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Were India's floods caused by reckless greed?
2013-06-24 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Natural disasters often follow a predictable path in India. A flood or an earthquake happens every few years, the government blames the vagaries of nature, the right sympathetic noises are made, and all is forgotten until the next one comes along. But last week's cataclysmic floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, surrounded by the Himalayas, have provoked a debate on whether this particular disaster was caused - or at least worsened - by reckless human greed. At last count, 5000 people...
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