(FREE Full Length) Essay Test 12 – 13th November

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7 responses to “(FREE Full Length) Essay Test 12 – 13th November”

1. 

   ForumIAS

   November 27, 2016

   Good points. Thanks for the inputs. Good luck for Mains.
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   Vivaan Khanna

   November 27, 2016

   thanks vivi…some points have already been included implicitly or explicitly….but i could not think many so some of ur pointers are really helpful…nothing is bakwaas 😉
3. 

   ViVi

   November 22, 2016

   other points which can be included:

   other dimensions

   1. forest fire lead to detruction of fire wood, thus provide LPG
   2. femization of agri labor due to man migration to cities. This itself is due to erratic climate change
   3. low productivity in agri leads to rise ion fertility…thus women health indirectly linked to climate change
   4. urban flooding …elderly women most sucsptible
   5. sex trade and traficking may increase…already very hgh in sub saharan and arbia region due to low income.

   solution:
   1. allied activities in agri should promoted
   2. financila inclusion
   3. increase sensitivity among police and lawyers regarding women issues.
   4. promotes skill dev. among women to help them shift to nong agri business
   5. engage women in renewable sector as they are the once who are going to affected by climate change more than men——–bakwaas but can be rephrased.
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   November 15, 2016

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   November 15, 2016

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   ForumIAS

   November 13, 2016

   Well tried. Keep writing.
7. 

   Vivaan Khanna

   November 13, 2016

   GENDER RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS NEED OF THE HOUR
   “Mother Earth has enough for everyone’s need but not for everybody’s greed”-M.Gandhi
   Human beings have always been proximate to nature since their inception. During the time of early men, there used to be ‘naturalism’ where fate of human was determined by nature. They complied and adapted without any interference. But when hardships of living grew, they decided to find out the ways and hence started intervening in natural things. Unfortunately, the extent of human intervention was not limited to fulfilling one’s need but it was overtaken by greed. We needed shelter to protect us from rain,winter and wild animals but we started building up lavish bungalows by cutting down trees at large scale.
   For how long nature should face the brunt of unmindful activities of human? It retorted in the form of natural disasters and climate change. This time irony is that we are facing difficulty in adapting to the change. Ultimately our rationality came handy and we decided to take corrective measures at earliest to prevent the fury of nature. Recent Conference of Parties, Montreal Protocol, Kigali agreement etc are attempt by global leaders to prevent further damage to nature.
   But even this attempt is futile until and unless interests of various groups, especially vulnerable groups are not paid heed. How can we claim ourselves to be successful in rescuing many persons from a flood when we see that a lame man has been left out? Or how can we say that preventing forest fire in Uttarakhand was at its best when supposedly we see many tribal people have been burnt alive in the fire? So our efforts in response to climate change should be such that most of the human beings are protected.
   Among all vulnerable sections, women are most vulnerable to the climate change. Reasons are many. Firstly, they are mostly dependent upon natural resources(land,water,wood etc).This dependence has increased in 21st century as more men are preferring secondary and tertiary sector. Secondly, they have the responsibility of taking care of children and cooking food. If any climate change takes place they first think of their families before themselves. Cooking food using natural resources aggravates their problem when they have to go long in search of water and wood. Lastly, their movement is restricted due to various social and economic factors which make them more vulnerable. So gender sensitive response is desirable.
   Now, once we have decided to include women in our response to climate change question arises but how? Answer is that climate change broadly involves four pillars-mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer and financing. So while building up these pillars need of the hour is that we have women’s concerns in background. In following section we would touch upon four pillars and how they should be inclusive of women.
   Firstly, attempts of mitigation involve using new technologies and renewable energies, making older equipment more energy efficient, or changing management practices or consumer behaviour. Now, very often women are not well equipped with technology due to their educational and social status. How can a woman be expected to know to run a hybrid car when she has always been kept behind veil? How can she be forced to use CNG gas when she had used only wood for igniting fire? So mitigation efforts should be inclusive enough to focus on training of women to use the technologies and allow exemptions if needed. In this respect India’s drive of UJJWALA to provide LPG connections to rural women is commendable. Its aim is to make them learn to use LPG which would be helpful in long term.
   Now, while mitigation measures are taken by govt, people should also learn to adapt to climate change. This is called adaptation. Since women are mostly deprived of nutrition in their families, have to undergo monthly periods, conceive babies and considering their family responsibilities, it can be said they may face difficulty in adaptation. Though nature has provided them with more resilience power than men but still community members should be empathetic enough to make them learn resilience. Their involvement in decision making at community level, environmental protection, food security and making them come out of veil to work may help in adaptation. Their restrictions on dress code and social isolation must also be removed beforehand.
   Mitigation and adaptation measures involve technology transfer. In recent times, we see that how developing countries are batting for technology transfer from developed countries. Such kind of obligation like situation has risen because latter are more advanced than former. Same logic applies in men versus women. Since former are more technically advanced, they should pass it off to latter. Once they have learnt it they would develop methods to built sustainable settlements, use renewable energies and who knows that they may even come up with more sustainable things which may benefit whole humanity.
   Lastly, all is not well unless women are made financially empowered to respond to climate change. For this to materialize firstly social barrier of not sending daughters to schools for they have to collect wood and water from far reached areas have to be removed. Also, they should not be treated as weaker in terms of economic matters. Their involvement in where and what to spend will pay the dividends in learning to adapt to climate change. Recent Mckinsey report has said that India’s GDP can grow by 30% if women are employed to their capabilities. This proves that women are potential game changers in economic matters too, no matter even if it is concerned with climate change.
   According to 2006 study of London School of Economics, when economic and social rights are fulfilled for both sexes, same number of people die in disasters. At the same time when women don’t enjoy social and economic rights equal to men then more women die in disasters.
   So, as the saying goes that ‘women are not born women rather they are made so’; women are no less than men while fighting with climate change but they have been made slaves of society and economy. Otherwise they are blessed with all kind of intelligence and capabilities to combat climate change. For example, they possess more traditional knowledge than men. So, why we should not use it to treat diseases which emerge due to floods,Tsunami etc? Since they used to fetch water and wood from far reaching areas, they know number of ways from reaching one place to another. So, why should we not use their knowledge to run away when any natural calamity strikes in?
   Women can definitely play leadership role in fighting with climate change. But for this, behavioural change is required and men would have to shed their egoism. They would have to take women as their partners than treating them as victims of climate change.
   Thus, while we battle for realizing Stoics philosophy of ‘living in harmony with nature’, we have to treat our opposite gender with dignity and respect along with taking measures for long past discrimination. Then only our measures for climate change would be successful enough and then only we can make our environment more sustainable for present and future generation.