Monday, April 4, 2022

 Wildfires In India 

As wildfires rage in almost every forest barring the Mangroves and Uttarakhand province of India is being no exception. 

One after another, Pine forests are going up in flames especially in Uttarkashi district, that can be spotted from Space thanks to cloudless skies. The valley in between the ridges are hazy with smoke.

What is peculiar in India is that no Media channel covers them, one newspaper however reported another interesting story , that same state decided to fire "5000 forest guards due to budget constraints" this year. They also reported those Government employees were on Princely Salary of Rs. 8000 only, well only a prince can manage a family life with small amount as no one dares to ask a payment from a Prince. Sadly the forest department workers are no prince.

So that state now has raging "Forest Fires" and probably will continue to have that for next two months because Local Government decided to fire the forest department guards.

Now Supreme Court of India has no issues with Forest fires because the smoke isn't reaching the capital "New Delhi" and no one told them as yet, these Himalayan Forest fires prevent any cool breeze coming to the northern plains, which Traditionally reduced the night temperatures. So only wind that will come is hotter wind from West, creating intolerable heatwave. 

It's "String Theory" darlings, your electricity Bills depend on how much air conditioning you use, which depend on your city's temperature,  which in turn depend on prevention of Wildfires in hills quite a distance away.  So if you don't want boil yourself to death in heatwave or pay huge amount of electricity bills, take note of Forest Department's activities irrespective of whether you want to visit the forests or not.


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