Ice caps are melting, forests are on fire, the floods are coming. Rolex Award winner Sonam Wangchuk wants to know what you are doing about it.
2016 was the hottest year on record in human history. 2017 – and every subsequent year for the foreseeable future – is set to break this record. No, ‘they’ aren’t lying to you; we’re in the opening scene of a sordid apocalypse saga. Sonam Wangchuk, though, can tell you what it looks like at intermission.
You probably know Wangchuk as the guy who inspired Aamir Khan’s character in 3 Idiots. In India, that’s arguably why people flock to auditoriums to listen to Wangchuk’s speeches (and line up for selfies). To the rest of the world, he’s the mountain man, who built magnificent artificial glaciers, called ‘ice stupas’, with his students at the alternative education outfit SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh) in Jammu and Kashmir. Last year, the engineer and educationist became the second Indian ever to be awarded the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise. Here, he tries to bring some common sense back into the discourse on global warming.
To many, climate change isn’t a tangible reality. What evidence have you seen that confirms this truth?
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