Making sense of the incessant spate of disasters in the Himalayan state. Uttarakhand as a naturally disaster prone state made worse by reckless human activities. Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand On good days Uttarakhand is in the news for high-profile visitors thronging the state seeking spiritual rejuvenation. Political faces like PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi, and many others have walked up its winding, paved paths leading up to its famed Kedarnath temple. On bad days, the state is buried under landslides or submerged under floodwaters. On such days, the same high-profile visitors are back in the state on choppers, aerially surveying the extent of the damage. Life in Uttarakhand looks like a seamless dance between profound spiritual existence and climatic tragedies of epic propor...
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We might not just be aware of it yet but a high rate of health risks are linked to climate change directly or indirectly. Regardless of your socioeconomic status, the danger to your health caused by climate change has the tendency to reach you in many ways. Global warming, bushfires, the rise of pollution, and heat waves are some of the major consequences caused by climate change. And these are going to impact not just our health but our children’s health and the generations coming after. As per a report published by Global Climate Index 2021, India was the seventh most affected country by climate change. We witnessed both extreme heat and extreme rainfall in the past few years which has affected the livelihoods and health of many people across the country. According to experts of Climat...
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