With ever increasing effects of global warming, green house effect, sea pollution, plastic wastes, eco-damage etc. some parts of the world are becoming like hell. The people are left in a situation without possible escape. What does it mean to be born in such a world there you have very limited choices?
With ever increasing effects of global warming, green house effect, sea pollution, plastic wastes, eco-damage etc. some parts of the world are becoming like hell. The people are left in a situation without possible escape. What does it mean to be born in such a world there you have very limited choices?
This is the time for floods. Every year during rainy seasons 2% of the world’s population is affected by floods. They don’t die, but lose homes & their livelihood. There is 20% chance that you are going to be fully flooded this year if you are living within 50 km radius of a nearby river.
Common sense tells that we can escape from floods and live happily if we chose to stay in higher levels of planes during four months of rainy seasons. Thus there is 66% chances of surviving from floods every year. If only we chose to or arrange to stay away from lower planes during those four months of rainy reason, this goes upto atleast 99% survival rate without others’ help.
We should note that the floods are ever increasing every year and hundreds of millions of people are becoming poorer when they were already poor because of the floods. Though our mind naturally turns to know more about the causes of floods during flooding times only, nobody really cares for who loses in floods.
The problem is we all make choices. Many times out of desperation. With growing economy, people find that the land has become costly at all places. Some people end up renting or buying homes in places which are riskier during rainy seasons. They do not do this out of their choice. But in the end every one is in a race. It feels to sad to think of their misfortune when all of their property and family gets washed away in a matter of hours when the testing days come.
Nothing could have been worser than the modern times. Our quest for electric power and to use it for all daily work without trying to work efficiently has been putting many desperate people at risk. The greatest danger for people facing floods is not directly because of rains but because of a lack of proper control of water reservoirs and dams.
On one hand the people that get affected are the ones in cities far away from the dams when the water is not reserved and utilized for efficient power production by these dams. On the other hand, people that get affected are the unfortunate and desperate people who settle with what they get to live in villages and towns close to these dams. When the floods day arrives everyone loses. But the people that lose most are the desperate and the poor. Because they couldn’t prepare.
They just can’t prepare when they are living close to hell. Only way is to leave their homes, assets, property whatever worth that might be and start chasing the city life once again. Their choices are limited.
Sometimes we think that these people can change their lives if they are smart and work hard. That is not correct. They are left in a situation or worse still, born in a situation with limited choices and capabilities. They are handicapped even before they can learn to make a lift-off on their own.
The fate of such people is not in their hands any more. They are pawns used by the politicians for getting votes but they are not helped when they needed help most. All that is needed from them is to control the water storage in dams with most alert during rainy seasons. The opposition parties too start blaming for lack of proactive preparation for emergencies. But when they can think out of their box why can’t they give suggestions to administration?
This is a reality we all live. And as the eastern countries like South India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, etc. drown, flood, quake, landslide and erupt, every now and then, we can only wonder what it means to be born in a world with limited choices.
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