Nepal, Sept. 4 -- The stunning collapse of Langtang Lirung, at 7,234 m (23,734 ft) the highest peak of the Langtang Himal, a subrange of the Nepalese Himalayas, and the 99th highest mountain in the world, and the subsequent hell that it unleashed in Nepal and Tibet, has surely sounded the death knell in the struggle to contain anthropological climate change.
Even as rescue efforts to find some thousands still missing continued, a widely discussed report of the UN's Environment Programme or UNEP, based out of Nairobi - probably the first report from within the UN system to do so - admitted the battle is lost. Just in case seeing 5-storey border infrastructure getting swallowed whole by muddy water couldn't convince you, this report has the ...