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A user posted this video from Karachi…. Oh Sorry !! I mean Kohzikode in Kerala😱 100% CHUMTIYA state saarrrr 🤮🤮

No trees, more heat urban roads trap extreme temperatures. Green cover cools naturally; the difference is not small, it’s survival.

Real forests, the kind that cool land, hold water and shelter life, cover just over 3% of India. The official number says 21%. The gap between those two figures is not measurement. It is a definition that was quietly rewritten in 2001 to make a crisis disappear on paper. The missing 17% is orchards, coconut groves, bamboo plantations, tea and coffee estates, rubber farms, eucalyptus plots, roadside tree lines and urban parks. All counted as forests. A tea estate in Assam. A coconut farm in Tamil Nadu. A eucalyptus plantation in Andhra Pradesh. A bamboo grove in Odisha. All forests, on paper. Because in 2001, the Forest Survey of India decided that any land with 10% tree cover qualifies. They just forgot to mention that the FAO, whose standard they claim to follow, explicitly excludes fruit plantations and orchards. This is not a rounding error. This is a policy decision. And it is why nobody fixed what was broken.

Look at this map. Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine. And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet. The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers. What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades. But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions. A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest. A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is. You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one. In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said. It chose the numbers. The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi. All forests, on paper. The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped.  The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion.  It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning. The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency.  I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to. This is not a technicality. This is the con. It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement. For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant. They did nothing. Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it. The BJP is different. When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it. The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real.  Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated.  The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally. CONT++

As if poverty porn of 75 years was not enough, we now have weeping tree cutting anti-development porn, which chooses to ignore a quiet fact most Mumbai tree-felling (and India wide) debates ignore: India's forest and tree cover rose from 22% of geographical area in the mid-2000s to over 25% in 2023 (ISFR 2023).

Latest toolkit of Congress IT cell- blame govt for excessive heat. Use following pointers: 1. Under Modi govt deforestation happened to create industries, hence the heat. 2. Govt is still levying high taxes on ACs. 3. India is the worst place to live in geographically, politically, socially. Best part is that this is an El Nino year & heat will hit everyone hard but your Congress activists will tell you Dubai is colder than India (in April) & this is fault of your govt.