The rising temperature is a concern across the globe and we at India are also facing the pinch across the country. Northeast India where heat waves were unheard of a decade back is experiencing a mercury rise of 30+. Hills are also not spared and with the mass deforestation taking place the temperature has risen substantially.

Environmentalist was voicing their concern which has not made any big impact or social changes. We have closed our eyes and ears with the objective of living today and letting the future takes its own course. The very future has come knocking at an accelerated speed and we no longer can stay in denial. In the last hundred years we the human race has destroyed thousands of years of nature that this earth was gifted.

Tripura government had shut down schools and electricity disruptions have become common which means the demand has increased. All strata of people are going for air conditioning at least in one room to save themselves from the heat. It is becoming unbearable for the grassroots-level working class also, which was unheard few years back. Of course, easy installments and aggressive marketing plans by the AC manufacturer have made people rush for artificial means. Without an AC vehicle in this heat, it is becoming unthinkable to venture out.

We are living in a catch-22 situation as the more we consume, the more we pollute, and this dilemma we have made ourselves fall into, there is no light in the tunnel visible. The rate of acceleration towards polluting the world has not even decreased by a fraction of a degree but is increasing at an accelerated rate. It seems one pandemic is not enough to make us learn our lessons as economics is above all tragedies be it wiping off the human race from this planet.