Flood for Thought.

He was sitting on the drivers seat with his trousers folded up till his knees his bata sandals lying on the dashboard of the bus behind the steering wheel the bus conductor managed to arrange for some tea from the guy who used to appear wearing a raincoat and a huge black umbrella with 10 small glasses of tea from the by lanes and disappear after selling it all for 5 bucks a glass in less than 2 minutes to come back with more. sipping on a hot cup of chai my dad told told the conductor ">yaar ye baaris rukne wala nahi hain sayad". He spent 30 hours sitting on the drivers seat which was an inch above water all the other passengers had abandoned the bus he could not.

26th July 2006, was the day when Bombay beat the world record for maximum rainfall in a day, and i am reminded of those floods today because of the grim situation Andhra pradesh and Karnataka, about 500000 people are living in refugee camps, 300 people died, Orissa as a state should be completely evacuated looking at the rate of floods, droughts cyclones that break the states back year after year and its only increasing. People who have to bear the brunt of climate disasters have contributed zilch in causing it and the irony is poor guys dont even know why they are at the recieveing end and who is responsible for it.

But we know it don't we? its us, the rich and when i say the rich i mean the rich of the world discounting the Geographical boundaries, its a fact that Climate change is being by accumulative emissions of over a hundred years of industrialization, its the west who has caused it and they will have to take the lead in cutting down emissions but wait a minute in causing the problem what the west did to us aren't the Rich of India doing the same to the poor of India? We can continue telling the world their emissions are about luxury where as India's emissions are about survival and thats because we are country of over a billion people but think about this.

If the world emissions come down the same as India per-capita emissions which is less than 2 tons per annum climate change as an issue wont exist then but if over a billion Indians start having the same lifestyle like an urban middle class citizen then apocalypse wont be far away.