Aspirantship

  Climate Change is Political First, the term ‘climate change’ must be put into political-economic context; nature is not simply metamorphosing independently of human action. Earth’s temperature has warmed by 1.3 degrees Celsius since the inception of the modern industrial order under the Western capitalist powers. We were first losers of this system during the era of direct colonialism and today we are bearing environmental costs that high-carbon-emitting Western countries have externalised. It is thus that many in Pakistan and elsewhere are again calling for climate reparations, decarbonisation and debt cancellation. The belated attention that the floods have garnered globally have forced the usual suspects in the ‘international community’ to mobilise some money for relief, and the state will gladly accept whatever it can get . Charity is Not Enough Many Pakistanis at home and abroad have done much to support relief work on-ground . But it is important to understand that th...