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12 We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. If you don’t believe Al Gore, who do you believe? Al Gore shares the US$1.5M Peace Prize with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) composed of 2,500 scientists from 130 countries. All glories can be shared only if all share in the work. IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri says Al Gore is a worthy co-winner. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says he is happy about the UN award. ‘Thanks to the IPCC’s lucid and well-documented findings,’ he says, ‘it is now established beyond doubt that climate change is happening, and that much of it is caused by human activity’ (latimes.com). The Economist (economist.com) puts it well on how the co-winners fit together in a common endeavor: ‘The IPCC has put together scientific knowledge on the subject in a form comprehensible to policymakers; Gore has pushed the policymakers to take action.’ Al Gore won the award for being ‘probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted’ to mitigate global warming (Eric Pooley, time.com). ABC Australia summarizes beautifully the basis for the decision of the Nobel Committee to award the prize jointly to Al Gore and the IPCC in these words, ‘for their efforts (in laying) the foundations for fighting global warming’ (abc.net.au). A media release by the Nobel Committee says: By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control. Al Gore won the award for being ‘probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted’ to mitigate global warming (Eric Pooley, time.com). Note that the Nobel Committee mentions about ‘laying the foundations for fighting global warming.’ It is not enough that Al Gore and the IPCC follow such a role in their own capacities; it is necessary that the rest of us build on such foundations – whether a Nobel Prize is waiting for us or not. ‘India celebrates Pachauri’s Nobel win,’ says Nandini Lakshman (businessweek.com). ‘The Peace Prize, shared with Al Gore, gives the UN’s IPCC Chair more leverage in his quest for Indian environmental policy change.’ He is running after members of the Indian Establishment running against policy changes to protect their interests. Pachauri is the Director General of New Delhi’s The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), known for its outstanding The Color Yellow
13 business model that provides technical and policy assistances to government and consulting services to corporations and is self-sustaining, ‘the only one of its kind in India.’ TERI is running after energy wasters and waste producers. India! You have just pointed me to another award-winning runner, perhaps not in the stature of the US’ Al Gore or your IPCC, but nevertheless is world-class in many ways. India, you are home to Team ICRISAT, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the only one of its kind in the world, winner of several international awards too as I have written, including being rated ‘Outstanding’ by the World Bank among 15 centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) (americanchronicle.com). India is its home base; like Al Gore’s the world is its running ground. To paraphrase Al Gore’s quote of an African proverb: ‘If you want to run quickly, run alone. If you want to run far, run together.’ We run. Team Spirit, Team ICRISAT. The Captain and his Team have been running against the poverty of agricultural policies, sectors and systems in Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America in relation to disadvantaged cultivators growing pigeonpea, chickpea, pearl millet, peanut and sweet sorghum, 5 crops they are mandated to breed better for poor farmers in poor soils: dry, waterlogged, infertile, or too costly to irrigate. What has the Captain of Team ICRISAT, William Dar, been doing in the global run of ideas and information on the issues of poverty of lands and people and the danger of global warming for me to call him the ‘Al Gore of Science’ in one place (americanchronicle.com) and ‘Discovery Manager’ in another site (globalnation.inquirer.net)? Dar is the one who has been running Team ICRISAT into projects that directly impact needy peoples in the semi-arid tropics. For instance, in each of their mandate countries, they have been trying to convince the private sector to partner with scientists and government in running a biofuel industry with small farmers as active partners and direct beneficiaries. Proof of concept is the Rusni Distillery in Andhra Pradesh, India, now producing ethanol from sweet sorghum in commercial scale. Similar proposals have started running in the Philippines. Run, ICRISAT, run! The Color Yellow
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66 Now, I’m asking you to transla
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82 A global crop - Sweet sorghum us
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86 17. ‘SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
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94 19. THE CHILDREN OF MAIDANEK. OR
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96 The old world is dying, and we a
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114 22. WHAT’S IN A NAME? IGNRM.
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116 IGNRM … is a powerful integra
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118 Juliet is asking Romeo to chang
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