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Nature’s Backlash
When Nature Strikes Back to Restore Balance
In the last two months, our country has witnessed a shocking rise in natural calamities.
Floods, landslides, cloud burst, and heavy rain falls have become regular headlines in newspapers, news channels and social media.
One cannot help but feeling immensely disturbed by this. It feels as if nature has pressed the “reset button,” forcing humans to pause, introspect, and reassess the way we are living.
We proudly call ourselves the most intelligent species on Earth, but in our race for development, we have ignored the caution of nature and caused immense damage to it.
Forests are disappearing, rivers are polluted, glaciers are melting, and cities are suffocating under smog.
The ecological balance that has sustained life for years is now collapsing.
We have exploited nature ruthlessly. Is it any surprise then that nature strikes back with such fury?
Whenever a flood drowns hundreds of villages, whenever a cloud burst uproots homes, whenever an earthquake claims lives — it’s the people who suffer, especially the poor. Thousands of lives are lost, and properties worth crores are turned into rubble.
