#'floods pakistan

[follow-up-news]

Millions of people in Pakistan continue to live along the path of floodwaters, showing neither people nor the government have learned any lessons from the 2022 devastating floods that killed 1,737 people, experts said Thursday, as an aid group said half of the victims among 300 people killed by rains since July are children. Heavy rainfall is currently drenching those areas that had been badly hit by the deluges two years ago. The charity Save the Children said in a statement that floods and heavy rains have killed more than 150 children in Pakistan since the start of the monsoon season, making up more than half of all deaths in rain-affected areas.

[ask-pakistan]

OP How has Umer been as of recent? We send our sincerest regards of concerns to you both.

He has become a firm believer of sleeping your problems off. "Everything's fine", he says as he laughs a little too hard. Domestic Pakistani politics have been a joke recently =_= and it doesn't help that climate change has begun to rear its ugly head in Pakistan :( , This last year has been particularly tough and unkind to Pakistanis. Inflation in particular, has me seeing tears :') I've gotten plenty of asks in the last few months asking if Umer and Mun were okay and I'm fine! Thank you so much for asking! To all the people who dropped by to check up on how i was doing, i appreciate your concerns a lot and you've got no idea how touched i was while reading those. <3

[FUNFACT]: "Khes" is the name of the thin cotton blanket that's wrapped around Umer. It's a piece of textile that derives its origin from Rural Punjab :D

[mapsontheweb]

Pakistan ravaged by climate change

The accumulation of increasingly violent phenomena threatens the population, already weakened by the government's lack of management and prevention.

by @Victor_Simonnet

Unprecedented heat waves from March to June

During this period, both Pakistan and northwestern India record temperatures of 6°C to 9°C above seasonal norms, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Service.

Jhelum, 47°C on April 14 Jacobabad, 51°C on May 14 Nawabshah, 50.5°C on May 14

In 2022 the monsoon started in June, earlier than expected. July 2022 was the wettest month in over sixty years (1961).

The Indus River, the backbone of the country, is both a communication route and a source of drinking and irrigation water for agriculture. Pakistan depends on this strategic river, already weakened by the developments carried out by India upstream.

The province of Balochistan, usually spared by the monsoon, has recorded rainfall five times higher than average since July.

The province of Sind provides a quarter of the country's agricultural production. The spring drought caused the wheat harvest to drop by 20%. More than 1 million hectares of crops were flooded.

With more than 200 million inhabitants and a population growth rate of 2.4% per year, urbanization is accelerating. Towns sometimes develop in flood-prone areas, rivers are modified and their approaches are concreted. The artificialization of the soil reinforces the phenomenon of runoff.

Pakistan is particularly vulnerable to flooding. In 2010 these had caused the death of 2,000 people and caused damage close to 40 billion dollars. Since then, these violent phenomena have become more frequent.

As temperatures rise, glaciers are melting and feeding the flow of rivers. High altitude glacial lakes fracture and suddenly release huge amounts of water. Thirty lakes threaten more than 7 million people.

The cold equivalent of the El Nino phenomenon causes a cooling of part of the surface waters of the Pacific, influencing the cycle of precipitation and the climate of certain regions of the globe. While its usual duration is two years, La Nina conditions persist for the third year in a row.

Le Monde, September 3, 2022

[thoughtportal]

Pakistani human rights and land defender Ayisha Siddiqa was set to give a speech on November 17 at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. However, when it was her turn to take the mic, she instead said, ‘I was intending to come here and share with you facts and data, and the stories of the women who have had to give birth in flood zones, of the ancestors whose graves have drowned, and I don’t think that’s what people need to hear right now.’ Siddiqa then went on to deliver a powerful poem which read in part, ‘I tell you that even our dead have drowned in their graves, and you ask me to be polite. You ask me not to blame or shame, and remember the color of my skin, the sound of my tongue, and my place in your world.’

https://unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP27_87768/agenda

[sspacegodd]

The waters from floods in Pakistan forced so many millions of spiders into the trees, that when the water took too long to recede, the spiders built cocoons and moved in.

[o0o0thorn0o0o]

Eid Mubarak!! I'm sorry if I'm late, my community started celebrating it a little later than others >_< (shaytaan is begging the ummah to make up their mind on when eid is so he knows when he can come out lol) I really hope you have a beautiful eid with your family ❤ eat lots of biryani, nihari, gulab jamun and ras malai🤌 and please stay safe! InShaAllah may your Ramadan have been accepted and may you be rewarded with the highest of rewards ♥ 🤗

(Pffft, omg, I never thought about it that way, hahaha)

Eid Mubarak, Anon ✨✨🎉🎊🎉🎊 (I’m probably late, too, considering how long ago this was sent in, but) I hope you are having/have had a great time celebrating, and, InshaAllah, your Ramadan and deeds have also been accepted!!

