“Wisdom demands that people adopt the changes and the patterns of both public and private life much before climate change forces them to change the practices and patterns of social and economic activities.”
Global warming has brought institutional working under tremendous stress and so much so that from livelihoods to routine practices of working at public institutions people find themselves reeling under the stress of heat wave. In the grip of such an intense heat wave wisdom demands that both the Government and as well as the people change their both the working hours and as well as the patterns of working according to the change in weather conditions. Unfortunately both the authorities in the Government and as well as the local populations instead of changing the timelines of routine working at public places and patterns of their routine working tend to draw the parallels between the present and past just to continue with the routine practices of working at public places. People had no issues in continuing with the routine practices the time when weather had no role in enforcing the timing and patterns of any public activity. Since climate change has enforced changes in the routine practices of both the public and private lives of the people in almost all the parts of the world , the climate change in coming few years would for obvious reasons most likely change the routine practices and patterns of both the social and economic activities of the people in Kashmir also. Wisdom demands that people adopt the changes and the patterns of both public and private life much before climate change forces them to change the practices and patterns of social and economic activities. Heat wave creating a draught like scenario and bringing both the agriculture and horticulture sector under stress in Kashmir also necessitates shift to alternative methods of irrigation facilities like bore wells and drip irrigation system in both the paddy fields and as well as apple orchards as the conventional sources of water like springs and irrigation canals have already dried up across Kashmir.
“Since experiences have shown that Government intervention is always a compulsion in securing lives and livelihoods of people, administrative wisdom demands that Government enforces necessary changes for changing the routine practices and procedures of social and economic activities with the change in weather conditions with the spirit of securing the lives and livelihoods of the people during the ongoing hot and humid weather conditions in Kashmir.”
The education system too has come under stress and compulsions of climate change has now forced the School Education Department to change the school timing and issue Standard Operation Procedures for the students of Primary and Secondary classed. Here in Kashmir children used to resist the resistible temperatures and attend classes with no stress of heat wave but children don’t have the physical strength to resist the increasing stress of heat wave with temperatures soaring 3-4 degrees above normal much before the commencement of peak summer period beginning from June and ending not before mid August. Fact remains that in routine weather conditions hardly once in 5-10 years the occurrence of water born diseases would be noticed in any remote village but with the rise in temperature the occurrence of water born diseases and complaints about dehydration in peak summer months can bring hospitals under stress due to unprecedented rise in attendance of patients at OPDs of the hospitals. Since experiences have shown that Government intervention is always a compulsion in securing lives and livelihoods of people, administrative wisdom demands that Government enforces necessary changes for changing the routine practices and procedures of social and economic activities with the change in weather conditions with the spirit of securing the lives and livelihoods of the people during the ongoing hot and humid weather conditions in Kashmir.
