Vagaries of climate affecting nations are not a new phenomenon. Ever since man started ecological plunder, climate cycles turned topsy-turvy. El-nino and La-nino are only two technological terms coined by meteorologists and scientists, nothing more than that. The coming years are sure to bring about unimaginable consequences affecting nations irrespective of their geographical locations. We are witnessing on a large-scale these days worst disasters affecting certain countries. Even after experiencing worst calamities by each nation no one seems to be learning good lessons to come out of the abyss each has fallen into. The developed nations care not the plight of those ones which in the absence of support in the form of funds, innovative technologies by the former cannot afford to escape the dire consequences of natural disasters. The developed ones themselves do not seem to have the generosity and political will to rescue themselves for instance, the most developed nation, the super power America had to suffer hurricanes like Katrina which brought about calamities of the worst kind losing human lives, roads, bridges and communication lines for months together. Did America learn much from such a calamity? No is the answer despite the political will of certain rulers, the anti-climate change lobbyists, most of them industrial and business barons concentrate on accumulating the maximum even while the nation is on the verge of sinking into the depths. A disaster management of sorts is absent everywhere, nations mull such things when they are affected the worst soon it comes to a lull, easily forget such things. Otherwise decisions taken on the spur of the moment. If things are allowed to go on such lines we can very well assume the enormity of problems waiting in the wings. Droughts and other such calamities will be common phenomenon spreading across nations. Similarly disasters other than manmade disasters, like earthquakes which are likely to affect any nation causing millions of casualties.
The new threat staring in the face of each nation is massive floods, each day we learn from visual and print media, floods spreading to vast areas, its levels rising to gigantic proportions damaging properties to the tune of billions of dollars, houses, roads, bridges, telecommunication lines all sinking killing countless numbers of human beings irrespective of rich and poor alike displacing lakhs waiting to be rehabilitated. Brazil, a fast developing nation is undergoing such a calamity wiping out vast progress made in various fields and Brazilian ruler Dilma Roussuff works on a war footing to minimize the damage due to the calamity which the country is experiencing after a lapse of four decades.
Australia’s third largest city Brisbane too is caught in the quagmire of floods there too properties worth $2 bn have gone down the drains, buildings, houses, roads, rail, telecommunication lines etal have come under rising water. The human casualties as in Brazil are yet to be calculated both dead and survivors. In Brazil as per the reports pouring in 500 are feared to have died who have already been fished out several are to be found out as also survivors if any. Both these nations will have to wait for months to bring the situation to normality that too after the disaster is over. But no signs yet of increasing water levels subsiding.
Our neighbouring nations Sri Lanka and China too were recently caught in the grip of floods and there too vast destruction of properties and lives took place even our own India apprehends such an eventuality as the calamity could strike anywhere across the world. Many manmade disasters and some beyond his power.
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