Letters to The EDITOR: Climate change and its impacts

Environmental change is one of the most over-the-top savagely discussed logical issues of the beyond 20 years. Specialists highlight rising ocean levels, record-breaking temperatures across the globe, declining air quality and sporadic atmospheric conditions as various indications of environmental change. Today, specialists, attendants and other clinical faculty are causing to notice the adverse consequences on human wellbeing brought about by an undeniably warm, more intensely contaminated climate.

A team of climate change researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) found that "global warming is [responsible] for some 150,000 deaths each year around the world"; they feared this number would double by the year 2030. Climate change fatalities are generally linked to four different catalysts – (1) rising temperatures, (2) declining air quality, (3) extreme weather and (4) vector-borne illness etc.

Human impacts are the main source of a dangerous atmospheric deviation, particularly the carbon contamination we cause by consuming petroleum derivatives and the contamination catch we forestall by obliterating backwoods. The carbon dioxide, methane, sediment, and different contaminations we discharge into the environment behave like a cover, catching the sun's intensity and making the planet warm. Proof shows that the 2010s were more sweltering than some other ten years on record — and consistently since the 1960s has found the middle value of more sizzling than the past one. This warming is changing the world's environmental framework, including its property, air, seas, and ice, in broad ways.

Chandini Bharadwaj,

Guwahati.

Attack on Salman Rushdie

The attack on India-born British-American novelist and author, Salman Rushdie, serves as a stark reminder that freedom of speech is a right, and we dare not take it for granted.

The fact that a work of literature may contain elements that some readers may find offensive surely doesn't entitle critics to ban others from reading it and certainly doesn't justify passing a sentence of death on the writer, whether in his/her presence or absence.

Arbitrary and oppressive restrictions on the right to express ourselves are reasserting themselves worldwide, especially in totalitarian states and ones ruled or dominated by clerics.

We mustn't let the vile attempt on the life of a gifted and courageous writer deter us from giving expression to our own creative energies.

Salman Rushdie has faced several death threats since his novel 'The Satanic Verses' was published in 1988, as many people considered it to be blasphemous.

Jubel D'Cruz,

Mumbai