Dec 04 2015
A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka
GUEST: Meera Subramanian, award-winning journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, Nature, and more.
Heavy rainfall in the southern states of India has resulted in massive flooding, particularly in and around Tamil Nadu. The capital city of Chennai saw its wettest day in 100 years this week. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the city to offer emergency relief funding. The Indian army and disaster relief agencies have been working around the clock to rescue thousands of stranded people but many remain missing.
Like many parts of the world, India has suffered severe droughts and major flooding over the past several years as climate change takes hold. Prime Minister Modi was just in Paris for the start of UN climate talks and insisted that, “India needs to grow as 300 million people are still without access to energy. We are determined to do so.”
As the world’s largest democracy and one of the largest national populations on the planet, even small scale changes in India have large impacts. My guest, Meera Subramanian spent many months in India investigating its environmental challenges and how ordinary people are meeting them.
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