This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
A Green Cross Code?
Lorenzo Marsili (Director of the Berggruen Institute Europe) points out that the Red Cross, came into being in 1863. Its setting up was a response to the horrors of war. The Red Cross (closely followed by the Red Crescent) was designed to bring humanitarian relief to war zones. Marsili suggests the climate disaster means we now need to set up a Green Cross bringing humanitarian relief to the victims of floods, wildfires, droughts etc. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/09/war-red-cross-green-climate-disasters). To be effective, any Green Cross would need a very wide range of easily-mobilised expertise, as well as substantial resources (in terms of both equipment and personnel). It's difficult to see where the personnel and the required funding would come from. The UN already sends folk to areas devasted by violent storms, earthquakes etc. Such operations are not without their challenges. For example, UN forces, sent to Haiti after hurricane damage, were accused of inadvertently introducing a Nepalese strain of Cholera to the island. Perhaps, however, a redesignation of some UN Peace-keeping forces, could form the basis of a Green Cross?
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