The old industrialised world might respond that for much of the period since the 1850s nobody knew about man-made global warming.  DOES THAT MIGIGATE ITS RESPONSIBILTY?And why should the current generation be punished for the crimes of its forebears? Is that really fair?

Then there's the question of who's polluting now - when we do know the damage it's doing. China belts out more CO2 than the United States, and the gap between the two is expected to grow as China continues to develop. So perhaps it is China, not the United States, which should bear the greatest burden?

These are the sorts of questions which have dogged global climate change summits. And you can see why.

The risk of Global warming 

Animal protection generally refers to the prevention, reduction, or elimination of harms done to animals by humans.

Animals should be protected because science increasingly demonstrates that animals are more sensitive, aware, and intelligent than has long been believed in places like the US. The knowledge that animals are very likely aware of the conditions in which they’re kept in places like factory farms, or the abuses they suffer during laboratory experiments, means that a change in practices is long overdue.

In the United States, there are numerous laws aimed at protecting both wild and captive animals. Though far from being perfect, and in many cases difficult to enforce, these laws help inform the ways animals are treated by individuals and corporations.

The 28 hour law stipulates that no animal can be transported for longer than 28 consecutive hours without being given food, water, and rest by temporary unloading. Transporting animals such as cows, pigs, and sheep is common within industrial agriculture since animals are often sent to different grazing pastures, or from feedlots to slaughterhouses. Since transport can be stressful for animals , this law aims to mitigate the more harmful effects, preventing animals from going without food, water, or rest for prolonged periods

So, we as the people need to work together, keep the oceans clean, not throw waste plastic anywhere, should not burn extensive fossil fuels and shouldn’t condone poaching. 
 
 “Together we can make our environment stable.” 

- Vyaan Pande

Actually, it is.

-HUNAR ARORA 

Democracy is a Privilege. This present age is unable to understand the kind of life our parents have given us, something that wasn't even a dream for those who lived on the streets in prior times. If we ever time-travelled back to the start of the 20th century, then we would have known the actual battles. Can we conceive of the idea of being treated as slaves? From 1947 to currently 2022, it has been almost 75 years of freedom India flourished. It has become one of the most diverse, noteworthy, and fastest-growing countries on the globe. But What if we did not get independence? What If we were under a barbaric oppressor like Kim Jong-un? would we have been still succeeding or would we have disintegrated? 

Not all the nations in the world are under a democratic type of regime like Saudi Arabia, China, Jordan, Vietnam and North Korea. Some individuals believe that all countries that are not under a democratic kind of government are in debt. But I believe this statement is entirely inaccurate. Today, Saudi Arabia is a very successful country with a population of 33 million. Nations that got their independence lately like Russia and Ukraine are one of the most influential countries in the world. Therefore, we know that democracy is a privilege and not a necessity.

 

 

A privilege more than a necessity:
The essential feature of a democratic form of government is that it gives power to people to elect their government, control it, and remove it from power if it doesn’t function properly. Democracies allow people to choose their representatives through periodic elections and ensure that all sections of society have a say in the functioning of the government. People can voice their opinions and put forward problems that need to be resolved. If the person in power doesn’t perform his/her duties properly and doesn’t resolve the crowd’s problems, the public has the right to protest against the party or the person. If the majority is with the people, the person would be removed from his/her post and a new person would be appointed from the same or the different party. This even depends on the public’s mood and sentiments. The elections take place in a frequent manner, after 5 years in India.

Deeptansh Behal

Now comes the million dollar question into play, well, actually the $300 billion question.
Who's responsible for fixing this mess? The rich countries who have now developed on the foundation of those carbon emissions? Or the poor countries who are currently emitting the most carbon? 

The question of blame is a useful one to find the most effective and fairest solution to this global crisis. We know that global warming is caused by human activity, but pinning down exactly who is responsible is trickier than it might seem. Many groups have been accused of being at blame, from fossil fuel firms and cash-rich countries, to politicians, rich people and yes, even all of us. The extractors of fossil fuels, the manufacturers who make products using them, the government who regulates these products, the consumers who buy them. I guess that makes up a big chunk of everyone around, right? 

In a way or the other, each living being of possibly each existing species is paying, by suffering. Animals losing habitats, food resources and the fellow members of their community makes them a victim of global warming. The poor, who haven't even contributed much suffer more than the rich. Each plant who's now missing the fertility of the soil in which they reside is forced to be hand-cuffed by the polluting environment because of our mistakes. 

