The nature choice of devastation of two hilly states in successive years points something serious than what we are able to understand and grasp through our myopic prediction models, the tragedy even if measured at very conventional scale, goes into thousands of lives and thousands of crores of property and unmeasurable amount of environmental assets.
Pages have been written over why it happened and how it can be averted, so my wisdom is not going to add anything into these scholarly views, what i am really concerned that are we really prepared to withstand the onslaught of nature, what has happened in hills can happen in plains in slightly different form and given the sheer density in these areas the scale of damage will be unfathomable .
In our daily lives we violate the pristine norms of nature so easily and unknowingly that it never occupies the space in our major societal concerns,we dont ever feel guilty by throwing paper on road that finally chokes the drainage and causes the flood.
what i mean is that all the mammoth problems are just summation of small mistakes committed over a period of time . the care for environment and to live by it norms should be deeply embedded into the cultural and societal way of living similar to what we teach our kids about other things.
Another silver lining is that the younger generation is getting more and more smart , you give them mobile and see how quickly they pick up its functions , similarly if we sansitise them regarding nature and environment they will surely come with their unique way of protecting and preserving environment.
