Climate Change And Disaster Management In India
Climate is the average of the weather events of a place over a long period of time. Climate changes are constantly occurring at the local, regional and global levels. But in the blind race of rapid industrialization and urbanization, man started making rapid changes in atmospheric processes. It was natural to have an impact on the basic structure of nature, which created a situation of catastrophe like climate change. This threat of climate change has inspired various types of natural disasters. The foundation of the threat of climate change was laid by Western countries at the same time when the Industrial Revolution started. The developed countries of the West exploited coal, petroleum and natural gases in such a large amount during the early period of their development that the temperature of the earth started increasing rapidly. Right now the average temperature of the Earth is about 15 ° C, according to environmentalists it is increasing gradually. The materialistic and consumerist activities of humans have led to excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the earth's environment, which affected the activities of weather activities, ocean winds and monsoon winds. As a result, natural disasters like floods, droughts are increasing continuously on the earth. Due to the increasing natural calamities on the earth, human life has become at risk.The threat of natural disasters caused by climate change can be seen continuously on a global scale, the latest example being the water crisis in Cape Town, where water supply has been stopped due to low rainfall. In India also the horror of natural disasters can be seen in incidents like Kedarnath tragedy.
Apart from this, from the floods of Chennai and Bihar, their regularity of monsoon has also remained a matter of concern.Natural disasters always keep coming in one or the other area of the earth. But the disasters coming in the present era are becoming more terrible and intense in their nature, mainly due to climate change.Due to natural disasters caused by climate change, humans may have to face crisis at all three levels, water, air and soil. Due to excessive rain and drought, the health of the soil will be adversely affected, due to which the human race may have to face the food crisis in the coming time.It is clear that climate change is a problem created by mankind, as a result of which man has to face the disasters given by nature.The increasing intensity and frequency of natural disasters has posed an existential crisis to mankind. Therefore, there is a need to conserve nature, so that the future of mankind can be saved
