood and cares for them as commanded through the messengers. Secondly, they
Reduction in the
consumption of fossil
fuel based services and
utilities through
transformation of
leisure use pattern
Prayer 5/3+1 times a
day for transformation
of exhibitionist
consumption and
leisure use patterns
Ecological safety with
ecologically
sustainable habitats
and livelihoods
globally
Reduction in the
emission of green
house gases

14. abstain from exhibitionist consumption following the command of God/ Allah for not
transgressing the bounds/limits set by God/Allah. For dressing they believe that the best
dress is that of piety determined by the extent to which they follow the commands of
God/ Allah. They abstain from adultery following the commands against the same as they
believe in upholding the best standards of piety. They seek forgiveness from God/Allah
for the sinful deeds executed intentionally or unintentionally. Thus adoption of prayer 5
times a day works as a guard for all the behaviours that have been prohibited in the holy
books across the religions.
They donate out of the sustenance for poor following the commands for donation/zakat,
khairat, fitra and sadaqah/daan.. They do not waste and thus observe the best of the
ideals communicated through the slogan of ‘waste not, want not’. They indulge in
ecologically safe consumption and believe in moderation in all matters. The middle path
communicated through the commands of God/Allah is best ensured through the adoption
of compulsory prayers 5 times a day. Youth, Men and men following the commands in
Shiv Sankalp Taru for remembrance of Ishwar are likely to have the similar best
behaviour patterns that are ecologically safe. Their average ecological footprints are
likely to be very low. This needs to be established with communication of more
ecological audits/ water audits/green audits/ energy audits/ paper audits/ food intake
audits- a series of audits that youth, men and women following the command of
God/Allah perform or they are supposed to perform. They ensure more and more pious
behaviour, consumption and production patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit, Inclusion
and Governance along with many organisations call for generation of more pious
responses as they are directly linked to reduction in the emission of green house gases .
Inter faith commons
The inter faith commons need to be communicated and disseminated for not only global
integration but also for addressing the critical ecological challenge that we as part of
humanity face . Global warming is no longer a concern of a particular nations but it is an
issue that we all as part of humanity face. Inter faith commons bring to the fore the
understanding that we have common monotheistic content and messengers who upheld
the best standards of justice, communication, and struggle in their life time and fought
men and women after utilizing the best means of persuasion. Shiv Sankalp Taru has a
very interesting verse that needs to be brought in light for men and women who have
special affinity for the Sanskrit textual tradition. The timings are very much common to
the timing followed by the Muslims. It is a command that needs to be followed by all.
Muslim youths, men and women already follow that following the communication of
God/BRAHMM communicated through the last messenger while believing that
commands were communicated through all the messengers earlier in various languages
and lands. The commands followed by Muslims are the commands that were
communicated through the earlier messengers were sent to all the lands to people who
spoke various languages following the related verse in the holy Qur’an. Commands in
Shiv Sankalp Taru “Ishwar smarate panch awasare” calls for remembrance of Ishwar
who was neither born nor gave on five occasions in a day, every day-all the 365/366 days
of the year.
Command for establishing prayer at the appointed hours exists in the Holy Qur’an.
According to one count there are command for establishing salah and give zakat more
that 54 times in the holy Qur’an. There are commands in Bible and Torah. Buddhist
monotheistic tradition calls for fighting the ‘mara’ in the Dhammapada and the atheistic
understanding calls for adoption of middle path in all the matters. Practice of meditation
leads to transformation of consumption patterns. Gurus in the Sikhism and Jain traditions
are examples of austere life filled with prayer and penance. Guru Nanak was a
practitioner of prayer and remembrance and he is revered for that and followed by

