Gender & Climate Justice

The importance of gender in environmental issues is because women are affected differently by environmental problems, and their role in environmental protection is also very important.

— Swadhinika Samal

climate change affects men and women differently. Women are more vulnerable, you know, they are more dependent on the natural resources, you know, they have a limited access to land, credit and technology.

— Monalisa Malla · Unit-9, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha

Gender and environment are inextricably linked. Women need to be recognized not just as an affected group, but as a key force in environmental protection, decision-making, and social ecological change.

— Gyaneswari Patra · Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha, Odisha

women play even a key role you know the in the adoption of indigenous knowledge and they have very traditional knowledge regarding medicinal plants or anything else and climate change affect the women health more than men or anyone else.

— Monalisa Malla · Unit-9, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha

I personally feel gender is not directly linked to the environment itself, rather it is the societal structure and how the environmental changes affects both the gender differently is what makes gender linked to an environment.

— suvechha sahu · Unit-9, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha

Always the environment has become necessary for women, why women themselves.

— Swadhinika Samal

And this habit of her, you know, helps me to know that it induces waste, consumes natural resources and supports sustainable living, making it highly relevant for, you know, environmental protection today.

— Monalisa Malla · Unit-9, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha

The climate change that has occurred is due to us cutting down forests, destroying forests, the prevalence of more factories, and the smoke that is emitted from them.

— Prameswar Rana

What concerns me about growing AI use are the environmental costs such as water and energy consumption, pollution in the form of water and noise pollution. The lands that are being chosen to set up the data centers often belong to/next to communities that are already marginalized and in so it can exacerbate inequality that already exists. because What excites me is the fact that AI use and easy translation allows to democratize opportunities for people across different socio-economic strata and in some way gives them an equal footing.

— Smriti Tiwari · Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka

AI is very well connected to the environment. If we put any information related to the environment in it, or take information about anything, it shows it very well to the protectors and it tells us how we can get complete information, how easily and in how less time. And about the rights of women and all these rights of women, it explains to us very well. We can know what instructions have been given to women at this time and what their rights are. So we can easily get information about rights and the environment in this. AI truly works very fast and in very less time, very perfectly, and provides information very well. For which we are very grateful to AI.

— Snappy Axolotl · Milak, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh

- Rising temperatures – Heatwaves are longer and hotter, stressing ecosystems and pushing many species toward the brink. 6. Climate‑resilient infrastructure – Build flood barriers, upgrade water management, and plan cities for higher temperatures.

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha

Forests were destroyed and factories were built, which led to an increase in air pollution.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

What concerns me about AI use is the growing environmental costs in the form of water and energy consumption as well as water and noise pollution. What excites me is the fact that it democratizes opportunities by removing language and technical barriers for people across socio-economic strata.

— Smriti Tiwari · Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka

In ancient times, trees, leaves, plants, and vines were very abundant, so we always had rain in the rainy season, cold in the winter season, and heat in the summer days. That's why we

— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR

What concerns me about growing AI use is the setup of data centers which have many environmental costs including including water and energy consumption, uh noise and water pollution. What excites me is the fact that it helps to democratize opportunities across socioeconomic strata by giving different people the skills to access opportunities by removing language barriers and technological barriers.

— Smriti Tiwari · Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka

Let's agree now. The covering around us is the environment, and it is necessary for us to keep the environment safe.

— Laxmanlal

What concerns me about AI currently is that if we are able to use it well, without destroying the environment or disadvantaging you know, people and not spoiling different existing resources, etc. But if we're able to use it well in a balanced way, is the concern. So, a lot of governance on how AI needs to be directed is required. Also, there's a tendency that of disappearing arts and craft practices because AI can do it also is a worrying thing that we don't delegate everything to AI. So, it needs careful consideration.

