Social transformation to navigate and mitigate climate change at micro-level
What is it about?
Through UN and SDGs, we all know climate change as a global issue. The global propaganda to reduce the ecological footprint applies to everyone equally, which contradicts the social justice approach. Simply said, the popular definition looks at everyone as perpetrators of climate change, but this work intended to capture the experiences of rural India as victims of climate change and their plight of as well as collective action to navigate the effects of climate change.
Why is it important?
This analysis is an entry point to an understudied geography - Global South (particularly India), people from where are often considered to be the ones adding to the global ecological footprint by their 'non-modern' ways of life. However, this paper challenges that perspective by documenting how localized and traditional solutions, at times non-scientific, are potentially attempting to reduce the climate change effects. Also, the community media platform captures the plight of farmers from different angles as they navigate how climate change affects them at an individual and community level, which does not always get time or space in mainstream media.