15. millions of Sikhs around the world. For Sikhs, it is not impossible to follow the best
practices of Guru Nanak who established himself as a role model for millions of Sikhs
around the world. Following table shows the interfaith commons that can be adopted by
all. This is being proposed considering the absence of coherent strategy in the atheistic
post-modern discourse and contingencies of the global emergencies that must be
addressed.
Some key
ecologically
sensitive
commands
Isla
m
Christianit
y
Brahmanis
m
Sikhis
m
Judais
m
Buddhis
m
Jainis
m
Prevention of
usury
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Prohibition of
adultery and
homosexualit
y
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Propagation
of austerity
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Protection of
the institution
of family
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for
donating for
the poor
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
Command for
prayer
√ √ √ √ √ √ √
How an ecologically sustainable / contended reverent economy is built up with happiness
for all
Ecological economists are currently debating issues with the Washington consensus
economist and fighting the TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome .Noam Chomsky
believes in the alternative economic order and so do youths of the world who through
their calls are wanting to see the change and taking up non-violent advocacy and
communication for the needful change . He also believes in the alternative political and
cultural order .Binary economists are calling for abolition of interest charged on the loans
as they believe creation of money from thin air in the books of the bankers is responsible
for lots of ecologically hostile and socially inequitable practices in consumption,
production and distribution and leisure use patterns www.binaryeconomics.org .
Elimination of usury, fiat money propelling the ecologically hostile growth of urban
habitats is being pointed out to be a critical factor in building a socially inclusive and
ecologically safe economy. Similarly, debt free credit /interest free loans are being
promoted for zero debt distressed suicides and bankruptcies.
Another major feature of contented and ecological sustainable economy is its capacity
and intent for the protection of ecologically sustainable habitats with renewable resource
based life support systems. It is simply impossible to envisage sustainability of non-
renewable based transport systems in perpetuity. Search for nuclear energy and intense
research activity in the renewable resource based energy is a proof for this. It needs to be

16. Protection of
Renewable
resource based
livelihoods
Freedom from
worried of
energy crisis
Distributive
justice for
renewable
resource based
livelihoods
Ecologically
sustainable
leisure use
patterns
Rights to
renewable
resource based
habitats
Debt free
money
/interest free
loans with
public money
Ecologically
Sustainable/
Contended
reverent
economy
noted that while nuclear energy in the short run appears to be carbon neutral, but in the
long run, this is also not sustainable as there are limited resources for running the
reactors. It is clear that resources such as uranium and thorium are not for all the time in
the future. Therefore, the only solution is to decelerate and regulate the consumption of
non-renewable resource based services and utilities through instituting an ecologically
sustainable economy with the following features:
1. Debt free money and interest free loans with public control on the creation of money
2. Rights to renewable resource based habitats
3. Ecologically sustainable leisure use patterns
4. Distributive justice for renewable resource based livelihoods
5. Freedom from worried of energy crisis
6. Protection of Renewable resource based livelihoods
Following Diagram shows the essential constituents of an ecologically sustainable and
socially inclusive economy:
Freedom from worries of energy crisis affecting energy intensive transportation systems
and habitats is an essential constituent of an ecologically sustainable and socially

17. equitable economy .At present most of the planners are concerned with the increasing
energy requirements and for this some countries are ready to sacrifice their ideals and
foundations of foreign policy. Left parties in India along with other parties have been
vociferously opposing the loss of independence in the foreign policy of India. It is
important to ensure sustainability for the renewable resource based life support systems
and for this it is important to halt the loss of ecologically sustainable habitats and
agricultural production methodologies. It is not possible to ensure sustainability for
habitat designs that are based on unsustainable energy sources. Therefore, it is not
possible to ensure sustainability for skyscraper laden urban habitats. Urban areas with
energy intensive shopping malls need to be brought within ecologically sustainable limits.
For this to happen, it is important to support adoption of ecologically safe and socially
inclusive governance framework.
Youths and academia as drivers of change processes and communication for transition to
ecologically safe life support systems locally and globally
Creating debt free money and ensuring interest free loans in not quite easy as that requires
change of hearts and minds of men and women governing the various institutions who
find the proposals difficult. Success of the proposals for ecologically sustainable and
socially equitable economy and polity requires multiplication of men and women who
uphold the criterion of piety. It is important that the pious men and women across the
world prohibiting peacefully what is wrong and prescribing what is right take charge of
the governance and ensure that debt free money is created, faith based measures are
adopted for mitigating the impacts of climate change. It is important to understand the
need to prepare for life after death as that would impel men and women to adopt faith
based measures more and more. Now, the signs of ecological distress are too compelling
to avoid collective and personal actions for both mitigating and halting the impacts of
climate change. Signs of ecological distress affecting the lives of billions call for taking
corrective action locally and globally. Youths and corporations who are market for non-
renewable energy intensive services and utilities need to be in charge. Atheistic
postmodernist laissez faire regimen of cultural, political and moral governance needs to
be critically reviewed as they damage the survival interests of the billions in here and now
and that of future generations.
Hurdles in the way/ constraints
There are hurdles in the way for such a massive change taking place simultaneously and
globally and most pernicious among the faith based notions are that of neo-liberal
atheistic ideology where market and profit devoid of the concerns of eternal interests of
mankind are permitted to have full freedom. It is dominance of atheistic neo-liberal
ideology that prevents men and women from adopting the faith based pious measures for
addressing the global and local challenges. Media channels such as MTV with adoring
participation of youths indoctrinated in the atheistic visions of good life are busy in
creating models of copy cat consumption and leisure use patterns globally with local
vernacular channels following in line. Starting with English music content in 90’s now
MTV has more of Hindi songs and dance forms with direct message for youths for
copying the ecologically leisure use pattern including partying ,dancing and drinking of
intoxicating drinks.
The second hurdle is the lack on coherent national and international policy with respect to
addressing the climate change. While Kyoto protocol emission target call for reduction in
the emission of green house gases, national development strategies continue to be
inspired by the perception of competitive disadvantage. It is dangerous to have such
incoherence for long time as the assessments of climate scientists are too compelling.
Speaking on the occasion of a meeting to the launch the full report of the

18. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the impacts of global warming, Professor
Martin Parry, a climate scientist with MET office in UK and co-chairman of the working
group for the report said, “We are all used to talking about the impact of these changes
coming in the lifetime of our children and grand children. Now we know that it is us.” He
added that politicians had wasted a decade in focussing on ways to cut emissions, and had
woken up recently to the need to adapt. He felt that “mitigation has got all the attention,
but we cannot mitigate out of this problem. We have now a choice between a damaged
world and a severely damaged world”. (The Hindu 20 September 2007)
The hurdle can be seen through assessing the levels of convergence for the various
agencies and their functioning. While there are calls for higher rates of growth, they are
not assessed in the light of the demands of ecological sustainability. Even the promotion
of indexes such as “sustainability index” is not getting the required attention and it has
been left to the discretion of the nations. There are evidences of lack of interagency
cooperation and United National Development Programme (UNDP) appears to be
working against the mandate of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Environment assessments /ministries are slighted for benefiting ecologically hostile
proposals/ policies. More often than not considerations of ecological sustainability are
ignored for sanctioning ecologically hostile projects. This is evident from the sanction of
Special Economic Zones despite the violent and non-violent resistance of farmers in India
as they did not want to give up on their only source of ecologically sustainable
livelihoods through farming. Committee for Campaign on National Himalayan Policy for
the ecologically fragile Himalayan region in India has been calling for redefinition of
development policy.5
Therefore there is a need to institute a governance framework that is both ecologically
safe and socially inclusive with reference to poor, old, children and women, ethnic and
religious groups residing both in rural and urban habitats.
Labour League Foundation along with several youth led organisations considers the need
for establishing ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance with the following
features:
1. A governance that is cognizant of the needs of poor, rights of farmers and villages to
ecologically sustainable livelihoods and habitats
2. Governance that eliminates fictitious inflationary money and usurious loans created
from thin air and responsible for expansion of ecologically hostile habitats
3. Governance that promotes pious and ecologically safe consumption and production
pattern
4. A government that plans for ecologically safe disaster free future for all
5. Governance that ensure ecologically safe distribution of natural resources
6. Governance that works for the interests of all
7. Governance that ensures policy making for the rights of children, future generations
and poor
.
Diagram-4
Represents the key features of ecologically safe and socially inclusive education and
governance
5
Peoples Declaration 2007, Rashtriya Haimalyan Niti Abhiyan Samiti,
Chanakyapuri,Ghugharnala,Palampur, District-Kangra,Himachal Pradesh www.navrachna.org
Ensures the best
interests for
all /win- win for
all
Ensures
ecologically safe
distribution of
natural resources
Recognises the
rights of poor,
farmers &
villagers to
ecologically
sustainable
livelihoods and
habitats
Eliminates
fictitious
inflationary
money
responsible for
expansion of
ecologically
hostile habitats
Promotes
pious and
ecologically
safe
consumption
and
production
pattern
Plans for
ecologically
safe and
disaster free
future for all
Ensures policy
making for the
rights of
children,
future
generations
and poor
Ecologically
sustainable and
socially
inclusive
Education

