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The Hindu Editorial Analysis
The Importance of Reading The Hindu Editorial: Reading The Hindu newspaper has several benefits, including improving reading skills, facilitating comprehension, staying informed of current events, enhancing essay writing, and more. For individuals aiming for a career in banking, reading editorials is crucial for vocabulary building. In this article, we will examine today’s editorials, provide practice questions, and highlight important vocabulary words.
Ladakh and Climate Change
- On 6th March 2024, Sonam Wangchuck who is a Ramon Magsaysay award winner and also a climate activist, announced his climate fast for 21 days. In this act he not only addressed climate change issues in Ladakh but also he was making an appeal to the entire world.
- Ladakh is situated at a height of 11,500 feet and comprises around 97% indigenization tribes. These indigenous tribes mostly depend on farming and agriculture for their livelihood.
- Ladakh faces not only border disputes but also due to its geographical situation it faces various climate change issues such as drought, flood, landslides, greenhouse gasses and many other serious issues.
- Rapid infrastructures projects such as constructions of bridges, widening of roads, Railway lines, tunnels, mega solar projects and infrastructures to boost tourism, after Ladakh was declared as Union Territory are one of the main concerns for climate change.
- Many working government organizations in Ladakh are not heeding attention to many previous climate hazards witnessed by the region.
- These climate hazards include floods in Kedarnath in 2013 in which 6,000 people lost their lives, in January 2023 Joshimath faced climate disaster and in November 2023 collapse in the Silkyara tunnel project.
- When a disaster occurs due to any government infrastructure projects the most affected people are poor, migrant workers and pilgrims.
- For development, we can not ignore the balance in Himalayan region ecosystem and biodiversity.
- Sonam Wangchuck’s battle for climate change is just not for the people of Ladakh but it is a fight for humanity.
Important Questions:
- What are some major challenges of climate change in Ladakh?
- How can the infrastructure boom affect climate change in Ladakh?
Important vocabs:
- Derided- express contempt for; ridicule.
- Herald- announced
- Fervour- intense and passionate feeling
- Entente- a friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions.
- Abreast- side by side and facing the same way.
- Harrowing- acutely distressing.
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