Monsoon changes due to humanizing landscapes

18. How for do you agree that the behavior of the Indian monsoon has been changing due to humanizing landscapes? Discuss.

    Humanizing landscapes refers to the inference of humans in the natural landscape and changing them to suit our needs. Eg. urbanization, industrialization , etc.

    Due to humanizing landscapes the natural balance has been disturbed. Excessive deforestation, increase in pollution and pollutants, rise of built-up area, global warming, etc. have occurred because of anthropogenic interventions.

    The Indian monsoon is also said to have been affected because of humanizing landscapes.

• Increase in the number of condensation nuclei due to increased availability of pollutants and dust particles has led to the urban regions receiving increased rainfall than the rural regions
• Increased built up area has allowed increased heating of the surface. This increased temperature has caused more vapouration and affected rain patterns
• Deforestation has had an adverse impact on monsoon.
• Increased concretization leads to increased run off and less water percolation thereby affecting water cycle and disrupting monsoon cycle.
• The pressure differences which are vital for monsoonal precipitation have been unbalanced and unpredictable
• High rise buildings have caused variations in local wind patterns and altered precipitation.
• Global warming, rise in sea level temperature etc. have made the monsoon erratic and unpredictable. They cause draughts in one region and floods in another. Such extreme whether events have been on the rise primarily due to anthropogenic activities including humanizing landscapes.