Yesterday night while casually flipping the TV channel came across this PBS documentary on Climate Change. The documentary took the viewer to glaciers of Himalaya and how they are retreating so fast. The scenes were troubling to me, least of which is because I was born in the great land of Himalayas, India. Yes, probably the documentary touched me more deeply than it would somebody who does not call the region their ancestral land, nonetheless the message was unmistakable and applicable to humanity as a whole. The central message of the documentary was that we are all in this together no matter which part of the world we live in. The Himalaya glaciers may be receding , but so are countless others , from Rockies to Alps to Alaska, to that little glacier they talked about in Montana.

I recommend the reader to watch the video themselves and for those short on time, I will post a summary here when I have some free time. TV reporter David Brancaccio and environmentalist Conrad Anker have done a wonderful job of documenting the ill effects of global warming and the disturbing trend of unsustainable development. According to them this could result into food security issues for millions of people in very near future, mostly in Ganges basin, who have been historically dependent on the river’s water for thousands of years. The displaced population will be a national security risk and would affect the world as a whole with global shortage of food, water, and clean air.

So many well meaning people have started to think in this area, time for me to do some serious thinking as well… nothing concrete so far, but tomorrow is yet another day…will see what it brings!

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Yesterday night while casually flipping the TV channel came across this PBS documentary on Climate Change. The documentary took the viewer to glaciers of Himalaya and how they are retreating so fast. The scenes were troubling to me, least of which is because I was born in the great land of Himalayas, India. Yes, probably the documentary touched me more deeply than it would somebody who does not call the region their ancestral land, nonetheless the message was unmistakable and applicable to humanity as a whole. The central message of the documentary was that we are all in this together no matter which part of the world we live in. The Himalaya glaciers may be receding , but so are countless others , from Rockies to Alps to Alaska, to that little glacier they talked about in Montana.

I recommend the reader to watch the video themselves and for those short on time, I will post a summary here when I have some free time. TV reporter David Brancaccio and environmentalist Conrad Anker have done a wonderful job of documenting the ill effects of global warming and the disturbing trend of unsustainable development. According to them this could result into food security issues for millions of people in very near future, mostly in Ganges basin, who have been historically dependent on the river’s water for thousands of years. The displaced population will be a national security risk and would affect the world as a whole with global shortage of food, water, and clean air.

So many well meaning people have started to think in this area, time for me to do some serious thinking as well… nothing concrete so far, but tomorrow is yet another day…will see what it brings!