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Government agencies have been keen on building rock walls to protect India’s shores, but these structures fix one problem only to create another.
Editor's note: The city of Chennai is home to many monuments worth visiting. There’s the impressive Madras High Court building and the mysterious gateway-like structure on the Besant Nagar beach. But an even more interesting structure lies at the northern end of the city. To the north of the Chennai Fort railway station and the Chennai Port, where the road runs along the Bay of Bengal, several rock walls protrude from the coast and into the sea. Crashing against the brown-bronze rock, the waves turn into foam. The walls are spaced a hundred or so meters apart, looking like a giant bar chart on the coastline. This is neither a tourist attraction nor a geological wonder. And when environmental journalists like me show up at such places, it’s usually bad news. The rock walls, known as groynes (also spelt groins), are built by the government. They serve as a monument to our failure in solving environmental problems, and a warning as India prepares to adapt to the effects of climate change. These groynes were built in the mid-2000s as a “final solution” …
Government agencies have been keen on building rock walls to protect India’s shores, but these structures fix one problem only to create another.
Editor's note: The city of Chennai is home to many monuments worth visiting. There’s the impressive Madras High Court building and the mysterious gateway-like structure on the Besant Nagar beach. But an even more interesting structure lies at the northern end of the city. To the north of the Chennai Fort railway station and the Chennai Port, where the road runs along the Bay of Bengal, several rock walls protrude from the coast and into the sea. Crashing against the brown-bronze rock, the waves turn into foam. The walls are spaced a hundred or so meters apart, looking like a giant bar chart on the coastline. This is neither a tourist attraction nor a geological wonder. And when environmental journalists like me show up at such places, it’s usually bad news. The rock walls, known as groynes (also spelt groins), are built by the government. They serve as a monument to our failure in solving environmental problems, and a warning as India prepares to adapt to the effects of climate change. These groynes were built in the mid-2000s as a “final solution” …
Bluesky vs X, the UAE deluge, Adar Poonawalla’s investment in Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and more.
In the name of infrastructure, tourism and development of Ladakh, we are witnessing an invasion of the economy of the plains over the ecology of the hills, the consequences of which have already been witnessed in recent years in Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023, proposes to exempt India’s seafood industry from coastal regulations, just when the coast needed more protection.
Bluesky vs X, the UAE deluge, Adar Poonawalla’s investment in Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and more.
In the name of infrastructure, tourism and development of Ladakh, we are witnessing an invasion of the economy of the plains over the ecology of the hills, the consequences of which have already been witnessed in recent years in Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
The Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023, proposes to exempt India’s seafood industry from coastal regulations, just when the coast needed more protection.
