The bottles and plastic bags that tourists litter all over Uttarakhand do not make glaciers burst.
The construction boom in small villages, with villagers adding an additional room to run homestays, does not cause cloudbursts.
Individual human activity is an annoyance. It mostly just looks dirty. It does not have the capacity to cause climate change.
Dams, bridges, power plants and roads all over the mountains definitely do cause natural disasters. But all of these look "pretty" to us because of our conditioning.
Only large corporations and governments have the scale and capacity to cause planet altering changes.
These are the organisations we need to target. Your individual contributions (recycling, avoiding plastic, cycling), though valuable, aren't stopping the climate train wreck.
The construction boom in small villages, with villagers adding an additional room to run homestays, does not cause cloudbursts.
Individual human activity is an annoyance. It mostly just looks dirty. It does not have the capacity to cause climate change.
Dams, bridges, power plants and roads all over the mountains definitely do cause natural disasters. But all of these look "pretty" to us because of our conditioning.
Only large corporations and governments have the scale and capacity to cause planet altering changes.
These are the organisations we need to target. Your individual contributions (recycling, avoiding plastic, cycling), though valuable, aren't stopping the climate train wreck.