[GJM] Interfaith common for addressing the climate change, usurious finance system, AIDs etc..

[Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam]

Dear Bill, 
 
I hope u recall that we worked for the draft..alongwith Pavel Kasyonov..on the occassion of Johannesburg summit of Sustainable Development. Got your latest address from the post of Mary ..
 
Why do u think that ardent "Islamic and Christian fundamentalists" are not doing good for themselves and the world..I think we need to get all united in interfaith commons. Please find the paper in this regard. The paper discussed the following:
 

Assessment of  responses to climate change are being made, 
assessments of the instruments for mitigating the impacts of climates, 
hurdles faced in the implementation of the Kyoto protocol emission targets
Constraints in the development strategy and proposal for ecologically sustainable development strategy
Call for adoption of ecologically safe and socially inclusive governance framework for ecologically sustainability and socially equity
Innovative faith based strategies 
Youth Strategies 
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It has the following section identifying problems in strategies
 
There are strategies that have been identified with global recognition of the need to reduce green house emissions. Even so, they get defeated as goals are set with contradicting outcomes and visions .For example, GDP calculation does not consider the impact on environment and ecological costs and thus are not therefore factors in the calculation of Gross Domestic Product. Enormous costs on environments are ignored following the conviction that all the resources are for the use and their non-utilisation is an indicator of low technological development. An ecologically sustainable habitat is not considered valuable with ecologically sustainable livelihoods. Quarterly reporting on the increase in the GDP does not factor the increase in green house gas emissions. 7th Generation Initiative in Canada with wellbeing measurement Act in an initiative for factoring the ecological costs and cost of women's work at home www.sustainwellbeing.net . They believe that
 calculation of gross domestic product must include the cost on the environment that our actions in the present have www.sustainwellbeing.net. Mike Nickerson and Joe Jordon have been campaigning for years.
 
Political parties continue to be inspired by short term visions and it is not quite their fault. SIMPOL is working with the voters globally for influencing the simultaneous adoption of policies. There is need to ensure more and more simultaneous actions globally for peaceful actions, decisions, choices that will contribute in collective ecological safety. Political parties need to be educated for supporting the policies that ensure protection of ecologically sustainable livelihoods and habitats. Labour League Foundation ,Sufi Trust and CEASIG as part of National Forum of Forest Workers and Forest People supporting the rights of land in their traditional habitats through deleting the impact of colonial legislations that  deprived them their rights to homestead and agriculture lands. Green parties are concerned about the ecologically safe issues but their voters are few .Most of the political parties are concerned with issues that are more appealing
 to the elite and the middle class in the immediate present.
 
Another major hurdle experienced in the way of getting global responses for mitigating the climate change is continued marketing of fossil fuel intensive consumption patterns, urban habitats designs, development paradigm, competitive nationalisms for seeking the markers of fossil fuel intensive lifestyles, devaluation of the ecologically sustainable agriculture consumption patterns. There exists continued political support for cultural products and processes that are inimical to national and global ecological safety. While there are measures for ecological impact/ environment impact assessments but then there markedly exists absence of concerns for addressing the root causes of ecological and man made disasters. Marginalisation of the faith based youth groups by the atheistic intelligentsia continues to be problem that needs to be addressed .They need to be brought on board .
 
Ecologically safe national strategy/ development paradigm
 
Considering the above, it is proposed that an ecologically safe national strategy/ development paradigm contains the following features:
 

Marketing of ecologically safe consumption ,production, leisure use patterns 
Discouraging ecologically hostile consumption and production patterns 
Promotion of neighbourhood trade and education and discouraging ecologically hostile trade and education
Ecologically sustainable agriculture
Promotion of ecologically sustainable transport Systems
Faith based measures for transformation of leisure use pattern
Promotion and protection of ecologically sustainable habitats
ecologically safe interest free and debt free finance system
Ecologically safe models of success
 


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