Yes, the 'GOD's own country", Kerala, recorded the highest daytime temperature (39 degree C) last week. The SUN is really burning down.
Kerala, some time (means 4-5 decades)back had the homegardens-that mixed dense pattern of cropping-trees, fieldrops, animals, birds and human beings co-existing in a single land unit. It was a regular landscape feature of this state. It is gone now.
Instead, we now have the "flat (residential space) culture" -all the vegetation is removed to create concrete jungles. The "Green Umbrella" has been removed from the soil and mind of the locals.
We hardly notice that the SUN is really heating up all these concrete jungles. That umbrella cover, that shade, the trees provided, is no longer there. "The land of coconuts" has become bald now. All our homes and offices are exposed to the sun from 6 am to 6pm. No wonder they become hot air ovens by noon. It is only by 2 am or 3 am that our buildings really cool down! it is only then that we are able sleep peacefully.
Can this trend be reversed? I think, it is possible. We have to bring back the "Green Umbrella". Let us first establish tree cover in all the vacant, wasted lands in Kerala.
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