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When Nature Warns Twice: Why Societies Keep Choosing Reaction Over Stewardship

Recent flooding in Assam, landslides in Kerala's Western Ghats and wildfires across parts of Europe have renewed debate over whether these disasters stem from climate change alone or from decades of governance choices that ignored known ecological warnings. An essay highlights how climate change consequences-such as floods in Assam and landslides in Kerala-are severely exacerbated by local ecological degradation and reactive…