Climate Change and Economic Growth
As known facts, about a third of India’s population lives below the poverty line, and earning less than US$1 per day, establishing the rigid choice as we are responsible for Climate and Economy. The rising industrialisation and urbanisation rapidly increase the challenge towards sustaining our land, while the global warming accounts for a questioned or impeded economy.
The IPCC in its 2001 report predicts global temperatures to rise by 1.4–5.8 degrees Celsius over the next 100 years, including a 2.7–4.3 degrees Celsius increase in India by the end of this millennium. An increase in rainfall over the sub-continent by 6–8 per cent and that sea level would rise up to 88 cms by 2100 is further predicted.
It is time that the government makes stringent rules to tackle the problems. If the employment is a problem then, various other resources of manual and skilled labour should be explored. India being one of the major powers today, has to shoulder the responsibility too, than just pointing out flaws in other economies, since we cannot blame other countries for the floods in Rajasthan n climatic irregularities in Orissa.
The threshold of being eco-friendly and economy-friendly has pressurised great deal. We are bound by needs.