— Shram · Arpora, Baga, North Goa

And the cost of running these data centers and all is high, but I feel we have to look at it from a larger perspective. What is going on in the world with all these expenditures for wars, bombs, ecological damage? Are we spending less on that? If money can actually be channeled, a lot of this compute power, etc., can be put to the good of humanity. So, everything must be seen in the context of the balance of things unfolding in the world and not taken in isolation, I feel.

— Quiet Kingfisher · Arpora, Baga, North Goa

Then the environment will be good, our climate will be good, our climate will be good, our climate will be good, then the environment will be good.

— Laxmanlal

It excites me that the AI is going open certain new dimensions of professionalism and education. It concerns me that it is going to require a big amount of energy to function which might disturb the natural environment.

— Kind Wombat · Bichhia, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

individuality and its safety and exploitation of personal data and safety of a person and its his or her family uh seems very uh important and that's a big concern uh when using AI if those things are respected.

— Starry Stingray · Arpora, Baga, North Goa

AI is a system that tells us in advance things that we don't know. The AI system that has been implemented has been implemented because it takes us to an advanced mode, and it even tells us in advance things that are not known. And it's very good for our convenience. Of course, nothing is useless, AI, but for humans, it weakens the human mind. Because earlier, humans used to think and use their brains smartly, but now humans have stopped thinking because they feel that AI is there, and all our work will be done by AI. So AI is good and bad. So, AI shouldn't have that much impact on humans. And the thing is, people who are working in any area, AI...

— Silver Iguana · Uttar Mohal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

My grandmother, you know, she used her old clothes as cleaning rags, stored grains carefully to avoid waste, you know, use water sparingly in daily activities.

— Monalisa Malla · Unit-9, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, Khordha

I think I'm excited and also concerned about different aspects of AI. One of my biggest concerns at the moment is the application of AI in animal language processing. Data that is used in these LLM represents a complex sentient being, yet for the tool, it is reduced to data points. I am concerned that this reduces the complexity of those worlds that we are attempting to understand. Sentient populations are being extracted from and therefore are not currently represented as the complex, social populations that they are.

— Kate Armstrong · Galungan, Sawan, Unknown

Initially, rain used to come at a good time. Now the rain is gradually decreasing. When rain was needed, it wasn't coming. Now it's doing the same thing. Earlier, it used to rain on time.

— Prakash ch Pradhani · Karubai, Rayagada, Odisha

AI is making our daily tasks quite easy, but it also poses a threat of many types of jobs being lost in the future. Although work will become easier. Even now, if we need any information, we can immediately find out from AI, and AI immediately provides information about it. But still, in the future, AI will not be able to eliminate technical jobs, but to a great extent, information related to data, people who used to do computer-related jobs, AI is definitely a threat to their jobs. Everyone should have knowledge of AI, and it's a good thing to have information about how to use AI.

— Earnest Badger · Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh

So I think AI is going to become part of our life. I remember some 10-15 years back when Android phone was there, only limited people were using the Android phone. Everybody had a feature phone. People used to ask, you don't have the Android phone. Then how people were shifted from feature phone to Android phone. Now even I was just taking an example of my father, he's also started using Android phone, without that he can't survive now. That much he's attached to that. Similarly, AI is going to be used in a different way. For me also, nowadays for each and every work, I am using some or other sort of AI. But at the same time, I'm really bothered about the data. Whatever I am sharing, does it go to the general warehouse where anybody can access? That is only my worry.

— Anonymous · Attur Layout, Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban

What really excites me is how we can learn about new things quickly. Uh, there are no barriers anymore for learning all new things, definitely helping in the work that I do. But uh at the same time the concern is that we'll stop thinking for ourselves and our confidence in our thinking will come down. Um, I think that we'll figure out uh the questions around water, electricity, data centers, all of that. That is the best part of learning from the um doing. And uh I think if we don't worry too much about those things, that might be fine.

