World Environment Day: A planet to live for
Declarations of climate emergency had reached a crescendo, when the pandemic brought us all to a standstill. In the abrupt quiet, we heard the birdsong, and signs that a lesser human footprint could help the environment regenerate itself. But it can't be at the improbable cost of shutting down an intricate machinery of economies and human endeavour. On occasion of the World Environment Day, what then do we hope for this living planet to be?
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
A massive, calved iceberg seen from a research aircraft, Antarctic Peninsula region. October 31, 2017
Scientists at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research suggested a last-ditch engineering project to blanket a West Antarctic ice sheet’s surface with 7,400 gigatonnes of artificial snow over 10 years to stop it from sliding into the ocean and trigger a sea level rise, submerging coastal cities. People found the idea as preposterous as building protective domes to cover our cities or moving people to another planet to escape the troubles here.
