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Asia’s water reservoir drying up
August 7, 2007 |
“South Asia is struggling to deal with the worst monsoon flooding in living memory but as mountain glaciers up north slowly vanish, drought in the future promises an even greater misery.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng travelled to the Tibetan plateau to witness first-hand the impact of climate change on an area known as the “roof of the world”.
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| Nomadic herders sense the drastic change that is taking place |
The northern Himalayas, with crystal clear skies, is one of the cleanest and least polluted places on earth.
And for the nomadic herders who roam the mountains and valleys, little has changed, their lives packed up on the backs of their nimble footed yaks.
But they have noticed one big change in all the years they’ve been walking these paths.
This was just a stream, said a young herder, but has now become a fast-running river, swelling with glacier run-offs.”
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Global warming is leaving its impact everywhere. Even in Delhi we can see the change in climate. Winter season is becoming shorter and shorter and Summers are unending.
We are almost in for it, aunty.
Sometimes I really question the whole bit about man being the “best of creation”, we’re destroying the world at an exponential rate.
Ashi, the world (planet earth) has existed even before us and will continue to be there long after we’re gone. So, we’re not really destroying the world, but our civilization.
Ashi
Except for a few, people are concerned about it, arnt’t they? Most of them do not even know the extent problems can reach. Probably that’s why they’re not disturbed.
Good point, Amit. :)
Well I didn’t meant that we will literally destroy the earth itself. But we are doing irreparable damage to basically every single component of the ecosystem. Apparently nowadays we aren’t even leaving the Arctic alone!