These are the devastating effects of Pakistan’s deadly floods on the country.
Dubbed “the monster monsoon of the decade” by Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman, torrential rains in the region have killed at least 982 people since June, according to National Disaster Management Agency.
Every 24 hours, the agency list Hundreds of men, women and children have been injured or killed by collapsed roofs, flash floods or drowning.
“Pakistan is going through a severe climate disaster, one of the worst in a decade,” Rahman said in a Twitter video. “Currently, in a relentless cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake eruptions, flooding events, we are on the frontlines of extreme weather events and now a decade of monster monsoons are causing uninterrupted uninterrupted monsoons across the country. destroy.”
Unprecedented floods – worse than Pakistan 2010 “Super Flood” This affects 20 million people – already overwhelming the country’s resources, prompting leaders to urge the international community to help relief efforts.
One of the worst-hit Sindh provinces has requested 1 million tents for its displaced resident Rahman Tell Reuters. But she said there were not enough tents and people were seeking shelter in makeshift shelters in school buildings and mosques.
The streets are full of stagnant water and the risk of water-borne diseases is high.
“This is clearly a decade-long climate crisis,” Lehman said. “It’s not our own fault,” she added, noting that Pakistan emits less than 1 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Global warming causes Pakistan 7,000 glaciers – The largest number outside the poles – melting, causing the eruption of a glacial lake triggered by a heat wave in the country.
Extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves and floods are affecting the world this year.
In Africa, floods have devastated tens of thousands of people in Chad and the Gambia, while nearly 4.6 million children in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are at risk of severe malnutrition following severe droughts in the region, according to the UN office. Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Meanwhile, in Europe, a drop in water levels caused by drought is revealing underwater artifacts, while three Ancient Buddha statue resurfaces After the water level of the Yangtze River in China plummeted. In Dallas, a single day of summer rainfall wreaked havoc on the city amid a drought in Texas.
Weather disasters such as droughts are inextricably linked to human-induced climate change. Earth has warmed 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, According to NASA, which made the disaster worse. Stopping this vicious cycle will require drastically reducing our reliance on climate-polluting fossil fuels.
