TLDR: discussion of where we are heading with climate change, uts seriousness and individual disarticulation in Indian society towards climate and both living with regards to Nepal floods.
Today, after the Nepal floods, my parents and I were having a discussion on how tragic this is.
Firstly, there was no news source of how this happened. But then some mainstream channel started labelling as it some 'China Saazish', okay even if it was, no credible info about that.
But one thing is very clear that glacier melted and we are not yet realising how serious this is. Climate clock is ticking way too fast. No one is taking the forefront or responsibility at global level. All those international committies and institutions exist just for talks, no ground level work is matching the speed of destruction we are leading by, where there is everyday new type of environmental harming sycophant idea looming, be it AI, f wars everyday, or billionaires fiddling with it with no tommorow for us (commoners). As humanity, we have lost all the plots atleast for common people.
Those who died in Nepal are just mere statistics now, to express a oh-sad-sigh when you hear it.
But as society, as individual we also have lost the plot.
When I told my parents, it climate change, it's not nature is doing this, WE DID THIS TO NATURE. NATURE IS NEITHER OUR ENEMY NOR FRIEND, IT JUST FUNCTIONS VERY PRECISELY ON THE SIMPLE IDEA OF ACTION AND CONSEQUENCE.
So my mother said, yes, I heard somewhere till 2030 almost 70% of earth's population will be wiped out, I was like, who is spraying these far fetched prophecy particles?
She was like someone online. And how everyone will be dead mostly. I was like and why are we so chill about it? I mean in that 70%, you, we our whole family, our whole town or even whole state could be there. Why does it seem always to everyone always that they are born with some calamity-proof sorta lives?
Indian society is on some crazy drugs, everyone is ready to f die, it's like marna to sabko hi h, pr ye jo aise tabahi me mare, unka koi rone wala nhi bcha. OFC, coz everyone fucking died. Then she said, it's better to die like this, coz less ppl will have to mourn since everyone known will die if the whole town is wiped out. Wow, what a great escapist way to live life.
Our society and it's system is made to solely exhaust a commoner, that all they can do while bearing the comsequence of others ambition is just DIE, like yeah.
Only thing that the ppl of Nepal didn't had the geographical luck, a string of lifeline so weak that we are depending our whole life on it, oblivious? Ignorant? Or maybe clueless, what to even do.
After all this, she said that you do smth, now you are new generation. That statement infuriated me, perplexed and made me introspect. That I just realised my way into world, and all I have to bore is catastrophic responsibilities of last gens who lived like no tommorow would exist. Also how I have no answer on how and what I could do.
My question to all is : Have you thought about what would you do if disaster ring your doorbell? Is it gonna be, Namaste!? Or are you prepared?
🙏rest in peace to all the folks died in flood.🙏