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Cognitive dissonance undermines adaptation: engineers cling to control while heat, drought, and riverine collapse demand urgent change. Riaz Missen Heat is steadily settling over the Indus plains. Unlike the sudden violence of floods or storms, this transformation arrives quietly yet persistently: dry winters harden the soil, heatwaves stretch across weeks, …

By Najib Ahmad Radio is being sold a dream that sounds too good to refuse. Artificial intelligence, we are told, can write scripts, generate voices, schedule shows, analyze listeners, and even “understand” what audiences want—faster, cheaper, and without fatigue. Efficiency has become the new religion of broadcasting. But beneath this …

True flood resilience lies in adapting agriculture and settlements to rivers, not endlessly trying to control them.