India needs to wise up on climate change

Climate change naysayers will try to discredit facts, as well as science, but global warming is becoming more critical with each passing day.

Last month was the warmest September documented on record, a trend that has become ominously routine. It is forcing changes in the earth’s climate that might soon be irreversible. Iceland recently held a funeral for the first glacier the country lost to climate change.

Most scientists and studies have given the world time till 2030 to rein in the rising mercury within 1.5 degrees Celsius from what it was before the 1900s to avoid the worst impacts …

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Pradip K. Saha

Pradip is a co-founder at The Morning Context and leads our newsletters vertical. He has previously worked at The Ken as a staff writer, at Mint as an assistant features editor and the Deccan Chronicle as a copy editor. He works with a slew of expert newsletter writers across subjects and domains. His own writing spans the gig economy, farmers caught in the crossfire of technology, global warming and parents trapped in the edtech wave. Some of his best stories have come at the intersection of technology and human endeavour.

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