[Reader-list] Thinking Through Figures on Internal Displacement from Kashmir

[inder salim]

thanks Dear Nagraj

we really need reflections like that, we urgently need to debate on '
environment' of course via, social, and psychological

that way  we can intensify 'the present'.

is



On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am broadly in agreement with Shudda's mail. Just a couple of things on the
> general overwhelming reality of displacement. One, just a lot of the
> displacement of dalits and adivasis during the Nehru years and thereafter
> happened with relatively little attention, so is the current displacement
> from the crises in agriculture. This to some may not seem like displacement
> at all since people, particularly the young are running away from
> agriculture seemingly willingly but to me it is displacement none the less,
> and on a massive scale. For instance, operational holdings in India have
> declined by 17 million hectares between about 1992 and 2005 from 125 million
> to 108 million.
>
> Two, how are we going to deal with displacement in the medium term future,
> from the agr crisis, from industrialization, and from climate change. This
> last is going to be simply massive, largely due to sea level rise, declining
> water availability in the HImalayan regions, agriculture affected by climate
> change (as is happening in Bundelkhand). This is not merely in India but
> also displacement in Bangladesh in millions (sea level rise, storm surges)
> with varied poltiical consequences for 'us'. Like most displacements, it
> will affect the poor and all manner of underclasses more, but GW induced
> displacement has the capacity to affect everbody, differentially.
>
> Naga
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