Chapter 627 The Cooling Reality

Due to the sudden heavy snowfall, many tourists in Kathmandu were forced to stay.

Professor Hunter, who brought three students to Kathmandu for a cultural inspection, has been staying in the hotel for almost a month. They originally planned to take a flight back to Greece a week ago.

However, a sudden blizzard caused the group's flight to be canceled and they could only stay in the hotel temporarily.

"teacher."

Professor Hunter, who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, heard the voice behind him and turned around: "Augustus, are there any flights?"

The student named Augustus replied with his hands: "No, maybe not even in the next month. The airport in Kathmandu is restricted by the terrain. Even if there is light snow, it cannot take off or land."

"Really? That's such a pity." Professor Hunter looked helpless.

Another student, Jizhe, who came back with takeout, opened the door and walked in, followed by a brown girl. The girl wore a pair of large round-framed glasses. As soon as she came in, she asked:

"Augustus, have you booked your flight tickets?"

"No, the weather is not good and all flights this week have been cancelled."

The girl sighed: "Are we going to spend Christmas here? Oh my God!"

Jizhe took out the takeout and said with a smile: "Safety first, let's eat!"

The table was quickly filled with five boxes of vegetables.

Seeing the fish-flavored shredded pork and Mapo tofu, Professor Hunter picked up his spoon and said, "It's actually Chinese food. I'm almost tired of eating curry rice and Western food this month."

Jizhe explained with a smile: "There are many Chinese here, especially in Beicheng District. There seem to be thousands of Chinese working here, so Chinese food naturally follows."

"When I visited the temple yesterday, I saw a lot of Chinese people nearby. They seemed to be recruiting employees." After taking a mouthful of rice, the girl complained:

"But the wages they give are too low. No one in Greece is willing to work for that kind of salary."

Scooping up a spoonful of mapo tofu, Professor Hunter asked with a hint of helplessness: "Helen, do you know how many unemployed people and refugees there are in Kathmandu?"

Um... Helen shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.

"Three months ago, 760,000 refugees arrived here, and the local unemployed population reached about 230,000. These people have no unemployment insurance or relief funds. If no measures are taken, hundreds of thousands of people will be suffering from hunger and cold. lost life."

Helen was shocked to hear this explanation.

"Chinese people have a saying, why don't you eat meat porridge? We also have a similar proverb. This is why I want to bring you here to do a social survey." Professor Hunter also has good intentions.

Young people like Helen who live in Xizhou have no idea that there are such cruel things on this planet.

For the poor in backward areas, unemployment is not just a loss of a job, but may even be a loss of life.

Jizhe on the side asked another question: "Teacher, in the construction area in Beicheng District, more than a dozen historical buildings and a large area of ​​natural forest were demolished. Isn't this inevitable?"

"You have seen that the construction of new cities has destroyed the natural environment and some historical buildings, but you have not seen that tens of thousands of jobs have been created during the construction of new cities. Don't look at the world through colored glasses."

While eating, Professor Hunter talked with three students about what he had seen these days. His main research areas are social development and international relations.

He is also very responsible for several students. If you want to make achievements in this field, social practice and field investigation are essential.

Although the Internet is now developed, it does not mean that fieldwork has fallen behind. On the contrary, fieldwork has become more important.

The Internet is filled with countless information that is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Without on-site inspection, it is sometimes difficult to judge whether it is true or false.

Professor Hunter is an expert on South Asian issues and has published many related books. Three years ago, he predicted that Tianzhu might intensify internal conflicts due to certain issues and then fall apart.

The current situation was unfortunately what he said.

Since Tianzhu was in chaos, he could only go to Kathmandu to collect the real situation in South Asia.

From the perspective of a bystander, he saw a lot and also saw the underlying reasons. Hunter originally planned to write a research and prediction book on the future of South Asia after returning.

But they didn't expect that the weather suddenly changed and trapped their group in Kathmandu.

After dinner, Jizhe went to make a pot of coffee.

After taking a sip of steaming coffee, Hunter looked at the non-stop light snow outside the window. He turned his head and said:

"I will give you a graduation project. You will analyze the impact of extreme weather on the situation in South Asia. As long as you complete this project, I will approve your graduation."

"extreme weather?"

“Impact on the situation in South Asia?”

Augustus, Helen and Ji Zhe took out their notebooks and wrote down the names of the topics while beginning to meditate.

Professor Hunter reminded: "Take the current weather in Kathmandu as an example. This city protected by the Himalayas has almost never seen such a heavy and long-lasting snowfall in modern weather records. You can think about the possible consequences. Impact."

Augustus, who was relatively calm, raised his head after a while: "Teacher, from this big snowstorm, I think South Asia will be completely penetrated by Greater China."

"Why?" Professor Hunter asked with a smile.

"Food!" Augustus said with great certainty: "In the past month or so, I have noticed that extreme weather has occurred to varying degrees throughout South Asia. Agricultural production has been greatly affected, and the population here is dense. If not With enough food, it’s hard for me to imagine how we can maintain stability here.”

Professor Hunter nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, you have seen the fatal flaw of this land."

In fact, Professor Hunter has another huge worry in his heart.

That is the matter of global cooling. This matter is not a secret that cannot be told among the top scholars in Western Continent.

He and several old friends are all working on related topics.

In particular, what impact will global cooling have on the world, and how the Western Continent Alliance will respond? After more than a year of research, Professor Hunter is worried about the future of mankind.

If the Ice Age really comes early, based on the current preparations of mankind, except for the tropical equator, other areas may have to face ultra-low temperature weather.

Once food production is reduced on a large scale, 30 to 40% of the world's more than seven billion people may die from the sudden climate change at the beginning of the Ice Age.

He didn't know if Greater China was aware of it, but without taking into account controllable nuclear fusion technology, Hunter and others believed that heavy losses would be suffered all over the world.

There may even be ultra-extreme predictions of civilization regressing and the population plummeting by 80 to 90%.

This is also an important reason why he is worried and pessimistic about the future of mankind.

Snowflakes were falling outside the window.

Everyone in the room drank hot coffee, discussed their opinions, or looked up recent climate data from around the world on their laptops.

But the poor people in Kathmandu don't think too much. They don't care what the world will be like ten or twenty years from now. They just want to have enough to eat and a house with shelter from the wind and rain.

The Ice Age, which is related to the future of mankind, is too far away for these ordinary people. The sluggish life in front of them is the theme song in their minds.

This is the reality of life.

We cannot expect a person who does not have enough to eat to think about world peace and the future of mankind.

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