Himalayan degradation
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Explanation:
Some of the human activities are mining, increasing infrastructure due to increased population, agriculturalactivities, road development, encroachment in forestlands, interferences of biotic components with natural inhabitants of the area etc.
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Answer:
Explanation:The so-called ‘Theory of Himalayan Environmental Degradation’ predicted
an environmental collapse by the end of last millennium, threatening the
life of millions of people. Fortunately, the all-encompassing crisis did
not materialize. The article shows that the ‘Theory’ failed to take into
account the vast ecological variation in Himalaya and thus generalized
its contentions to the whole mountain range on the basis of deficient
data. But, on the other hand, what would have happened if the prediction
had not been made? A doomsday scenario like the Theory of Himalayan
Degradation can, from the perspective of positivist hypothesis testing, be
viewed a posteriori as a failed prediction; but from another perspective it
can be seen as an alarm clock that triggered a series of policy initiatives
and new knowledge.
Keywords: Environmental degradation; Himalaya; farming systems;
ecological variation
Introduction
From time to time, doomsday scenarios enter global academic and political discourses.
The gloomy future that was intimated in The Limits to Growth created great havoc in
the 1970s (Meadows et al., 1972). More recently, Huntington’s notion of the Clash of
Civilisations (1993) activated a heated debate over the future of multiculturalism. A
hallmark of such scenarios is that they rarely come true. The 1984 passed much more
pleasantly than Huxley envisaged. But should we thereby dismiss them as useless, as
failed predictions that the world would have made better without?