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Too Hot To Handle

This has been an interesting decade. Beginning with a breakthrough in digitalization, progressing with numerous worldwide developments, and nevertheless, approaching the end with a big BAM ! (aka COVID-19) Out of all of the global episodes that occurred in these 10 years, only one, however, managed to persist, increasing in its severity by each passing second. Any guesses? Climate change is not a “potential” or “distant” threat anymore. It is, and has been right here, enveloping the grey skies, sheathing the dirty roads, layering the brown and swollen rivers since the past couple of years, insisting to stick around for more. Climate transformations have resulted in phenomenally rising temperatures, giving way to melting of polar ice-caps and glaciers, depletion of the ozone layers, extinction of plant and animal species and topping the charts, our favourite phrase – global warming.   Extreme weather conditions are sweeping the globe and their most devastating impact is...