Katrina disaster
The people of the southern part of the United States of America are experiencing the hardest time of their life. They are scrambling for food and shelter, aged men, women and children are dying and languishing in the hospital. National Guards and law enforcers are in the streets to prevent looting and disorder. The trail of devastation is too big to count it instantly. It will take a year to recover from this devastation, it is the greatest natural disaster the US has ever experienced. The international news channel BBC, CNN and SKY NEWS are broadcasting non-stop the plight of the hurricane torn New Orleans State's people. It seems to me that I am watching any famine or war stricken area in Africa or Iraq. It has been branded as the new Tsunami. Anyway, the next thing to ponder here is, who is to blame for this horrible scene ? Is it natural calamity, or human activities are responsible for it? Of course, it is nature that we have to blame for the disaster. But human society and activities do influence nature negatively or positively. We have seen the hostile face of nature in several parts of the world in the last few years. Scientists and meteorologists predicted this type of consequences long before, but leaders from all over the world are yet to make any unanimous decision on how to minimise the effects of human activities detrimental to the environment. As a result, initiative like the Kyoto Protocol has been an unfulfilled hope for the ill-fated people of the world. Think about Kyoto, America has always bypassed this protocol to avoid economic loss. The US is now defeated by the nature for its own actions. Implement the Kyoto Protocol; be kind to nature so that it can also be kind to you.
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