A few weeks ago, there was a news report from India of a group of ‘migrant workers’ (a.k.a slum dwellers in nearby city) were ran over by a train as they slept on the railway line as they took a rest on their way back to ancestral villages as Covid19 induced city lockdown became untenable to their livelihood. This incidence illustrates that millions of slum dwellers have a dignified ancentral roots homes which because of developmental neglect, impropriety & subsequent economic marginalization compel the able bodied young to go seek ‘greener pastures’ in the magnetic cities leaving the elderly to ilk living from climatic change ravaged rural areas. Since all city dwellers eat food they do not grow, it is not rocket science that if these peasant farmers are empowered to deal with climate change & get fair price for their produce in a formal professional commodity exchange platform it will arrest city slums expansion. Also since Covid 19 has taught us that MOCK NATURE at your own peril, why not make use of these city slum dwellers who have been forced back to the villages by city lockdowns as foot soldiers of nature’s damage mitigation projects in post covid19 era? Atleast it will ensure they do not go back to the slum squalor & maybe rural economy might get an economic model better than the traditional capital driven reward (profit) for commodity, service or labour by hook or crook. Unfortunately most governments in choke hold of transnational corporations & financiers are unlikely to initiate environmentally sustainable projects targeted to empower the poor, so that leaves selfless activist to act with meager financial resources but with bountiful passion & vision they can impact.
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A few weeks ago, there was a news report from India of a group of ‘migrant workers’ (a.k.a slum dwellers in nearby city) were ran over by a train as they slept on the railway line as they took a rest on their way back to ancestral villages as Covid19 induced city lockdown became untenable to their livelihood. This incidence illustrates that millions of slum dwellers have a dignified ancentral roots homes which because of developmental neglect, impropriety & subsequent economic marginalization compel the able bodied young to go seek ‘greener pastures’ in the magnetic cities leaving the elderly to ilk living from climatic change ravaged rural areas. Since all city dwellers eat food they do not grow, it is not rocket science that if these peasant farmers are empowered to deal with climate change & get fair price for their produce in a formal professional commodity exchange platform it will arrest city slums expansion. Also since Covid 19 has taught us that MOCK NATURE at your own peril, why not make use of these city slum dwellers who have been forced back to the villages by city lockdowns as foot soldiers of nature’s damage mitigation projects in post covid19 era? Atleast it will ensure they do not go back to the slum squalor & maybe rural economy might get an economic model better than the traditional capital driven reward (profit) for commodity, service or labour by hook or crook. Unfortunately most governments in choke hold of transnational corporations & financiers are unlikely to initiate environmentally sustainable projects targeted to empower the poor, so that leaves selfless activist to act with meager financial resources but with bountiful passion & vision they can impact.