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the heavens open up unveiling the
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Western gods this is one of the world's
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biggest biodiversity hotspots Kerala is
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a verdant land full of streams lakes
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rivers mountains forests rich in
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biodiversity and home to many unique
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plants and animals the beautiful Western
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gods are spread over one lakh twenty
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nine thousand and thirty seven square
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kilometres these mountainous forests are
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home to highly endangered creatures such
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as tigers nilgiri tahr
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line deer macaws and elephants
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they are also crucial in bringing the
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bounty of the summer monsoon to India
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every year these mountains act as a
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Keely barrier to the rain Laden winds
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from the southwest and they are bound
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with rivers the importance of which has
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been studied for decades scientist
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madhavgarh Gill who headed the western
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ghats ecology expert panel in 2011
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studied this biodiversity hotspot and
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wanted all of it declared ecologically
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sensitive
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westergaard's of course is what well
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perhaps the best studied biodiversity is
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it regions of India till notified
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information is available lot of
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enthusiastic records like the
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westergaard's here and there and about
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its degradation the innocence public
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awareness has been relatively quite high
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but the landscape of the western guards
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has been changing once pristine forests
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these mountains are today under
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tremendous pressure from a growing human
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population deforestation unsustainable
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extraction of resources and altered
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rainfall patterns the new monsoon trend
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has had a devastating effect on the
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ecology as Kerala witnessed in 2018 and
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19
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in 2018 more than 480 people died and 12
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districts were badly affected in the
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floods that hit Kerala
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the extreme rainfall in August 2018 in
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the catchments upstream of the three
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major reservoirs leaky cocky and Puryear
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produced a staggering effect worsening
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the floods
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there has been global warming and it is
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having its impacts all over the world
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not just on Western Ghats all over the
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world and one of the scientific results
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of studies is clearly that the frequency
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of extreme events such as very intense
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rainfall that is beginning to god
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scientists see that the warning signs
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are all day that the monsoon pattern is
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definitely changing India for regions
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like Kayla and Mumbai in the western
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parts and parts of Central India the
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total monsoon is decreasing gradually
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decreasing or a period of time while the
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frequency and magnitude of extreme rain
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events are going out so this is going to
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become a new mo for the future as well
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where you have more dry periods or
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droughts in the middle with extreme
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rainfall events so what you see over
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mainland India or western ghats region
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is that will increase our agency
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temperatures you have the fluctuating
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monsoon winds carry more moisture from
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the Arabian Sea and coming it over India
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and the western ghats within a few hours
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or a few days time
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so for india the total rainfall which we
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receive during the monsoon season he's
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showing a gradual decrease you can see
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with this gray line there's a gradual
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decrease in total monsoon rainfall which
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we received during June to September so
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that degrees is evident during 1950 to
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2080 well the same time if you look at
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the number of extreme rain events this
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red line you can see that there is a
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steady increase in the number of extreme
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rainfall events over India on August 8th
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2019 58 people were buried in their
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homes when a mountain of mud descended
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upon them in Kavala para in Malappuram
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district the skies came crashing down in
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the dark of the night in Kabul upaya
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when there was no power people didn't
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realize the magnitude of the tragedy
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until the next morning
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scenes of loss and trauma unfolded
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everywhere allaha decided to move away
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at 7:30 p.m.
