Pandemic and climate change

 

Pandemic and climate change

Different new variants of Covid-19 are raging through different parts of the world and people fear that a third wave of the virus may happen in India. The pandemic which began by the end of 2019, has by now killed millions of people around the globe, and it is not over yet. 

(Covid-19 cases are way too high in our state of Kerala also now.)

The next big problem for now is climate change ! 

Climate change has led to bad consequences to the world now with varied weather patterns. 

This year, extreme temperatures and heatwaves were experienced unexpectedly in cold places like Canada, and Europe and left the mercury soaring to levels as high as experienced in places recording the highest temperature on this planet.

This has inturn had a bad impact on the environment too - mass death of marine creatures, destruction of flora and fauna, and also resulting in wildfires which have ravaged several towns and hectares of farmlands in the USA and Canada. 

Wildfires in Europe - especially in Turkey and Greece have burnt down swathes of land and plenty of villages, and have left many homeless. Flames had engulfed forests, farm lands, and villages in Turkey and Greece leaving hundreds shattered.

Also, due to the enormous heat, the rate of evaporation is higher, and as warm air can hold more moisture, the precipitation is also intense, resulting in heavy flooding and hail storms. 

China and many places in Europe (Germany, Belgium, Austria), and some states in India (Maharashtra, north Karnataka) etc had to bear the fury of the deluge with roads turning into torrents and sweeping away everything in the area. Houses were collapsing like pack of cards by the surge of the waters and cars were being swept away like soap boxes. Flooding and destruction at such a high scale was never seen in recent times.

 

(My earlier thoughts on environment, and ecological balance and how human activities impact nature is available in: http://rosesofsicily.blogspot.in/2016/03/if-bee-gets-extinct-man-will-live-for.html)

 

Our planet is now highly polluted. Over-population, urbanisation, constructions, pollution, encroachment of forest land, toxic emissions, radiations, usage of plastics, etc have all destroyed nature to a vast extent and impacted the ecological balance and have resulted in great impact to other species. 

Man's atrocities and crimes are on the high too.

 

With the pandemic, fire and water... It seems a mass cleansing is happening on the planet. 

 

Are these the early signs of the apocalyptic end ??

 

https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/lessons-learnt-from-turkeys-forest-fires

https://youtu.be/_1y_dKyMMeA

 

-        Suveen Jacob Abraham.

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