Climate Change is the final warning to human beings that we are dangerously close to breaching the limits of nature's patience with our current mode of development. We use too much of the resources of nature at too fast a pace and also burden too much waste on it. In both cases we have breached nature's capacities. The most worrisome aspect of our development is the huge expenditure of energy. We have forgotten to use our own energy which is instead being stored in our bodies as fat. So farcical is the situation that even to exercise our bodies to reduce this fat we use external energy in the form of treadmills.
The Bhils like all other indigenous people have traditionally used their own energy to do most things and have lived well within the renewable capacity of nature. We have a lot to learn from their frugal lifestyle. Over the next few weeks we will discuss how the Bhils of Alirajpur are mitigating the effects of climate change through communitarian solidarity.
I am not sure how much Blog Action Day is effective but it provides me with an opportunity to focus on a burning issue every year for a few days.
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