1. Should climate change boil down to what kind of advocacy?
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3. EXACT IMPACT ? Gradual over hundreds of Years Perhaps Irreversible Scale of Uncertainty in change Coarse climate models
4. Is it Science or Aping? Anthropogenic CFP – Local/national/regional/global Best educated guess Less water and declining forest – local/global Affects Farmers ‘ livelihood Affects evolutionary biology
5. ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE Mitigation 1980 -2000 Meddling Mitigation 2000 -2007 Emerging Adaptation – 2008 Two schools of thoughts Money Rules, Not Climate change
6. ABSURDITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE Awareness/Noise Advocacy/Blame game More space for loans, grants Free rides for politicians/NGO/INGOs
7. WHERE SUPPORT SHOULD GO? Limits on resource utilization Mitigating farmers’ plight Financing adaptive technology Tax reward for less carbon footprint Stringent resource use Policies at all levels
8. KNOWING THE WRONG? Past records nil, no future plans Knowledge-based policies nil No threshold limits on resources Pre-disposed to INGOs/NGOs NGOs/Government Nexus
9. SELF ADVOCACY Sensible use of resources for households Community groundwater recharge, tree plantation Learn from Peer –review societies Protest/avoid redundant talk shops Stand up against political/power/funding feudals Raise voice for what went wrong in public forum Increase your effort for transparent funding
10. COLLECTIVE ADVOCACY Independent Review/monitoring of natural resources Inclusive Human Resource development Enabling Independent Knowledge-based Institutions Integration of education/management Streamlining NGOs and INGOs
