Riding towards Kodaikanal town and I'm shook. Much of the forest is now ashes. Forest guards are finally here with fire management teams, only took two weeks of raging fires to get their attention?
Sigh.
What's remaining is very much at risk until monsoons put an end to this rampage.
@harshad I'm sorry. I feel much the same about most of the people I share my space with... but I think that means we're actually in the right place, because maybe we can make a difference? (Maybe. I keep telling myself.)
@harshad I totally understand, that's horrifying to see. (There were lots of small fires visible here yesterday as farmers bulldozed their tiny patches of wetlands and burn all the trees. So. Stupid.)
This is when I want to use the capitalist learnings from earlier career and acquire as much land as possible, bring private guards and keep arsonists in check on that land. Wildlife cam roam free. If only I had the resources. If I see no future where people accept sharing space with wildlife, then we must be the highest bidders to carve out that space and enforce security that forest authorities are unable to.
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