‘The option of doing nothing about climate change is unthinkable’

Hyderabad | Wednesday | 13th November, 2019

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Kakoli Mukherjee ByExpress News ServiceHYDERABAD: Bush fires, water scarcity, rising sea levels — this is the era in which the effect of climate change is not just a theory, but is being felt across the world. Closer home, be it the smog in New Delhi or the water scarcity in Chennai, they are signals of dire times ahead. Tim Flannery, a climate change expert and former climate commissioner for the Australian government, was in Hyderabad on Tuesday and delivered a talk at an event organised by Manthan at Vidyaranya High School. He said: “Climate change is a grim reality now. Global hunger has increased manifold due to the impact of climate change on crop production..