19. Strategies
1. Multiplication of carbon neutral neighbourhood discussions (CNNDs) across the
cities and villages and disciplines
These discussions initiated by youth and community elders in the neighbourhood where
they gather for collective prayer, discussions and other social engagements. The
recommendations of the discussions and simultaneous action compiled at various levels
will be presented in the form of a memorandum to the local and world leader gathered in
various summits and events accelerating the generation of ecologically safe survival and
development policies and multiplication of ecologically safe survival policies. Local
impacts will be generated through transformation of the leisure use pattern, consumption
pattern, production systems ensuring minimisation of emission of green house gases and
galvanising mass communication strategies for reduction in the personal contribution to
the green house gases. The discussions on the urgency of reducing green house gases lead
to the transformation of personal level consumption patterns. Centre for Ecological Audit,
Social Inclusion and Governance (CEASIG), a Delhi based organisation believes that
personal responses are critical for transformation of the consumption patterns.
Unsustainable consumption patterns can be halted with the personal responses. Personal
responses are always part of the global responses. Carbon neutral neighbourhood
discussions (CNNDs) will multiply ecologically safe responses across the urban and rural
areas.
2. Multiplication of ecologically safe responses through promotion of green journalism,
generation of analytic and advisory output across the universities
Production of analytical and advisory outputs through journalists is critical and they are
one of the major stakeholders in shaping the opinions, consumption patterns. Journalists
writing on lifestyle can substantially influence the consumption pattern of people in the
urban areas. They can help in shaping the tastes and defining the choices. Journalists are
important is generating democratic consensus for halting unsustainable consumption
patterns. In our times, journalists play a very critical and sometimes they are responsible
for defining the social, cultural and political trends. Youth organisations call for securing
the future of villages, children and future generations with ecologically sustainable
habitats, consumption patterns while ensuring inter-species justice.
3. Catalysing green academics and politics
Labour league Foundation and Centre for Ecological Audit, Social Inclusion and
Governance along with many organisations globally will be supporting the process for
open and transparent politics for instilling the importance of ecologically safe green
ideals. Youth organisations will be organising meetings with the representatives of the
various media organisations and political parties and seek inclusion of ecological
considerations in editorial policies and election manifestoes. Media organisations need to
be visionary organisations and help in the preparation for an emerging future bereft of
petro-modern6
consumption, transport, habitat and production systems.
4. Transformation of leisure use patterns
Youth organisations and youth wish to realise the millennium development goals for
eliminating the unsustainable consumption patterns and wish to do so through suggesting
transformation of the leisure use pattern. Suggestions for adoption of faith based
6
The phrase of Petro-modern is a coinage of Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam for describing the whole
set of services and utilities that are based on fossil fuels.

20. measures that are common across the religious texts need to be taken seriously as part of
global cultural commons. As indicated through the diagrammatic representation of the
impact of adoption of faith based measures, youths call for generating interfaith
consensus for acting simultaneously for transforming the leisure use patterns.
5. Calculation of ecological footprints, eliminating ecological rucksacks, returning to the
ecologically sustainable habitats of the past for securing the ecological safe future of
children and future generations
Youth call for dissemination of the practice of measuring ecological footprints for getting
the desired actions for reducing the number of decisions involving emission of green
house gases. Similarly, awareness on the loss of rocks due to excessive mining is critical
for eliminating the amount of ecological losses. It is critical to value the conventional
housing designs that use mud, grass, bamboo and wood. The definition of poverty
considering the possession of adobe dwellings as a sign of poverty needs to be revised.
6. Ecological Audit of the consumption processes and patterns
The ecological audit is a concept proposed by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam, the
chairman of Labour League Foundation http://muhammad_mukhtar_alam.tigblog.org
.This needs to be used along with the calculation of ecological footprints, environment
audit/ green audit for assessing the impact of various decision and consumption patterns.
Globalisation of the ecological audit at all levels is needed for supporting ecologically
sustainable consumption patterns. This is important for realising the millennium
development goals for environment sustainability by the year 2015. It is proposed that
reports on sustainability index are incorporated in the formulation of the ecologically safe
development policy.
7. Ecological Audit of the production systems / patterns
Production processes need to be assessed for ecological sustainability. There are
ecologically sustainable and unsustainable production processes. The workshops with
corporations interested in realising the millennium development goals will be conducted
for getting in the changes in production processes. Youths believe based on the
predictions on the oil reserves that Petro-modern production systems do not have a long
future. Reducing energy demand for ecologically unsustainable production, consumption
patterns is critical for halting the expansion of deserts and regularisation of rainfalls.
8. Ecological Audit of the transport systems / patterns
Renewable resource based transport systems are sustainable and non-renewable resource
based transport systems are not sustainable. Ecological Audit of the transport systems
needs to be encouraged for all organisations and ministries dealing with transport.
Minimising / Eliminating travel is critical for ecologically sustainable habitats. We need
to prepare for the end of petro-modern age.
9. Ecological Audit of the leisure use patterns-
There are leisure use patterns that do not use green house gas producing fossil fuels and
there are leisure use patterns that are based on renewable resources and that does not
involve consumption of fossil fuels. Workshop with the neighbourhood discussion leaders
and resident welfare associations needs to be conducted for necessary transformation of
leisure use patterns. Children, youths and elders need to be encouraged to adopt faith
based measures for relaxation and stress busting. There are several studies that have
demonstrated the impact of prayer and meditation on stress levels. Ecological audit of the