— Indigo Ferret · Indiranagar 2nd Stage, Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban

I am concerned about I am not concerned about the AI because AI is what the humans were were always in need of. AI can do the money money of the workers within few seconds. As one of the growing technology in the modern era, I am I am I am also concerned about it is misuses as it has been previously in last lot of some months, I have seen many videos that are and also AI has been used as the generous role for many other many other many other scams. As the data on the AI is not does not have any privacy. So with the advantages with with AI with AI having many advantages, it has many disadvantages also.

— Jolly Narwhal · Poterwal, Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir

It is about AI. As we know, AI is called Artificial Intelligence, and today, many people worldwide are interested in learning about AI, and a lot of work has already been done. As AI is making our daily activities easier, and we need to learn more about it. And somewhere it feels that if we learn AI in a better way, then our daily activities will be easier. will fall into. But I believe that if our skills improve, then AI is only beneficial for us. Yes, there are some disadvantages in everything, but it depends on us humans how we can use it for our own benefit.

— Earnest Axolotl · Utai, Durg, Chhattisgarh

Climate justice means that rural India has access to clean drinking water.

— Samira Agnihotri

Five tech giants are funneling $7.6 trillion into AI by 2030. All building the same thing. Same models, same data, same race to own the same market. That money could end extreme poverty. Several times over. Data centers will consume triple the electricity of entire developing nations this decade. The intelligence they produce is Western by design, blind to tropical medicine, regional monsoons, a billion lived realities. The public pays. In water. In carbon. In data taken without consent. Market logic guarantees this continues. Competition rewards speed and secrecy, not safety. We've broken this before. CERN. The Human Genome Project. The Montreal Protocol. Rivals set aside ownership and governed something together. AGI needs that. A non-commercial, international cooperative. Not utopian, just the only arrangement that doesn't end badly. For a fraction of what's spent on duplication, we could build it. Five competing fire extinguishers while the house burns. That's the alternative.

— Noble Marmot · Kalmadi, Adi Udupi, Udupi

It is less AI itself that concerns me, but rather the people who currently control the major AI companies and their general lack of responsibility towards the rest of the world and the rest of humanity and the rest of living and non-living beings on Earth. If we were to take the general capitalistic, self-centered, um, attitude of these people and exchange it for people who were more community-minded, I don't believe that the AI itself would be a problem. All of the questions of deep fakes and and all of these other other questions of, you know, the use of energy, all of these things are are fixable as a culture as a society, all of the concerns that we have around AI. Um, including people's trust in what is essentially a collection of the minds and and ideas of a certain subsector of society, which is those people who are online and who are, um, whose words and thoughts have been input into the into the internet.

— Mischievous Crane · Haie-Vive-Cocotiers, Cotonou, Unknown

Artificial intelligence and technology are powerful tools with the potential to transform society for the better. They offer incredible benefits, efficiency, and accessibility. But they also bring significant challenges, including ethical concerns and the risk of job displacement. Technology and AI are massive topics that can be broken down into several key areas. The positive is increased efficiency. AI can process massive amounts of data in seconds, which is highly beneficial for fields like medical research, logistics, and climate modeling. Accessibility: new tools are helping to democratize information, allowing people to learn and access resources that were once difficult to find. Automatic, routine, and repetitive tasks can be handled by all grown.

— Roaming Egret · Jaitpur, Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh

In Artificial Intelligence, we worked in two districts. Through this Artificial Intelligence, we have closely observed how English is spoken in different regions, their pronunciation, their reading style, their speed, how they are speaking, and what are the language barriers they face. I am doing that in three stages.

— Gentle Axolotl · Thirmalapur, Jayashankar Bhupalapally, Telangana

AI has amplified my talents, increased my productivity and I can aim higher. Access to high-quality knowledge is not a barrier anymore. I am concerned that people will blindly start trusting AI from their initial experiences and will become vulnerable to manipulation. The cognitive abilities in some people might go down. AI has a reduced capability to detect misinformation because it does not reject any of the training data. It is limited in its use of non-verbal senses and so its world-view is limited and inherently cannot be fully trusted.

— Mithun Sheshagiri · Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka