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lacier breaking into an avalanche
in Himalaya leading to flash flood and destruction are definite signs of climate
change emergency. With global warming glaciers are receding, and will
substantially weaken to collapse into flash flood. It is similar to what is
happening in polar regions except that instead of breaking into the ocean (that
has become alarmingly regular) the high altitude glacier collapse into river. These are expected to increase in near future
as also with glacier receding the perennial source of water for major river
systems too will be depleted. India’s vulnerability to climate change needn’t be
reiterated. It is now a fact which the short sighted and amazingly imprudent
policy makers haven’t really able to lodge in their intellectually challenged
blessed mind. This tragedy was compounded by foolhardy decisions of cutting
trees and constructing hydroelectric projects (that were tossed aside by nature’s
fury) in geologically vulnerable and environmentally fragile regions. It’s easy
to get literacy but to become educated is a big deal. It needs humility and
understanding both casualties in entitled world that poses sycophantic
humbleness to power, greed and collective hallucinations that please the herd. People
living in fragile regions are aware and carry the wisdom of centuries of
connection with the nature (which is not broken by squatter sanctum’s grand estimations and appropriated flowery commands in alien language since these are fragile regions hence people are very much in touch with reality
as any lapse would kill so they don’t have time for crap. Ofcourse in recent
time these have broken with delusion of market and religion working its bigger
plans as people reduced to pawns patronized and used as the occasion demands).
This region has vibrant environmental
movements. It’s time that people raise their voice vehemently and forcefully against
these grand projects conceived in grand ivory towers of insular mind trained in
medieval notion to dominate and subjugate nature. Earth can very well survive humans.
So it is better to learn to work with forces of nature, understand that we are
only part of a system. Humans have no exclusive right nor are there any gods
waiting to save humans. It might be difficult for blessed minds to fathom but
you are not special. You can save yourself by understanding nature. Or else get
ready to face the wrath of nature. In the meantime it’s time that policy makers
start working on adaptive measures.
