{"id":124364,"date":"2021-08-07T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=124364"},"modified":"2021-08-11T17:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:59:02","slug":"how-covid-19-protocols-can-propagate-social-discrimination-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-covid-19-protocols-can-propagate-social-discrimination-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 protocols can propagate social discrimination in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-from-four-brics-countries-to-carry-out-genomic-sequencing-and-mathematical-modelling-of-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: To learn about the climate crisis and lessons from Covid-19 to avert it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Covid-19 has brought many changes in people&#8217;s behaviour. Similar such behaviour is needed to avert the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Population and Climate crisis\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The pressure of the rising population is designated as a significant contributing factor to the climate crisis. Earth can sustain only a fraction of the present world population\u2019s consumptive demand<\/li>\n<li>Population pressure, along with energy and resource-intensive lifestyles, is acting as a major cause of climate change.<\/li>\n<li>This will induce crises like health issues, economic issues and other issues.<\/li>\n<li>However, it is <strong>unethical to impose the pressure of costly lifestyles of western people up on the people in developing countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Covid-19 and Climate crisis<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The<strong> outbreak of COVID-19<\/strong> in the human population is rightfully denoted as a <strong>prime example<\/strong> <strong>of environmental imbalance affecting human health<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A direct link between environmental imbalances and health emergencies is likely to give rise to the <strong>medicalisation of the climate crisis.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Few important changes brought by COVID-19<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Medicalization of death:\u00a0<\/strong>This includes distancing of the dead body, bureaucratic restrictions imposed on conducting the last rites, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Medicalization of social experiences:\u00a0<\/strong>This includes Covid appropriate behaviour, Social distancing norms, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Suggestions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Numerous initiatives like the half-earth project, neo-Malthusianism, United Nations Agenda 21 showcase the<strong> need to contain or reduce the growing population<\/strong> especially the global South population.<\/p>\n<p>On many occasions, experts have highlighted that our capability to manage COVID-19 demonstrates our future capability to manage climate change.\u00a0Many experts argue to <strong>announce climate change as a health emergency<\/strong>. It is time for global nations to consider that seriously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Down to Earth Relevance: To learn about the climate crisis and lessons from Covid-19 to avert it. Synopsis: Covid-19 has brought many changes in people&#8217;s behaviour. Similar such behaviour is needed to avert the climate crisis. Population and Climate crisis\u00a0 The pressure of the rising population is designated as a significant contributing factor to the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-covid-19-protocols-can-propagate-social-discrimination-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How COVID-19 protocols can propagate social discrimination in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8958,3005,8774,216,8959],"class_list":["post-124364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-caste-based-discrimination","tag-covid-19-2","tag-covid-19-protocols","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-social-discrimination","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704935889},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}