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Climate change is not a simplistic comparison of apartheid but entails global cooperation to deal with it

Alok Bhargava responds to Desmond Tutu's Comparison of Climate Change as Developed Countries' "Climate Apartheid" On the Poor

Faculty Associate Alok Bhargava responds to a recent addressing on climate change by the famous South African human rights activist Desmond Tutu on Financial Times, where Desmond described climate change as a "climate apartheid" where the the poor and the underdeveloped suffer from the unjust behaviors by the rich Western countries.

Bhargava considers such comparison a bit simplistic given the serious global impacts of climate change, as it affects everyone living on this planet. Rather, Bhargava suggests Desmond Tutu promote more realistic actions in sustainable development, for instance, ''underscore the need for reductions in population growth and in wasteful agricultural and economic practices. ''

Bhargava in another letter at Financial Times, also raises the idea of "Global Government" by Albert Einstein  facing climate change, as it takes greater international co-operation to tackle with " a catastrophic set of events because of intricate feedback loops between higher temperatures, evapotranspiration, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon metabolism that in turn increase polar ice melting and raise sea levels."

See the complete letter to Desmond Tutu at Financial Times

See the complete letter on Global Government at Financial Times

See the complete article by Desmond Tutu at Financial Times

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