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Kashmir’s Economy Feels the Effects of Climate Change

By Nusrat Ara |

by Nusrat Ara
- Indian-administered Kashmir -


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Kashmir's glacial melt feeds millions in neighboring India and Pakistan Photograph by Flickr user Koshur Samchar, Ahmedabad used under Creative Commons licenses.
After the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted to a major mistake in its 2007 report, which asserted the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, skeptics and opponents alike went on the offensive, using the admission as proof that climate change is a fabrication. Though the 2035 deadline may no longer be valid, global warming is surely having an effect on the ground and activists are now faced with an even tougher challenge.

Climate change has affected nearly every country in the world, irrespective of the role it has played in polluting the environment. Lying in the lap of the great Himalayas, Kashmir is one such place, and we are already feeling its impact.

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