It was enough to break the heart of any environmentalist. Ten endangered Asiatic lions were drowned in a flood in India. That is the headline and I am sticking to it. There are only 523 left. What is noticeable is that there were also 81 confirmed human deaths. That is, however, in the third paragraph of The Independent article and of little significance. There is no listing of how many are still alive.
The heart breaking aspect for the environmentalists is not that so many lions died but that they can’t find a way to blame it on humans. Nature did it. Monsoons are not new occurrences. Floods are not unusual in monsoon country. Lots of other animals died.
I didn’t find any reference to global warming.
homo unius libri
You know what's also the headline; the entire damn blogpost.
ReplyDeleteAt least that made you read it.
DeleteO, well. The dangers of posting while on the road.
I will see if I can correct it.
Grace and peace.
Cows don't count for anything either; they have to be WILD animals to matter.
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