COMMUNITY
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY
And Helping Others
Editor’s note: As this issue of Parvati Magazine goes to press, perhaps the two most preoccupying
situations in the news are those in the Gaza strip, where hostilities continue to claim lives on both
sides, and in the Ukraine, where a passenger jet carrying almost 300 people was shot down, with
no survivors. Both these issues are so complex and changing so rapidly that we do not feel able to
adequately address them in a single monthly column. We encourage you to read up about these
issues and to visualize peace descending on these areas. In this column, we will address something
that is getting less attention but also affects us all.
W
hile some voices continue to persist that climate change is not real, the scientific community (and even insurance companies) have moved on from “if” to the “when” and
“how” of climate change. Temperatures and sea levels are expected to rise. Some parts of
the world will feel this impact much more strongly than others. For example, densely populated coastal areas in South Asia may see their land underwater within the coming century.
This will displace hundreds of thousands of people who will need a place to live and a way
to grow food. Such displacement will certainly lead to new migration patterns globally and