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For the past few weeks, Chennai has been battered by relentless rains and floodingthe worst in over a hundred years. The city has been under water for many days. Power supply has been shut off due to safety concerns. Phone lines are down. Schools and offices are closed. The venerable local newspaper, The Hindu, failed to publish the daily edition for the first time in its history since it was launched in 1878. The airport is closed, and 3,500 people are stuck trying to get out. The common mode of transport in Chennai today is by boat. Yes, boat.
My immediate family members are either marooned in their homes with no power and telecommunication or have moved in as guests in high-rise condos belonging to friends and neighbors.
It continues to rain. Theres no respite expected for several more days. The government has declared Chennai a disaster zone, and the army has been deployed to help thousands of stranded citizens.
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phantom power
(25,966 posts)Maybe ignoring climate change is what is actually "bad for business"
navarth
(5,927 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Channai is an outsource center for many old US jobs. I hope this wakes up companies to pull some of those jobs back here.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)... maybe to Bangalore or other inland locations, far from the ocean.
renate
(13,776 posts)Each one of those little tin shacks represent a family's entire worldly goods. They had so little and now they have almost nothing. And it's not as though they don't have to pay for those one-room dwellings, either. I just cannot imagine the suffering.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)But the corporate class will just move on like the vulture capitalists that they are.
"Damn the downtrodden! Full profits ahead!"
perdita9
(1,144 posts)Juicy_Bellows
(2,427 posts)"Hey Bob, on the next wave of 'off-shoring' can you pick a poor place with a little elevation? "
perdita9
(1,144 posts)But humans are selfish and would take the necessary steps to protect their planet
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The Koch brothers and other conspirators pushing the global-warming-is-a-hoax hoax.
Is it time yet to put these reprobates on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean and ask the one last time before abandoning them, "Do you still believe climate science is a hoax?"