Farmer suicides rise in India as climate warms, study shows
NEW DELHI, India - When Rani's
husband died by drinking pesticide, he left the family in debt. But even
if they could pay off the loans, Rani said their farming days are over."There are no rains," said the 44-year-old woman from drought-stricken Tamil Nadu, one of hundreds of farmers protesting in the capital for more government support. "Even for drinking, we get water only once in 10 days."
The message "is that farming is an inherently risky
occupation, with annual incomes often held hostage to the weather, and
it's getting riskier in the era of climate change," said Vikram Patel,
an Indian psychiatrist and mental health expert with Harvard Medical
School in Boston who was not involved in the study. More
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As humanity searches for its extraterrestrial roots, amount the
enigmatic objects found along the way are the Drop Stones of Tibet.
Who were the Dropa? The Dropa (also known as Dropas, Drok-pa, or Dzopa)
are, according to certain controversial writers, a race of dwarf-like
extraterrestrials who landed near the Chinese-Tibetan border some 12,000 years ago.
Skeptics note, however, a number of problems with the case (and a lack of corroborative evidence), which offers significant doubt as to the reality of the more sensational Dropa claims. Mainstream critics argue that the entire affair is a hoax.
Skeptics note, however, a number of problems with the case (and a lack of corroborative evidence), which offers significant doubt as to the reality of the more sensational Dropa claims. Mainstream critics argue that the entire affair is a hoax.
Alleged Discovery -- Chi Pu Tei, a professor of archaeology at Beijing
University, and his students were on an expedition to explore a series
of caves in the pathless Himalayan mountains of the remote
Bayan-Kara-Ula in Qinghai on the border of China and Tibet. The caves
may have been artificially carved to be a system of tunnels and
underground storerooms. The walls were squared and glazed, as if cut
into the mountain with great heat.
They found many neat rows of tombs with short 4 ft 4 inch skeletons
buried within. The skeletons had abnormally big heads, and small, thin,
fragile bodies. A member of the team suggested that these might be the
remains of an unknown species of mountain gorilla. Prof. Chi Pu Tei was
said to respond, "Who ever heard of apes burying one another?"
There were no epitaphs at the graves, but instead hundreds of one foot
wide stone discs ("Dropa Stones") were found having 3/4 inch wide holes
in their centers. On the walls were carved pictures of the rising sun,
moon, stars, the land, mountains, and lines of pea-sized dots connecting
the earth with the sky. Along with the discs, the cave drawings had
been determined to be about 12,000 years old. More
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