Attempts by the central government to cast youth-led climate organizations, or their members, as a threat to national security defies sanity. These organizations have been raising issues regarding the climate and other environmental crises, which in fact constitute the gravest threat to the security of the people of this country. ...
The government has weakened environmental protection by diluting Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) measures, potentially damaging carbon sinks, the forests on which millions depend. To support forest-dependent and agrarian communities in their struggles is simply an extension of the movements for environmental justice. Youth-led movements have campaigned against dilutions of the EIA, have spoken out against the destruction of ecosystems, and the expansion of coal use. This is the context in which they are now being targeted.
Our young activists have stood up for issues that will affect millions of today’s youth in the decades to come. They must be celebrated for the courage of their convictions and for speaking truth to power, not persecuted, intimidated, and criminalized. - statement by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the youth for believing in the system and questioning it when it does not respond properly. Addressing his last 'Mann ki Baat' of 2019, the prime minister said the youth hate anarchy and disorder and dislike casteism and nepotism. "Our youth believe in the system and have an opinion, and question when system does not respond properly. I consider this to be a good thing. "Our youth hate anarchy, instability and disorder and dislike casteism and nepotism. Young India will play a key role in building modern India in the coming decade," PM Modi said on Mann ki Baat.
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From Davos to Disha Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Feb 2
Young people who have been clued into these discussions are worried for farmers as they are for their own futures, especially in a climate change scenario. Which is why they are stepping out of the comfort zones of their homes and career pursuits, and choosing to question governments. To vilify them, and then proceed to charge them with sedition, all because they shared documents on internet and participated in zoom calls about mobilising public opinion, and then link that to disturbances on Republic Day, is the kind of argument that betrays a lack of rationale. It is perverse also that colonial era provisions, such as Section 124A of the IPC, are employed with abuse of police power. https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/from-davos-to-disha/articleshow/81132424.cms
It also renders hollow the empty slogans of "youth power", it shows that all you want is to have the young impressionable minds to be "yes-men", none thinking "Kshtriyas" fed on stories of imagined victimhood... because it will be only then that you can get them to knock brutally on doors, and donations... https://www.newsclick.in/Why-Manner-Ram-Temple-Donation-Drive-Worrisome