Full feedFrom India to Greenland
India seems (and is) quite far away from Greenland and the Arctic. Yet, with the world's second population and with major cities like Mumbai (parts of which lie just a few meters above sea level), the country cannot ignore what is happening.
India is now a major player in international politics. If its population and leaders start making climate change the political priority, the world will listen. Gaurav Sawant, a journalist from Aajtak and Headlines Today, is on board the Arctic Sunrise and he has been blogging his experience so far. He's a good writer and if you have a break this afternoon, I recommend you use it to read his last blog entries on his own Arctic expedition blog.
Large chunks of ice are falling into the water....the water level in the oceans and seas is rising and eating into the land from New York to Sydney and from Mumbai to the Sundarbans on India's east coast.So what is happening and will happen in the years to come is that the sea will eat more and more into the land. And scientists say land under cultivation and land we live on will be devoured by the sea resulting in large scale migration of people from these areas to safer areas - from Bangladesh to India - and this will led to violence and tension.
Hopefully, India's leaders - and the rest of the world's leaders - will be paying attention to him.
Update: Another journalist, Laure Noualhat from Libération, is also on board and also blogging. Read her updates (in French) in her environmental blog.
Comments
The incredible disaster of Artic are ugually at the Glaciers on Alps, Himalaya, and More, when I'm remember Yuor Hands don't haven't the Gloves, don't exist the Wind, Your are on lake on Glaciers on Alps, ugually, and drop by drop, when during your existence? Change only the Latitude, not the Substance..Copenhagen the Last Hope for Humanity!
Posted by: Wu Joong | August 25, 2009 10:01 PM
what an amazing experience for Mr Sawant and also what an eye opener. It is time Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Bangladeshis - people of Asia - forget their other differences and work towards creating a better world for their children. I agree with mr sawant that it is our responsibility to give our children a better world. I want to read more about the impact that arctic melt is likely to have in our region. Inayat
Posted by: Inayat | August 26, 2009 9:49 AM
save the world or a green land with an appeal to the leaders of countries in the world.
Posted by: subur | August 31, 2009 6:42 AM
India, the most populous country after China and following the path of development with equal zeal, can not allow itself to ignore the menace of global warming. Though it can not cut down the carbon emission to zero, as no one can, certainly it can do something to minimise the damage. I am confident, it will. India has vast stretches of coast lines on its eastern and western sides with millions of people living there. It needs to do something that the global warming does not threaten these places. But others should also share the burden as nature does not know political borders. Industrialised nations must take the lion's share also because they have spoiled the nature must.
Posted by: Pramode Mallik | September 24, 2009 12:34 PM