UGC NET Reading Comp Q1

Question

situation in the Western Ghats region which is ecologically very sensitive and valuable. A western ghat State which has inflicted the most damage on the environment has come to suffer the most.
The report of the Madhav Gadgil Committee which studied the destruction caused to the Western Ghats environment and made sensible recommendations to remedy the situation was thrown into the dust bin, and another committee under Dr K Kasturirangan was setup to water down its proposals.
The recommendations of the Kasturirangan Committee were also not implemented. Gadgil had prophetically warned in 2013 that the tragedy that is waiting to happen will not take ages but only four or five years to happen. The abnormal natural events and the huge devastation caused by them now may only be intimations of bigger calamities lying in wait in future. Lives which are lost now will not be regained, and nature which is lost will take several hundred years to rebuild itself. The greater tragedy is that the lessons of the tragedy are not learnt at all.
The author of the passage regrets:

Accepted Answer

Vulnerability of high altitude areas