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News India Live, Digital Desk: The calm and beautiful litigants of the Himalayas are no longer the same. Climate change has changed the mood of the weather here that now disasters are not alone, but have started coming into the flock. Experts are calling it a new and extremely dangerous trend, which is a new and extremely dangerous trend.
Think, somewhere clouds burst, suddenly flash flood comes. This flood brings a large amount of debris and stone with it, which starts landslide. Then this debris stops the path of a river, causing a temporary lake and when this lake breaks, the water catastrophe comes in the villages below. This is not just a imagination, but the bitter reality of many areas of the Himalayas is becoming.
Why is this herd of disasters becoming?
The biggest hand behind this dangerous sequence is climate change. The temperature of the Himalayas is growing much faster than the rest of the world. It is having many effects:
- Glacier and unstable slope: The glaciers have been melting rapidly due to rising temperature, the snow that had been tied to the mountains for centuries, is now weakening. Due to this, the risk of rocks and soil slipping has increased manifold.
- Changing pattern of rain: Now in a short time, there is a lot of rain and heavy rain. Such rain falls on the delicate hills, so everything takes away with it.
- Human interference: In addition, unplanned construction of roads, dams and hotels has made the mountains even more hollow and weak.
What happens when many disasters come together?
When one disaster gives rise to another disaster, it is also called “Cascading Disaster”. In recent years, there have been many such incidents in the Himalayan regions. A small start in these incidents can cause heavy havoc in very large areas. An incident in the above mountains also affects the lives of people settled in the plains below.
What is the way forward?
Experts believe that we have to change the attitude of seeing the Himalayas. Now only by dealing with floods or landslides separately, it will not work. We have to understand that all these disasters are connected to each other. The need is to create such schemes which should be prepared keeping in mind the danger of this ‘multi-scorch disaster’. In this, it is very important to carry the traditional knowledge of the local people along and to tighten any kind of construction work on the test of environmental rules.
The Himalayas are warning us. If we ignored this warning, then it may have to pay a very heavy price.