Look around you. Your house may soon be swallowed by the sea. According to a report released by Greenpeace, which has inputs from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Columbia University of the USA, West Bengal is one of the states in the country most vulnerable to climate change and a consequent rise in sea-water levels. Even if the sea rises by only as much as 2 metres by the middle of this century, Kolkata will be inundated. We are staring a man-made disaster in the face. The 0.6