As far as the environment is concerned, we are just living in a world of fools. Fools, severely exploiting nature beyond its threshold limits. Fools, those have reached a state of waking up a sleeping volcano due to their own mistakes, made intentionally, knowingly, and selfishly. Finally, we are on the verge of crossing a stage where warnings happen well within time, proactive actions are taken in a well-planned manner, and disasters are averted smartly. Now, we are living on a ground well laid with underground bombs. Bombs, that trigger the moment we put our foot on it. We are not aware of how many bombs are there. We don't know how many are there. And we don't know what will be the severity of the next disaster we have invited because of our own selfish motives. That reminds me of an interesting story that goes like this.
There was a cruel man in a locality who would keep slapping and beating small children just for fun. Children would feel themselves helpless to stop this. Every day one, many, or all of them would get beaten up by this cruel man without any fault of theirs. One fine day a strange thing happened. The man woke up and moved his hand heavily over the face of the nearest kid. Nothing happened. Shockingly, he found his both the hands missing. That is what is happening to us around the globe in the shape of one or the other disaster. Now, the question comes, could the recent disaster in Uttarakhand be averted. It might have been if all humankind had stopped playing with the nature a long time ago. We are still acting foolish and repeating the same mistakes. Does it make a sense to stop now? Yes.
At least, things will stop deteriorating further.
A glacial lake burst, a cloud burst or an avalanche, the impact of climate change or “development” — scientists are not sure what triggered the sudden surge of water near Chamoli in Uttarakhand Sunday morning that briefly raised fears of a repeat of the 2013 disaster in the state.
