Nature is a great leveller; it refuses to differentiate between the developed and the under-developed, the rich and poor.

If the world opinion-makers would wake up to their responsibilities, Mother Nature’s purpose will have been served. The ‘Climate Conference’ in Paris several years ago had reached an agreement of sorts on certain aspects of climate change. It was heart-warming to note that in a world, in which human values – what to talk of human life – had lost all sanctity; there existed people who still worried about such causes as global warming.

One came across a rather disturbing item of news the other day about the melting of Greenland’s ice cap. According to the AFP, the melting had gone so far that it was now irreversible, with snowfall no longer able to compensate for the loss of ice. The item quoted a statement from Ohio State University stating, “Greenland’s glaciers have passed a tipping point of sorts”.

The subject in question is hardly new. The menace of global warming has been in the news off and on for years on end. Not many people whom matter took it seriously enough, though. There is a notable tendency among people to adopt a lackadaisical attitude towards such matters till such time as a hazard rears its ugly head. This is as just now the world has been caught totally off-guard by the Pandemic.

During the many Multilateral Conferences in the past, when the subject of global- warming came up, it........

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