Consider China, today's biggest CO₂ emitter, the United States of America, who has come out on top of the per capita emissions list, or India, who too is on the way to becoming one of the biggest contributor to global warming. No one wants to be the country responsible for screwing things up for everybody! Fixing this global crisis would be a far more satisfying legacy.

Whether or not you think emissions cuts should be negotiated internationally, few would argue against the need for richer countries to take more responsibility. The thing is, developing countries don't want to put their economies on pause while they invest in low-emission energy sources. So, global warming hits our bottom line and speed is of the essence, and practically speaking, rich nations can act faster and do more right now. Nations that have more stand to lose more from global warming, which is why it's also in developed nations' best interests' to lead the charge in cutting their own emissions, while helping other countries do the same. Paying now will save trillions of dollars by preventing global warming, displacement and loss of life in the near-future. And that's something that every nation on Earth, rich or poor, should be able to agree on.



- Maanika Verma
Grade 7A (Golden Eagles) 

-Uditi Dilawari
Grade VII (Golden Eagles)

DEMOCRACY AS PRIVILEGE
The main feature of a democratic form of government is that it gives power to people to elect their government, control it, and remove it from power if it doesn’t function properly.
The elections take place in a frequent manner, after 5 years in India. But if the if the person in power doesn’t perform his/her duties properly and doesn’t resolve the crowd’s problems, the public has the right to protest against the party or the person. If the majority is with the people, the person would be removed from his/her post and a new person would be appointed from the same or the different party.

- Arshia Pachnanda
   Grade-7B

The frequency and cost of natural disasters is rapidly increasing. Since the 1980s the number of billion dollar natural disasters on average each year in the United States has tripled from two to six. In 2011 there were 14 separate US$1 billion plus weather events and losses topped $60 billion. This year Hurricane Sandy alone will exceed that total.

As costs have exceeded the ability of insurance companies, individual homeowners, businesses and communities to pay, some states have created statewide pooled risk funds. After Hurricane Andrew in 1992, for example, Florida created the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.

An increasing federalization of disaster relief has been occurring since the 1988 passage of the Stafford Act, which required Washington to assume at least 75 percent of the costs of federally declared disasters. Predictably, the number of such declarations has increased dramatically, from 53 in 1992 under George H.W. Bush to 110 in 1999 under Bill Clinton, to 143 in 2008 under George W. Bush. In 2011 President Obama set a record by declaring federal disasters 242 times.
In the United States, a $10 per ton of CO2 tax would raise about $60 billion annually, sufficient funds to pay for adaptation, mitigation and assistance for at least for the foreseeable future. An additional $10 per ton paid by the richer nations alone would provide sufficient funds on an international scale to pay for adaptation and compensation, although all nations should be required to pay something in catastrophic insurance premiums.

Fifty-five of the 58 nations included in the Vulnerable 20, a group of developing nations, which includes Kenya, Philippines and Colombia, suffered climate-related economic losses of over half a trillion dollars in the first two decades of this century, according to a report put together by the Loss and Damage Collaboration, a global group of researchers, activists, lawyers and decision makers.

Global warming is something that can right now be cured otherwise prevented. the moment it reaches the extent we loose our lives to it. Paying now can save us and lives of others and this is something that all the other nations should agree upon and be ready to pay millions or trillions of dollars preventing it.


-Samaksh sareen
Grade 7C

~Aryaman Khanna

No,we wouldn't have but in the way of how we are wasting water .It will not take us long to regret our decisions .

The main reasons of global warming are:-

Manufacturing goods ,Cutting down forests,Usingtransportation, Producing food,Poweringbuildings,Consuming too much

But the question is who pays for global warming ? Is it humans, Is it animals or is it plants . Some people might disagree when I say that humans are  least affected by global warming but it

Is what it is .Unfortunately most humans don't think twice when they use excessive amount of water. At

the end of the day bird and animals suffer because of us.Outof almost 11,154 species 159 have become extinct,226 are critically endangered, 800 are vulnerable and 1,018 are near threatened.

We can't possibly say that all of these birds became extinct because of human activity but researchers say that more than three fourth of these birds became extinct because of humans and global warming.  So we can see who is paying  for global warming.

"Not us but them" The ones that are not even responsible for all of this  are paying . How can this even be acceptable?

So I conclude this with asking you whom do you think is paying for global warming?

However, rather than looking at them as an ‘issue’, why not look at it as an opportunity to help these animals? All they’re looking for is a little bit of care and love.

