Jim Jarvie on How Humanitarian Groups Are Responding to Climate Change

"We recognize that in dealing with climate change, what we do is modest....But unless we get the message out and find partners who can really take it to large scale, our efforts aren't futile, but they're of little value over the next 30 to 50 years, which is indeed the time frame we ought to be thinking on," says Jim Jarvie in this short expert analysis from the Environmental Change and Security Program. Jarvie, director of climate change, environment, and natural resources at Mercy Corps, discusses why humanitarian development organizations must respond to new climate challenges.

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• climate change
• development
• environment
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• Jim Jarvie
• ECSP
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Global warning is a planetary issue worsen by western life style that is dictate by corporate, banking and insurance institutions...the "prosperity through wealth accumulation" school of thought is the real cause of pollution, exploitation and wars. If we plan to tackle GW then humanitarians could start re-educate the West the meaning of ethical and moral issues that is found in "poor" people whom up to now lived in harmony with nature.