00:05The devastating floods in Assam have claimed at least 50 lives so far, while nearly 700,000
00:12people have been affected and forced to leave their homes.
00:15NASA saying that the frequency of both droughts and floods have doubled over the last 10 to
00:2220 years.
00:23We are not only the world's most populous country, we are also the country where there
00:29is the biggest informal sector and the biggest proportion of population dependent on agriculture
00:34and allied industries.
00:36What is going to happen to those crops standing under the sun, think of the farmer, big chunk
00:40of population dependent on agriculture, they are also dependent on the monsoons and climate
00:46change is going to disrupt the rainfall patterns it already has.
00:50How will there be crops at all, what economic growth are we talking of, there is just too
00:54much rain at the wrong place at the wrong time, from where will the crops come.
00:58And if the crops are not there, what economy are we talking of.
01:01India is one of the countries that is going to be the hardest hit even in economic terms.
01:06What economic growth are we talking of being negligent of climate change.
