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"The Indian Ecosystem changes due to climate change" (Thematic Report )

by Anoushka Sinha | 19-09-2020 03:47




India is a land of varied landscape we have climate ranging from snowy cold mountains in Kashmir to dry,hot terrains in the North to heavily drenched areas like Mawsynram in Cherrapunji. India has it all beaches, lakes, rivers,thick forests but our ecosystem has come under the radar of this disastrous climate change.

  The Indian Climate Index was at 14th position and  has reached to an even alarming rate ranking  at number 5. This leads us to think about the various climate risks that India is facing due to the vast variety of climate zones, topography it houses.The Great Himalyas are at an all time high risk of subsequently melting, the long duration of no rains causes great harm to crops even leading to droughts in the various regions of India, this causes an indirect effect on the GDP of India. India has been badly affected due to cyclones, floods like those in the regions of Orissa and Kerala. If we take account of the casualties due to dis balance in our climate almost 220,000 people had to leave their homes, 20,000 homes and 80 dams were destroyed. Indian ecosystem is has been ravaged by cyclones some of them being amphan, titli, and that left 450,000 people without electricity. Due to the increased number of greenhouse gases and effluents released global warming is alarmingly increasing and the burnt is being carried by our ecosystem India has experienced temperatures as high as 48¡ÆC . The biodiversity and ecosystem of our Western Ghats has been threatened due to exploitation, mining,pollution,and deforestation two thirds of the region has been affected which leads to various destructions like landslides and floods too.

 The pressure on Indian ecosystem is just intensifying due to over dependence on the natural resources. The Indian glaciers I'm the Himalyas are melting gradually, the sea levels are rising posing a threat to the 100000's of people who live near the coasts.150  river stretches have been identified as completely polluted. The deep,thick Sundarbans which are an ecosystem in its self are critically endangered land along this region is sinking at a rate of 5mm, it has lost maximum amount of land to sea as a result of erosion, The Andaman and Nicobar islands are at a threat of facing a tsunami, the forests have been destroyed at 78% amongst the south asian countries,  the rhino, elephant , musk deer have been endangered due to human activities.

 Overall the Indian ecosystem has faced problems like flooding, landslides, increase in temperature triggering earlier flowering, habitat fragmentation  is happening due to colonization, logging etc. Coral reefs have been dying due to increased CO2, loss of our biodiversity has changed the food cycle, overuse of  natural energy resources like biogas which requires large area leads to monoculture and destruction. 

We need to understand how grave the situation is and not step back but as responsible young people take responsibility and promote use of more ecologically sustainable sources, plant more trees, spread awareness, try to educate people about this issue only then we can witness change.