This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Sunday, 28 August 2022
The Global South Gets the Worst of It!
Pakistan's top climate official has said that a 'cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade is wrecking non-stop havoc' across her country. In Pakistan, since mid-June, deaths from flooding have topped 1000 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/pakistans-south-braces-for-deluge-as-death-toll-from-floods-tops-1000). Flooding in that country has washed away villages and crops. Some 33 million people have been displaced by the rising waters. Climate change is largely generated in the Industrialised Northern hemisphere. Its most drastic consequences, however, are currently being felt most strongly in the poorer South. This doesn't appear to be fair?
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