So, if I started an Animal protection movement, I would

Create shelters for them 

These shelters can be basic structures where the dogs can be protected from the climatic conditions. A shelter also gives them a place to be, reducing their need to walk around looking for places to shelter themselves. 

Raise voice against animal cruelty

I will put my foot down when it comes to cruelty/abuse. If I come across any incidents where a dog has been abused or hurt in any way, I will make sure that I do my best to stop it immediately. I will also raise awareness about such cruelty to animals within my community.

Adopt a stray dog

 I do prefer to make a stray dog a pet rather than wasting copious of money in buying puppies and dogs. A stray dog can make a great pet. They are as loving and loyal as any other dog we see. Also remember, when we adopt a stray, we are giving a home to a helpless creature. The love we will receive in return will be unparalleled.

Helping stray dogs is something we can do that does not take too much effort from our side, but the effect that it has on the dogs is incredible. They will truly be grateful for the help we have to offer them. Once we help a stray dog in need and we see that wagging tail..it will tell us exactly how happy and thankful they are for us.

Rudransh Chouhan 
Grade 7B  

The last few decades have been monumental when it comes to technological development. We all humans have developed machines that make our lives easier. Especially from the early 16th century to as far as the late 18th century.

Ever since the industrial and scientific revolution, our mother Earth is slowly being used up for its resources. Moreover, the onset of the exponential increase in the world’s population is also very taxing on the environment. 

One of the main results of this over the many years has become climate change. Climate change is not just the rise or fall of temperature of different areas of the world ; it is also a change in the rain cycles, wind patterns, cyclone frequencies, sea levels, etcetera and Global Warming is often considered an effect of Climate change which is caused by greenhouse gases, deforestation, pollution etcetera. 

If we take a look at all these causes it proves that almost 99 percent human activities are responsible for global warming.

According to IPCC REPORT we have only 10 years left to save the world from global warming. Moreover, I feel disheartened to say that still many people are not stoping global warming by driving less , recycling more, planting a tree every month, using less hot water etcetera. Isn’t it our responsibility to stop the thing from getting damaged which we have ruined.

To save ourself from this climate crisis we will be needing a plan immediately or consequences would be extremely unfortunate and maybe it can even be the end of the world…

                                            ~Shiven Manchanda 

                                                 7th

No one is born a good citizen, no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth.
Kofi Annan

"Of the people, by the people, for the people"
Abraham Lincoln

The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.

There are so many different models of democratic government around the world that it is sometimes easier to understand the idea of democracy in terms of what it definitely is not. Democracy, then, is not autocracy or dictatorship, where one person rules; and it is not oligarchy, where a small segment of society rules. Properly understood, democracy should not even be "rule of the majority", if that means that minorities' interests are ignored completely. A democracy, at least in theory, is government on behalf of all the people, according to their "will".

Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

The right to vote is not a privilege. In the twenty-first century, the presumption in a democratic State must be in favour of inclusion.

When people experience issues that concern their very survival, they’re inclined to find immediate solutions. They’re no longer interested in the promise that elections, nor democracy, can deliver. So when help or opportunity to remedy these issues come across, they’re willing to submit they’re right to vote based on their preferences. In this sense, politicians are using the living conditions of the poor to favor them because they can be easily manipulated and persuaded by the promises that these politicians can deliver to alleviate their living conditions.

When they have access to basic needs, they’re more inclined to be educated so they can advance their living conditions to provide more than just the basic needs. This is where democracy becomes a privilege. When people do not have access to basic needs, they’re less likely to be educated to vote and make better voting decisions and have access to higher degree of education to be able to understand politics and its institutional design.

So is democracy a privilege we take for granted? Yes and no. It depends whether that privilege is even present in the first place. If it does, it is now our responsibility to continue educating ourselves to make better decisions because whoever we choose to carry out our will, affects not only our living conditions but also of everyone in a system that is becoming highly globalized. 

Samreen Kaur
Grade 7A

Global warming is the burning problem faced by people in today’s time which is rising at an alarming rate. Our atmosphere is getting hotter, more turbulent, and more unpredictable because of the “boiling and churning” effect caused by the heat-trapping greenhouse gases within the upper layers of our atmosphere. With  increase of carbon, methane, or any other greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, our local weather and global climate is further agitated, heated, and “boiled.” Burning forests also releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Other human activities release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For example, growing rice and raising livestock both produce methane.

