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Thread | While some people enjoyed #hailstorm in #Delhi with their children, a 10-year-old in Uttar Pradesh feared what his father (farmer) will do when he will see the destroyed crops in the morning.
#weather #India #ClimateChange @PARInetwork @hridayeshjoshi

This fear-stricken child assures his father that he will study hard and bring him out of the vicious cycle of farm loans. This child’s father – a landless farmer lost all his crops.

#hailstorm #rains #DelhiRains #weather #India #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Now he has to pay rent for the land, arrange money from a private lender to buy the seeds again and restart his life.

#India #agriculture #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Telling me his story, this farmer says, "people say that our dinner should be light, for five-six months in the evening I eat roti (chapati) with salt and water. It doesn't let me eat much and keep healthy as well..."

#agriculture #FoodWars #foodcrisis #ClimateCrisis

"Yesterday evening when we returned home from the temple, my wife asked me what would I love to eat at dinner, I said - roti and salt. hearing this my child skipped dinner and we ate nothing for dinner and slept."

#ClimateCrisis @GretaThunberg @AIIndia @yamunajiye @RURALINDIA

Due to frequent loss in rains & winds, this farmer is not able to send his child to school and making him study with the help of his smartphone.

#ClimateCrisis @_YogendraYadav @yogital @divyaconnects @vineetkhare

For some people, it could bring a glitter in their eyes as they could see this as the positive story of the internet but for this farmer, it is one of the heights of his helplessness. He wishes to make his child study but he can't.

#ClimateCrisis @FAOclimate @KotaNeelima @UNDP

He wished this year will bring good fortune for him, a step up in the dark well of life-threatening conditions. But this year, the extreme nature of western disturbances destroyed all his crops and hopes of a better future or a future none the less.

@UNDP_India @ruchitgarg

While this farmer will eat roti and salt as his dinner from now onward to a couple of months, the country will focus on other things.
@dr_chayanika @arvindpadhee @Ghair_Kanooni @DanAlluf @NavinSinghKhadk
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