Inviting Trouble

"Inviting trouble"

We all know that there is a mass of sub-soil water  all over the world. There is petroleum, there is coal and other minerals too. In other words the ground in the cities and villages is resting on these subsoil solids and liquids.

The earth is millions of years old and  until  a couple of hundred years back  there was negligible extraction of subsoil stuff . Then the Age of Science dawned.

In the last hundred years in particular, we have removed massive amount of coal, water and petroleum products the subsoil of earth.

A number of lakes throughout  the world are drying or are completely dry due to pumping of sub-soil water indiscriminately for irrigation and other urban uses .When you indiscriminately keep removing the  subsoil  water, trees start dying because this water sustains the roots of trees. Land turns barren.Lakes dry  up ( eg. Badkhal lake in Faridabad .)

With the supporting subsoil water levels rapidly sinking, the ground surfaces starts sinking very slowly but steadily. To add to the woes of the earth we are now replacing old one or two storey houses with multistorey towers thus putting immence pressure on already sinking land.

A time comes when , particularly in sea shore cities, you will find sea level rising in relation to the city surfaces. SanFrancisco   is already witnessing this.

https://www.google.co.in/m?q=is+san+fransisco+sinking&client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new&espv=1

Climate change is not just because of pollution. It is a cumulative result of a number of factors. while we are worried about car emissions and use of coal, the plunder of the subsoil stuff contimues unabated.

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