Precipitation of probabilities

Less than 40 cm rain in a day was all that was needed to make infrastructural and technological marvels crafted over a century, redundant.

Food, health and security are the three essential things for human survival. As a society, we need to ensure these before we concentrate on structural and virtual empires.

The wise learn from their past. Are we wise enough?  Perhaps the only thing that a hawkish economy will learn is the need to insure. We can expect attractive immovable property insurance!  

Chennai- XII/2015 is just one incidence of precipitation of probabilities about which the climate change bandwagon has been highlighting. Till yesterday, if rain of this magnitude used to occur once in a century, from tomorrow, it will become once in 50, 40 or 60 years. Well over 80% Chennains are likely to experience this at least once, if not more times.

Haridwar, Chennai, ………. The list will swell. What is be the magnitude of economic losses? Can we recoup it? The important but perpetually overlooked question remains ……. . Could we have reduced the intensity of deluge? Let us keep it aside till the next one.