Topic: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
5. Native people are one of the most susceptible sections facing climate change, however, they can act as change agents to mitigate and adapt climate change. Discuss. (250 words)
Reference: Down to Earth
Why the question:
The article explains that Indigenous and tribal peoples play vital roles in global and regional climate action and in fighting poverty.
Key Demand of the question:
Explain in what way native people can contribute to mitigate and adapt to climate change by being change agents.
Directive:
Discuss – This is an all-encompassing directive – you have to debate on paper by going through the details of the issues concerned by examining each one of them. You have to give reasons for both for and against arguments.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Briefly define Indigenous people, highlight their vulnerability/problems face due to Climate Change.
Body:
Indigenous peoples, who have long inhabited an area, are among the first to face the direct consequences of climate change, due to their dependence upon, and close relationship, with the environment and its resources. Climate change exacerbates the difficulties already faced by indigenous communities including political and economic marginalization, loss of land and resources, human rights violations, discrimination and unemployment. For example, in the high altitude regions of the Himalayas, glacial melts affect hundreds of millions of rural dwellers who depend on the seasonal flow of water.
Highlight how they can act as change agent in mitigation as well as adaptation efforts with example.
In conclusion, highlight some challenges for becoming a change agent and some measures to overcome them.
Conclusion:
Conclude in what way they can work as change agents.