21. leisure engagements need to be supported for getting the desired response for reduction in
the emission of green house gases through transformation of leisure use patterns.
10. Interfaith dialogue for addressing the climate change, farmer’s suicides, and social
security for workers in unorganized sector and transforming finance sector
Appreciation of the common commands for prayer, donation, compassion, charity and
prohibition of usury, adultery, and homosexuality is needed with wider dissemination of
the same. Adoption of these commands addresses the challenge of climate change,
ecologically hostile usurious system, AIDS and so on. Inter-faith dialogue will ensure
generation of responses across the faith groups. Delhi has a vibrant culture of interfaith
dialogue. Sant Rajinder Singh of Sawan Kripal Ashram has been conducting the same for
many years. Youth organisation need to work independently or in collaboration with faith
based organisations for generating more forums of interfaith dialogue.
11. National/ regional/ city/ village based conventions on Inter Faith common responses
for addressing the climate change-
Governments need to be encouraged for holding national conventions for generating
consensus for adoption of faith based measures for addressing the climate change. There
are cultural responses for fighting the atheistic neo-liberal cultural trends emanating from
Europe and copied by youth in the name of globalisation and modernity. National
Convention will address the issue of climate change through adopting the interfaith
commons while preserving religious diversity and ecologically sustainable dietary,
sartorial, linguistic diversities.
12. Carbon neutral colloquiums / meetings / Majlis-e-Naujawan/ Yuva Harit Bharat
Sabha/../../ across the academia
Youths propose globalisation of local efforts for contributing in the mitigation of the
impacts of climate change. Governments recognise the critical role of youths as more and
more organisations led by youths are involved in consultation. It is suggested that Green
youth forums with vernacular names need to be formed and discussions be held with
active government support for getting the desired response pattern for halting the
expansion of unsustainable consumption pattern and leisure use pattern through adoption
of faith based measures.
Conclusion:
Imagining the responses of the weaker species in the face of man made onslaughts on the
non-renewable resources , many youths across the world recognise the threats
represented through the expression of anguish of the billions of poor who are angry,
dispossessed and seeking an end to the process of non-renewable resource based usurious
finance fuelled expansion of consumption and production pattern that is causing serious
loss of livelihood for millions across the Earth and call upon all the governments, civil
society organisations, corporations engaged in ecologically hostile production processes
to boycott the ecologically hostile usurious finance and prevent further loss of
ecologically sustainable habitats that are an immediate outcome of the expansion of
ecologically hostile non-renewable resource based habitats. Nations need to compete in
establishing the models of ecologically safe economy, polity and culture. Youth of the
world are ready to become a leader along with Muslims, Greens and men and women of
the world who wish to halt the political expansion of the atheistic neo-liberal ideology
that is responsible for exacerbating the ecological distress demonstrated through the
increased incidence of drought and expansion of deserts causing suffering for millions.

22. Adaptation is the weakest response and youths call for halting the negative impacts of
climate change. Nothing is impossible.
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