Commercial ports on the fragile coastline at the cost of the environment is causing livelihoods to disappear overnight. @NFF_India2017@moefcc@CPIMKerala there is no political will to face the challenges thrown by environmental destruction leave alone man-made Climate Change!
Studies have shown that structures built on wetlands, choked canals, and improper constructions causing siltation in backwaters stem the natural flow of water, leading to flood-like situations in Kochi. Story by @Supriya_Vohra#IndiaWaterStory#Kerala https://t.co/dk1qjrYlbF
Rain has hit them hard. Most of the residents in Bellandur slum are stranded with no access to food, water or electricity, drenched in dirty water. Some had been spending day and night propped up against the garbage piled up. @kavashivani's ground report.
https://t.co/AOjEtySomb
@moefcc : We recently raised the issues of "missing" Meeting minutes and agenda for upcoming meetings of NCZMA. However, as per news reports, the CZMP - 2019 for Karnataka and Goa have been finalized. #LackofTransparency inspite of recent CAG reports highlighting the same #crz
The only appropriate response to the climate catastrophe in Pakistan is to unconditionally cancel the country's external debts. These resources should be used to support people and ecosystems rather than to service foreign capital. It is a minimal first step toward reparations.
The media are complicit in the destruction of our climate They have ignored the issue for decades and given equal billing to deniers
They still talk about climate change in one breath and in next are aghast at even the thought of lower economic growth that would slow warming
#ElephantGraveyardOfisha Another elephant killed (most likely by electrocution by poachers) in Mahabirod Range Dhenkanal The massacre continues since 2 elephants had been electrocuted 2 days ago at Keonjhar Is @ForestDeptt waiting for extinction to solve the problem ?
The impact of not applying precautionary principle where necessary : Excessive infrastructure projects in the ecologically sensitive areas around the Himalayas has caused #Uttrakhand to suffer yet again. Is this the new normal? Why isn’t this https://t.co/FAhHqyDDxe everyday?
रात भर तड़पती रही नदी..
माँ के इलाज़ के लिए 108 एंबुलेंस बन गये?
सरकार चिपकी रही बुलडोजर से..
सड़कों के जालें अब मौत के रास्ते बन गये..
चारों ओर हाहा कार..
विकास की दौड़. साँप सीडी का खेल बन बैठी..
#Maldevta#Dehradun#Uttarakhandrains
Drought in the Horn of Africa is the driest conditions & hottest temperatures since satellite record-keeping began.
Impacting 13 million people currently, women & children walk about 14 km looking for water & animals are dying in hundreds of thousands. This is a climate crisis!
There is a curious phenomenon that results from the relatively brief window of time a single human lifetime provides: we perceive the current state of the natural world as “normal”.
This is known as the Shifting Baseline Syndrome. 🧵
If you demand action to save life on Earth
you are called a freak, a radical, an extremist, a fanatic, but if you demand more drilling, deforestation, mining and unsustainable economic growth that will transform our Earth into a dead planet you are called a respectable moderate