The climate change that we face today is not the first that has fundamentally altered life on earth. Climate change is a major concern for women. In fact, over the earth has grown hotter and colder several times have flowered and hosted great herds of animals. What few knew until recently, however, is that these changes have shaped our own evolution as humans. The earth’s extreme shifts in temperature have pruned human’s complex evolutionary tree, lopping off many branches that proved unable to adjust to the changing weather.
According to a 2019 study by Oxfam, the subject of which is Climate Induced Migration in Pakistan, the growing problems of water in the coastal districts of Sindh and women are forced to cover an average distance of two kilometers to obtain it. Sometimes you have to travel the same amount of time to the water wells several times a day.
In 2016, according to UNICEF research, women and girls around the world spend 200 million hours or 22,800 years collecting water every day, a huge waste of their precious time. Imagine 200 million hours, 8.3 million days, or more than 22,800 years. According to Sanjay Vajsekara, head of UNICEF’s Global Head of Water and Sanitation Hygiene, “it would be like a woman in the Stone Age starting with an empty bucket and carrying water to this day.” Did not reach home Think about how much the world has developed at the moment, but women still face these problems.
According to a 2011 study conducted in different parts of rural Sindh (entitled, Climate Change and Women), “There has been a significant increase in time spent in search of water and timber. Excessive deforestation and inevitable scarcity of resources have caused problems. ”Climate change has also put families in financial trouble. As a result, many basic women’s rights, such as education, nutrition and health, were affected.
We are understandably focused on our own circumstances, but the experiences of our ancestors provide an important warning .The Highlights of the study show that:
Ø Climate change is a major factor in evolution, shaping the history of life on Earth
Ø Humans usually feel excluded by climate change-induced extinction risk
Ø We demonstrate that climate change drove past human species extinct
The extensive study, used in part a high-resolution past climate emulator, which provides temperature and rainfall yearly maxima and minima and net primary productivity with a 1,000 year resolution.
There are more health problems and malnutrition. Compared to the men who travel with these women.
Various studies have shown that women are the most affected by the ravages of climate change, in fact, according to The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, women and children are more affected than men during disasters. I die 14 times more.
One of the main reasons for this is the difference in opportunities provided to both boys and girls. In many countries, women are considered responsible for housework and childcare, which means that women are not given equal opportunities for access to education or political decision-making. This impedes their ability to make quick decisions in emergencies. Unfortunately, all programs and policies regarding climate change and the effects of climate change are made without the consideration and participation of women.
Many steps are needed in this regard, such as training women to adapt to changing seasons, increasing their knowledge of skills and resource use, and ensuring their participation in policy-making and decision-making, so that decisions are based on ground realities. Be grounded, and the gap between policy-making and implementation needs to be bridged to eliminate the gender-based risks of climate change.
The report concludes “our own future depends critically on the health of Earth’s supporting ecosystems and the entire living biota, and our analysis provides a stark warning concerning the power of anthropogenic future climate change to translate directly into extinction risk for other species less well equipped to adapt than sp. Homo. This suggests that the threat posed by the current, anthropogenic climate change for global wildlife and, by extension, ourselves, is possibly even more powerful than is generally appreciated.“
According to a 2011 study conducted in different parts of rural Sindh (entitled, Climate Change and Women), “There has been a significant increase in time spent in search of water and timber. Excessive deforestation and inevitable scarcity of resources have caused problems. ”Climate change has also put families in financial trouble. As a result, many basic women’s rights, such as education, nutrition and health, were affected.
If analyzed, rural women in Pakistan face more problems than urban women. The role of the woman of the city in this regard seems to us to be somewhat different and encouraging. She lives in a much better environment and with a little more autonomy than a rural woman, so she can do small but important work to improve the environment if she wants to.
Due to the drought in Sindh due to climate change in Pakistan, women have to suffer in carrying water from many miles away. Similarly, increasing poverty due to climate change affects the health of pregnant women. Climate change disasters have also destroyed women’s employment opportunities.
Our ancestors may have been able to do nothing about their circumstances and so inevitably die out. We do not have to. We possess the knowledge and scientific capacity to generate the knowledge we lack to respond, indeed, to change our circumstances. We have no excuse to be wiped out by climate change. In fact, we have no excuse to allow climate change to precede. If we made it, we owe it to ourselves and future generations to stop it, even reverse it now.
We have the opportunity to take action and work with solutions that will help reduce our contribution to global warming.
We must look for and support projects that help REDUCE our contribution to global warming, but we need to do more than that. We need to also find solutions to DECREASING what we have already created. A balanced Biodiversity plays a big part in that solution.