 

Global Warming has a very harmful effect on the environment as well as the inhabitants of the planet. IN COMING FIVE DECADES , GLOBAL WARMING WILL SHOW THE WORST IMPACT ON OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS. The effects of global warmings that we are encountering right now are just the tip of the iceberg , the brutal reality will beunfolded in the coming 50 years. Our generation has started seeing the results of our atrocious deeds. It  leads to rise in the sea level , submergence of the coastal areas and melting of glaciers .  It  has negative impact on rain fall , agriculture , human and animal life.  It  leads to rise in temperature which has many ill effects on the life forms. Climate change is also visible because of this obstacle. Actually our future generation will be bearing the torture of our dreadful actions.  We are only the custodians and we must continue development that meets the need of the present , without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their needs. It is high time that we should realize that our future generation needs a planet as we did. With the advantage of Science we have unravelled the scientific causes of global warming so we should try and work hard together to make a better environment. God has blessed us with a beautiful mother nature ,azure skies , sky high mountain, magnificent brooks and other bounties of nature. Instead of depleting it with our negligence, it is high time that we should realize that ourfuture generation will be paying for our bad deeds. 

Barack Obama said, “THIS IS THE MOMENT WHEN ME MUST COME TOGETHER TO SAVE THIS PLANET. LET US RESOLVE THAT WE WILL NOT LEAVE OUR CHILDREN A WORLD WHERE THE OCEANS RISE AND FAMINE SPREADS AND TERRIBLE STORMS DEVASTATE OUR LANDS.”

 By Yashika Sehgal

   7B

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who is answerable? 

Wait a minute, one thing just clicked in my mind............ who will pay for this expanding disease? It‘s repercussion are unimaginable! Humans and animals will face dire consequences. Extreme climate changes due to deforestation will cause many plants and animal to extinction. Around 150-200 plants and animal species go extinct on average every day. Rise in sea level results flooding, areas will submerge in the water and it will become inhabitable. So, mass migration and overcrowding will happen. Harsh weather will give rise to many health problems. It will also reduce crop yields and food shortage, which will grow more poverty and inflation in the world. These reasons are enough to do a new start for our future generations? 
To overcome this, we should plant more trees, reduce our carbon foot prints, make a habit to recycle old things, buy long live goods and become climate advocate.
We should take all these calamities as a life threat to thousand of species living on this planet. To reduce the effects of global warming we have to act now, as we are running out of time.

 We’re in the endgame. To win this battle we need eco warriors, so are you all ready to contribute your bit to save our planet? 

~ Ahana Brotia  
Grade - 7B (Peregrine)

 

 

 

 

 

Sovereignty is a vital feature of Indian democracy. Sovereignty refers to the full power of a governing body over itself without outside interference. Moreover, people can exercise power in Indian democracy. Most noteworthy, people of India elect their representatives. Moreover, these representatives remain responsible for common people.

The democracy in India works on the principle of political equality. Furthermore, it essentially means all citizens are equal before the law. Most noteworthy, there is no discrimination on the basis of religion, caste, creed, race, sect, etc. Hence, every Indian citizen enjoys equal political rights.

Rule of the majority is an essential feature of Indian democracy. Moreover, the party which wins the most seats forms and runs the government. Most noteworthy, no-one can object to support of the majority.

In conclusion, the democracy in India is something very precious. Furthermore, it is a gift of the patriotic national leaders to the citizens of India. Most noteworthy, the citizens of this country must realize and appreciate the great value of democracy. The democracy in India is certainly unique in the world.

From: Divey Arora
Grade: 7B

India faces the hottest summer ever. We now face 47 degrees temperature recorded in Amritsar on 30th April last year. Let’s jump straight to the point. How much of this is natural evolution of climate and how much is due to human interference? 

Why you should be concerned about global warming. But before that let’s talk about climate change first. The overall climate of the earth is increasing. But that doesn’t mean it is going to be warmer everywhere. Now, that might lead to some confusion! 

Our sea levels are rising every year. Oceans are getting warmer and expanding. Antartica and Greenland is melting.

But do you know humans emit only a tiny fraction of Co₂ into atmosphere every year and maximum Co₂ is released through natural land and oceans. There is a great deal of imbalance between land and ocean due to human activities and temperature starts to rise when amount of Co₂ is increased in atmosphere.

As a result, we will get more intense floods, storms, droughts and risen sea levels. 

Therefore, we need to get to ZERO EMISSIONS by 2050 to save this earth. While the simple and very effective ideas of afforestation, discouraging fossil fuels and many more such initiatives will definitely yield results, its the change in philosophy of consuming that has to be emphasised.