One sight that disturbs me in and around where we live is the erasing fo the hills for commercial sale of the soil. Soil is in great demand to fill the low lying fields for converting them to be sites for commercial activity, housing projects, building office complexes etc.
We require facilities such as housing, shopping complexes, office infrastructure, etc.
One of the reasons attributed to the recent flooding is the indiscriminate filling of low lying areas, which normally act as waterbodies during the monsoon season and restrict water logging in other areas. Such fields and waterbodies get eliminated due to building activity!
Humans create and destroy!
What we destroy is nature's assets, which have a protective role in our environment.
This hill that is getting erased is adjacent to low lying areas on three sides of it. This hill therefore was a protection to human habitation of several houses on the other side. Now these houses would stand exposed when there is incessant rain!
The regulatory authorities who monitor all these activities are subject to influences and therefore close their eyes to the distant realities and consequences.
This is one instance when I did not watch any protest or resistance from the activists!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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