We need to enhance our responsibility and responsiveness towards climate cure and healing; we must investment in climate-pro solutions

The climate situation in the 21st century is turning more fragile than ever before. Coined in the 1970s, the term Adam Tooze, today proved every meaning of itself. The root cause of the Polycrisis is the anthropogenic reasons in the greater proportion; with some natural causes, which no one of us could ever deny. Unfortunately, man has increased his greed to such a level beyond that, today multiple crises have been created altogether due to the changing climatic conditions.

The most recent Glacier Lake outburst flood tragedy and outflow of South Lhonak Lake water towards Teesta Bank had created flood havoc for vast areas of Sikkim, is an alarm for the whole of mankind that we are crossing our limits of exploitation. Today river based flooding is becoming very common in three major Indian states such as Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and now Sikkim. So many people are missing there, tourists got stuck due to an unprecedented avalanche, and flood water took away the entire Chungthang Dam with it. After the Tapovan Hydel Power Project of Uttarakhand, this will be another big dam from the Himalayan region to be affected. Repeated incidences of Cloud bursting, Land subsidence and sinking, cracks development and landslides have been reported. This would be the recent proportion of the entire Polycrisis story.

Let's focus on the other perspective too, most of us are living in a scenario of poor air quality. The quality of the air we breathe sometimes switches to a very poor or severe category depending upon the extent of air pollution in our surrounding areas. Developed and developing countries are rushing towards making deadlines to accomplish Net Zero. Regrettably, we are only extending the deadlines on paper, and no real improvement is made from a larger perspective. Net zero emission, carbon neutrality, Carbon accounting, and carbon sink creation are only the tall talk by leaders today for meeting their climate change-related obligations. But the point of consideration is that we are not taking any concrete action for a larger cause.

Look at the condition of South America's largest Freshwater Lake Titicaca, it is dying up today. The indigenous communities living alongside are facing extreme drought conditions there, which is making their survival difficult. Coming back to the Asian continent once again, the shrinking Aral Sea also presents a concerning story for all of us. Disappearing and shrinking water bodies and lakes are a common story for most countries across the whole world. Just a few days back, Nepal faced earthquake shocks and tremors. Which creates tremors in areas of UP as well.

The vicious cycle of Polycrisis which is creating simultaneous and overlapping crises is creating troubles on a larger scale. The climate is changing very rapidly, glaciers are melting which is increasing water levels and water is causing floods and then loss of life & property and infrastructure. The cycle of crisis keeps on rotating in one or another face. But we can't keep rushing to manage all the crises constantly coming to us in one way or the other. Yes, all these disasters are created by us and now it's the responsibility of we the humans to put an effort to come out of this menace of polycrisis. We need to be pro-environmental and have to study the cause of this very problem. If the very beginning point of the crisis is fixed, many of our troubles will be cured automatically.

We need to enhance our responsibility and responsiveness towards climate cure and healing.

We all need to enhance our investment in making climate-pro solutions. Enhance cooperation for mitigation efforts, and develop sustainable and viable ecosystems for a crisis-free society. Let's help nature to go back to its original status of peace and natural flow. Let's adhere to the eco behaviour in us, and pledge to never harm the climate for our mean cause.

(The writer is assistant professor, Management Department, Dr VSICS, Kanpur; view are personal)