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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