Floods & Fury

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 08:18:18 +0000

Over the past week, two of the most beautiful parts of our diverse country have faced devastating floods: Kerala on the southern coast and Uttarakhand in the northern hills. Lives have been lost in both disasters that cannot be delinked from environmental degradation, caused by unbridled construction and the specter of climate change that now threatens the entire world. Both Kerala and Uttarakhand had excessive torrential rains for this season. Both are also tourist hubs where resorts and private homes have been constructed without factoring in the impact on the environment and how such construction leads to landslides witnessed in both places.