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ass position that saved her life her
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neighbors and distant relatives were not
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as lucky people realized that the mud
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had turned into a tide the previous
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night swelling with the floodwaters and
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sweeping down a mountainside on which
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stood a thin cover of rubber trees there
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was a tsunami of mud the hills that had
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stood far away for yours suddenly seemed
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to be at the doorstep bald and imposing
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five kilometers away from kabbalah para
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in pod our people were evacuated just
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before the landslides
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this prevented the loss of many lives as
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the flood waters goes down further they
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created their own path
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removing houses trees and other
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obstructions leaving only a trail of
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boulders rubble and shattered lives
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farmers who relied on the rubber trees
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lost their land the land was now strewn
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with immovable rocks dirt and debris the
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precious rubber trees had banished
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away from Kabbalah para input the
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Malayan V&R district there was another
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deadly incident a landslide here killed
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17 people overnight puta mala is 11
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kilometres from memory and known for its
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dia states the land in houses was swept
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away across several kilometers leaving a
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trail of destruction as news of the
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destruction echoed across the country
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with images flashing of rescuers digging
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through the rubble and mud looking for
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survivors
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dr. gargle visited the disaster struck
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areas his recommendations had earlier
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been rejected by the authorities I think
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unfortunately we have a lawless society
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supported by the states lawlessness
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this is States lawlessness that the
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environmental impact assessment reports
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are written elsewhere for completely
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fabricated reports are accepted and
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projects allowed to go on this is
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government so long as this when we have
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pointed out to ecologically highly
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sensitive areas allowing disturbances to
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those areas again very negligently was
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in part responsible
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but it's not just rainfall it is evident
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that mining also triggers landslides in
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the hills
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Kerala has to tackle another major
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challenge rock quarry in the mountains
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most of which is illegal in his report
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dr. gut Gil had called for a halt to
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rock quarry in the gods hello we are
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certain more about deep voice the number
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of quarries you know 5927 quarries in
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kerala now they're reborn but this is
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what is recorded by the kind of person
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source Institute out of that less than
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thousand only is a proven line since one
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rest of them are illegal so the first
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sentence on this quarry business what we
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said illegal Koreans will be should be
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immediately stopped but nothing has
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happened here now or so
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we have the mold system of blasting in
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the columns which is still in going on
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you make a big hole in the granite fill
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it with explosives blast it
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now when you blast it the waves which is
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causing its first to long distance and
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the sound waves if you could look at the
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sound waves they travel the first in
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diamund the next fastest medium here's a
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grenade
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now if whenever a blast happens it
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becomes a shaky and at one point of time
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when there's a heavy rainfall and when
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the weight of the water is quite high
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the soil just slides over
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Rock Calling poses a particular threat
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to areas with exclusive rubber
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plantations because these trees cannot
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hold the soil firmly heavy rain scoops
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the soil and takes it downhill
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but is there any way Kerala can end the
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lucrative business of rock Warren can
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the demand for rocks be met from some
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other source
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the amount of rocks gravel pieces which
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we have put it now I will say is huge
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there's one doubt it's not do you
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predict any work all day now if you are
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if the government decides to take the
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ground back that way enough for many
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generations the firm of consumption to
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happen again
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mining is being that unduly negligently
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windmills are being set up everywhere
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and the roads to windmills are
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constructed unduly negligently because
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if there are landslides due to those
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roads to the windmills all over you can
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see westergaard's there are landslides
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relating to road construction for the
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windmills on top of the hills the
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windmills get penalised in no way
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because a man we had above top 8.75 left
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the tips of language the environmental
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destruction and the monsoon disruption
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are a result of failed policies and a
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contempt for science today they pose a
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threat to careless food security
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economic prosperity and people's safety
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in many places after the storms receded
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people began to remove the silt clean up
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and restore normalcy in their lives but
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the question really is are they safe in
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the future we have been talking about
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sustainable development for ages but
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nobody is practicing that properly we
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have to now definitely buy a road this
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is what I said the Kerala Government you
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should pass her a solution anonymous
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resolution in the Assembly saying that
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care law will have only sustainable
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development program here of town
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scientists warn that if unlawful
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practices continue unabated lives and
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livelihoods cannot be saved and so today
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Kerala is at a crossroads it has to make
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a choice it must shift to a green
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development path or risk even more
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deadly disasters like floods and
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mudslides
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I'm gonna poker can't disappoint you
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good nerve and somebody took a Menasha
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Harkin sumbitches a murder carrier can't
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disappoint you eaten number where the
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neighbor nobody will come the hell -
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booty number or karma I was having
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rather a problem thank you for America
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voters go to the pattern like a poorer
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somewhat America Wendy he care nothing
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but doesn't a little Kern and early care
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of my demonic are come who are you Rama
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will come idea of pure shear particle
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kodo-san Markham well I'm Martha I'm
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around Rocky sohe my trap course you're
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a little program which a decayed in the
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Cunha Nalanda mobile hour read-a-thon is
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okay for on the move in
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muhahahaha money change another question
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a cathode is a in the Mahabharata
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it is a modern galerkin's a silver
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general of Sigma 11 we will look at
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another book
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Mahaprabhu ima remove our day in the one
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of the Fenian almost Romana I didn't
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know killa now the Essure energy trade
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with him but it is even sure no mana in
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the second alarm
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