Why should the fisher people pay for the impacts of climate change created chiefly by other vested interests?
Steven Earl Salmony of the AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, relayed a press release (19-04-2008) issued by TFU (Tamilnadu Fisher workers Union), KSMTF (Kerala Independent Fish workers Federation) and VFM (Voices from the Margins), which announced that South Indian fisher people are demanding justice. Marine scientists warn that future food security for millions of people “is at risk because over-fishing, climate change and pollution are inflicting massive damage on the world’s oceans.” A brief segment in the TED video of a presentation by Al Gore in February 2008 dramatically showed a time-lapsed (1950-2000) representation of growth in areas of the world’s oceans (depicted with salmon color) that are “over-fished”. Concerned with climate change and fisher people’s livelihood, organizers held a conference on 17 April 2008. Key points made at the conference: • Sea level is rising in the last past decade at an unimaginable rate of increase. Sea level is expected raise 5 meters
