The accelerated melting of glaciers due to climate change poses a significant global threat, particularly to coastal and low-lying regions, including densely populated areas in India and other countries. Rising sea levels, driven by glacier melt and thermal expansion, endanger millions of lives, infrastructure, and ecosystems.

By 2030, 300 million people could be exposed to deadly heatwaves, with 600 million facing reduced quality of life. The Indo-Gangetic plains and southeastern coast are at highest risk. Food security hangs in the balance, with wheat yields in Punjab already down 20% due to early heatwaves. Power grids, strained by air-conditioning demands, risk more blackouts, hitting hospitals and schools hardest.

A world where your freedom to breathe clean air, eat nutritious food, or even pursue your career is dictated not by your choices but by the whims of a warming planet and fracturing global trade. What does freedom mean when rising temperatures threaten your health, and trade wars choke your access to goods? In 2025, as climate change accelerates and economic rivalries intensify, the very concept of freedom is being reshaped.