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#FarmersProtests r 4 small, marginal, med farmers (95%) rights 2sustain+fud security. Even der most chem-, energy-intense prodctn causes <10% GHGs, other pollution
New farm laws cause more econ precarity, so more unregulated extractn n pollution. https://twitter.com/Somesh_IAS/status/1361336055077609475
#FarmersProtests r 4 small, marginal, med farmers (95%) rights 2sustain+fud security. Even der most chem-, energy-intense prodctn causes <10% GHGs, other pollutionNew farm laws cause more econ precarity, so more unregulated extractn n pollution. https://twitter.com/Somesh_IAS/status/1361336055077609475
A few key studies:
Jayaraman n Murari (2014): http://www.ras.org.in/climate_change_and_agriculture_83 Indian agri a tiny contributor of climate change, but a major victim of d same
Ind rich emit 7 times>poor. All Agri+Agri transport=only 22% ghg. Vehicles, industries = major causes https://scroll.in/article/984472/in-india-the-rich-cause-seven-times-more-emissions-than-the-poor
Jayaraman n Murari (2014): http://www.ras.org.in/climate_change_and_agriculture_83 Indian agri a tiny contributor of climate change, but a major victim of d same
Ind rich emit 7 times>poor. All Agri+Agri transport=only 22% ghg. Vehicles, industries = major causes https://scroll.in/article/984472/in-india-the-rich-cause-seven-times-more-emissions-than-the-poor
So any1 bemoaning climate change n pollution frm Indian agriculture must
1) learn dat most Indian agri (95%farmers) contribute <10% emissions. ACTION NEEDED 4: Indstrs (even big agri), vehicls, rich ppl emitting >75%
2) see how new #FarmLaws wil rise emissions, pollution
1) learn dat most Indian agri (95%farmers) contribute <10% emissions. ACTION NEEDED 4: Indstrs (even big agri), vehicls, rich ppl emitting >75%
2) see how new #FarmLaws wil rise emissions, pollution
Dats national data
Locally, Punjab-Haryana farmers blamed 4 pollution: pesticide overuse n stubble burning. Still, better dan vehicles https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/story/delhi-pollution-vehicles-not-stubble-burning-main-cause-says-teri-study-1380557-2018-11-01
Reasons 4 above=POOR GOVT SUPPORT. New #FarmLaws make dat ZERO support +Capitalist buyers=100s of kinds of pollution.
Locally, Punjab-Haryana farmers blamed 4 pollution: pesticide overuse n stubble burning. Still, better dan vehicles https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/story/delhi-pollution-vehicles-not-stubble-burning-main-cause-says-teri-study-1380557-2018-11-01
Reasons 4 above=POOR GOVT SUPPORT. New #FarmLaws make dat ZERO support +Capitalist buyers=100s of kinds of pollution.
+ Farmers r intimately aware of ecology's importance
Farmers point dat #FarmLaws DONT MENTION THE ENVIRONMENT. Further, they stress on the ecological roots of current farming crisis--1960s'Â Green Revolution, whose wrongs d new #FarmLaws wud only worsen. https://amp.dw.com/en/the-ecological-roots-of-indias-farming-crisis/a-56368937?__twitter_impression=true
Farmers point dat #FarmLaws DONT MENTION THE ENVIRONMENT. Further, they stress on the ecological roots of current farming crisis--1960s'Â Green Revolution, whose wrongs d new #FarmLaws wud only worsen. https://amp.dw.com/en/the-ecological-roots-of-indias-farming-crisis/a-56368937?__twitter_impression=true
