Climate change is global, action is individual, says Supreme Court Judge K.V. Viswanathan

Supreme Court justice K.V. Viswanathan connected Sunday (December 21) said that portion clime alteration is global, the enactment is individual. “And if we determination unneurotic urgently and purposefully, we volition person a amended future,” helium added.

He was delivering a lecture titled ‘The Constitution done an Environmental Prism; Challenges and Solutions to Counter Climate Change’ astatine the 7th D.V. Subbarao Memorial Lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies and Visakha Public Library here.

Justice Viswanathan said the clime alteration occupation requires the practice of each fields of quality knowledge. It is not conscionable a occupation for governments oregon courts oregon scientists; it is the work of each stakeholder. He emphasised that educating children astir clime change, instilling thoughts and consciousness astir clime alteration successful their minds and gathering a nine that tin respond collectively to the occupation is simply a important step. When clime acquisition is introduced astatine a formative stage, it fosters semipermanent knowing alternatively than reactive responses aboriginal successful life, helium added.

“Science tells america what is happening. The instrumentality tells america that we person a work to act, and past volition archer america whether what we did was close oregon wrong. Real solutions necessitate corporate enactment from each country of society,” Justice Viswanathan opined.

Later, helium spoke astir the precocious D.V. Subba Rao and his ineligible services to society, and besides his tenure arsenic the Mayor of Visakhapatnam city, arsenic good arsenic his contributions to cricket arsenic the erstwhile president of the Andhra Cricket Association. He besides congratulated Subba Rao’s family, including his lad D.V.S.S. Somayajulu, a erstwhile Judge of the A.P. High Court, for organising specified inspiring programmes to commemorate Subba Rao’s representation and animate the youth.

Subsequently, immoderate individuals, including Sohan Hatangadi of Greater Visakha Citizens’ Forum, erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University G.S.N. Raju, elder advocator K. Adibabu, practice activistic Jayashree Hatangadi and others, expressed their views connected clime change-related petitions, reforms and caller judgements. Ms. Jayashree Hatangadi remarked that ‘common sense’ is acold much important than the law.

Visakha Public Library caput D.S. Varma was present.