Fighting climate change the Bharat way: Vedas hold the key
, 2022-12-11 08:31:15
Did anyone ever ask how and why did Bharat have a big famine every two years after she came under the British Crown in 1858?
The British plundered and exported 320,000 tons of wheat to England during the famine, more than six crore Indians lost their lives courtesy British crimes.
Tea, opium, indigo, jute, sugar, wheat plantation are some examples of exploitation and environmental destruction by the British in India. They declared our forests as ‘Protected Territories’ treating them as wilderness, they increased the cultivated land area to 6.7 million hectares between 1880 and 1920 for revenue generation, to feed their growing urban population and for raw material for industrial production.
To meet their requirement for wood as fuel to run locomotives, they destroyed our forests, each mile of railway track required 2,000 railway line sleepers; forests disappeared as railway tracks spread throughout Bharat.
Who is responsible for global warming?
France, Germany and the UK had cleared their land for farming and coal-fuelled industrialisation before the 1850s. The US, Russia and China were cutting down their temperate forests for agriculture and fuel. The rainforest of Brazil and Indonesia were deforested for growing rubber, tobacco, cash crop, palm oil plantations, logging and cattle ranching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The European region bears a significant responsibility for its historical contributions to global warming pollution. The…
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