The world has already forgotten about #Pakistan and moved on to focus on the circus in #UK.
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We knew catastrophic climate change was coming. But for #Pakistan it has already arrived
Previously, when the riverbed area flooded, people would take shelter on the river’s embankments. For Pakistan’s 2010 #floods, Khairpur provided refuge for several people displaced from the katcho. When the water receded, they returned home. Health authorities helped prevent water-borne disease outbreaks and most displaced people received some meals at relief camps. We heard of a few people dying from the flood waters, but largely, we didn’t hear of large-scale deaths from starvation or preventable and treatable water-borne diseases in our district.
All of that has changed. Relentless monsoon rains, following on the heels of unprecedented heatwaves, overwhelmed irrigation drains and flooded areas before the Indus River overflowed its banks. Following the rains, peoples’ homes started falling. Both katcha and pakka — cemented and uncemented — homes fell. In our haveli — a collection of family homes sharing a common compound –– the rich and poor lost their homes, though of course the poor suffered infinitely more.
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https://thediplomat.com/2022/09/a-plea-from-pakistans-sindh-our-village-drowned-you-might-still-have-time-to-save-yours/
#Monsoon rains were 460% above normal in #Sindh, and floodwaters may take 6 months to recede. The #UN calls it "climate carnage."
Deaths have reached almost 1,500.
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"People have lost everything."
It takes years for the field to be fertile again. The consequences of the floods will devastate the Pakistan economy for years to come. This is what we are facing in the coming years.
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“Our village, our town were all submerged. We came here and were living in tents. Now the tents have blown away."
This is truly heartbreaking. The world has already forgotten about Pakistan!
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The current UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, has lamented that the world is “sleepwalking” through Pakistan’s devastating super-flood. If one takes climate change seriously, how can one be blind to Pakistan – a country that has already warmed a dreaded 2.2F?
Forget solidarity: the global south will not survive this century without climate justice. You in the west are talking about paper straws, we in the global south are talking about reparations.
Our countries and our lives are dispensable for the world at large. We have always known this, but we are simmering with rage now. What else can you feel when $880m was raised in a day and a half after the cathedral of Notre Dame suffered a fire in 2021 but an entire country of drowning poor must beg for climate aid and assistance?
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Hundreds of thousands of homes are under water in Sindh province. Locals have no food and say the state has abandoned them
Between 5% and 10% of the city’s population of 350,000 are still stuck in their flooded homes. Those who can, travel around by boat. Others swim in the flood waters with a stick to get about. Sewage and flood waters have mixed to a dirty green. Interviews with local people painted a picture of a disaster on a scale that the government and NGOs were unable to cope with.
“Yesterday, along with my ailing father, we stood in this corner of the city for three hours but the rescue team did not help my father or provide him with anything,” he said. “We had to rent a boat and send my father to a nearby hospital for treatment. The entire city is drowned with people inside their houses. No one from the government has come to help us.”
The world has moved on and already forgetting Pakistan.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/opinion/environment/floods-in-pakistan-climate-change.html
"As we continue to see more and more extreme weather events around the world, it is outrageous that climate action is being put on the back burner as global emissions of greenhouse gasses are still rising, putting all of us – everywhere – in growing danger," Guterres said in the video statement Tuesday.
"Let's stop sleepwalking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change," he said, adding, "Today, it's Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country."
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The time and spatial lag between the causes and effects of climate change is one of the primary reasons why it is easy for liberals to present such disasters as “humanitarian” issues, erasing the political roots of the tragedy. As Fredric Jameson reminds us, this amnesia is built into the logic of capitalism, as the accumulated exploitation of the past is deployed to control the present. But since this past is rendered invisible in the commodities exchanged on the market, it appears as if this exchange is equal. In other words, capitalism appears natural, but presupposes a history of violence and exploitation — a history that capital negates and suppresses in its own development.
The erasure, from public discourse, of polluters who are primarily responsible for the suffering of millions of people and for threatening planetary catastrophe, is itself part of this process of exploiting the time and spatial lag between greenhouse emissions and their deadly consequences. The result is an attempt to depoliticize this suffering and obstructing accountability of countries and companies in the Global North — giving the false impression that we are “all in this together” as one threatened human family.
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https://jacobin.com/2022/09/floods-pakistan-natural-disaster-global-south-climate-crisis/
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Pakistan appeals for more aid as flood death toll rises
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This is going to turn into the worst humanitarian crisis in the modern history.
And the ridiculously slow reaction of the western leaders to help is truly troubling.
The World Health Organization warns catastrophic flooding in Pakistan has left more than 3 million children in need of humanitarian assistance and at increased risk of disease, drowning and malnutrition. The #WHO has declared the flooding a “grade 3 emergency” — its highest level. New satellite images showed how unprecedented monsoon rains have created a 60-mile-wide inland lake around the overflowing Indus River, leaving a huge swath of Pakistan underwater. United Nations officials warn the flooding of hospitals and clinics could compound the spread of water-borne diseases like dengue and malaria.
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Sadly the reaction from the world is (as expected), slow, insufficient and in many cases non existent.
The clock is ticking, every day that passes, is a day too late to help these millions of hungry, thirsty and homeless people.
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This is what happens when you overheat a planet
Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan's record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake.
Swaths of the country are now underwater, after what United Nation officials have described as a "monsoon on steroids" brought the heaviest rainfall in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million since mid-June.
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#TomorrowIsTooLate
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/31/asia/pakistan-floods-forms-inland-lake-satellite-intl-hnk/index.html
