There is a nature crisis in the #Himalayas. This is a waterfall in the higher Himalayan region at 9500 ft altitude. The pic on the left was taken yesterday and the pic on the right was taken exactly a year ago. 🧵 
The central Himalayas are facing one of the driest year in living memory. Snow has been scarce & so waterfalls like these that come from water pools fed by snow & glaciers are drying up. People in heavy rain areas like this one have no knowledge of how to deal with water scarcity
This dry weather has also led to massive forest fires across the central Himalayas in both India and Nepal. In areas with monoculture of pines this is even more aggravated. Land is drying up, streams are drying up, rivers have scant flow and glaciers are melting.
And yet there is no adaptation & mitigation plan being discussed or implemented. Leave alone restoration. It is evident that it is no more #ClimateChange but #ClimateCrisis and that crisis can not be averted without restoring land, forests, water bodies and nature. Wake up call!
To those who think solutions can be achieved thru Policy alone from GOVT offices in national or state capital, I say just look at the pandemic & know how best of the polices fail unless you communicate with people. Bring mass scale awareness & make people part of the solution
The biggest crisis of humanity is staring in our face and we are simply fire fighting. We need vision, strategy and collective, participative action. And the time for that is NOW. @narendramodi @PMOIndia @PrakashJavdekar @GhoshArunabha @shekharkapur @GhoshAmitav @India4Climate
@calamur @horror06 @suhasinih @Karma_Paljor @vikramchandra @ShekharGupta @SreenivasanJain @PramitWorld @1t_org @UNEP @ErikSolheim
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