I had a wonderful time yesterday ^^ Ahhh, nihari sounds soooo good rn… my family typically makes it once during Ramadan, but alas, there wasn’t any then nor at the party… InshaAllah, next year (and, well, sometime soon, too, because please).

Still a great time, though, ofc, ofc, haha (I managed to get the cards done! …At the expense of getting to the party an hour late, oops, but was worth it, haha). It’s funny, though—it was such an effort keeping awake at night this Ramadan, but the day it’s over, I get around an hour of sleep (in batches), and I didn’t feel tired in the least bit during the party/afterwards. Like, I’m usually pretty introverted even when it comes to just family get-togethers, but I wasn’t at all tired of social interaction when I left (though, we did play several rounds of an argument-based board game just before I left, and I do love me my debates, haha. Have late night discussions for a reason—energizes me right up). My arms and back did, however, end up somehow feeling pretty sore that night and this morning (which I do wonder if that’s where the lack of sleep contributed?).

But, yeah, had a good time this Eid, Alhamdulillah ^^ Hope you do/did, too <3

[rjzimmerman]

About seven and half minutes. Tells us why the flooding happened and its effects on the Pakistani people. Definitely worth spending the time.

[bumblebeeappletree]

The people and industries of the world's richest countries have done the most to heat the planet. But they're terrified of being held liable for extreme weather they've made more violent. Meanwhile, the poorest can't afford to pay for the consequences of other people's pollution. So should the rich world be paying for climate damages – and what's the best way to do so?

Credits

Reporter: Ajit Niranjan

Video Editor: Markus Mörtz

Supervising editor: Kiyo Dörrer & Joanna Gottschalk

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Reparations #Climate

Read more:

COP27 agreement on loss and damage payments: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/file...

Historical CO2 emissions since 1850 from fossil fuels, cement and land use change: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-...

Pakistan floods weather attribution study: https://www.worldweatherattribution.o...

Progress toward the $100 billion pledge: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/finance...

Fair shares of climate finance: https://cdn.odi.org/media/documents/A...

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:10 Background

02:55 COP27

06:13 Climate Reparations

08:48 Tax Big Oil

10:04 Pollution Levies

10:46 Cancel Debt

11:47 Conclusion

[adeerus]

Umbrella Boy: Torrential downpours flooding Asia - another effect of intense summer heat.

[nocomforthere]

Just realized the last time I posted this much in a day was when Andrew Tate was diagnosed with lung cancer. Nothing like tragedies happening to people you don’t care about (talking about the dumbasses in the submersible, not the migrant boat) to get you posting and reposting lmao

[indizombie]

Some people are more vulnerable to climate impacts than others. Developing countries and communities are often the hardest hit. Many already experience devastating destruction caused by climate change. For example, 2022’s summer of disasters saw Pakistan’s flooding killing thousands and leaving millions without a home. Droughts in Somalia and Ethiopia caused food and water shortages, leaving many people facing hunger and famine. Sudden extreme weather events aren’t the only threat. Climate impacts happen slowly too, but the results can still be devastating. Changes to weather patterns means it becomes harder for communities to count on rains coming to grow crops. And rising sea levels mean thousands in coastal communities risk permanently losing their homes, as huge areas of land go underwater. None of this is a far-flung future; loss and damage is happening now.

‘Loss and damage: who foots the bill for climate destruction?’, Greenpeace

[panicinthestudio]

The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers, January 30, 2023

British colonizers created a massive canal system in Pakistan — and helped cause the country’s deadly water crisis. 

In late summer of 2022, Pakistan experienced a devastating flooding event. An unusually severe monsoon season induced by climate change resulted in a third of the country being covered with water. Over 1,600 lives were lost, and water took months to drain out of lower-lying regions of the country, causing disease and displacement. 

On the flip side, Pakistan is among the most water-scarce countries in the world — expected to reach absolute water scarcity by 2025 if nothing changes. You can’t remove climate change from this equation, but an overlooked factor is the role that British engineering played in building water infrastructure along the Indus River and its tributaries, Pakistan’s sole source of surface water. 

A series of perennial canals, dam-like structures called barrages, and embankments were built to extract as much water from the Indus as possible and convert much of Pakistan’s arid landscape into farmland. But this water infrastructure exacerbates the destruction of flooding events and creates a hierarchical system along the canals in terms of water access. 

In our video, we explain the design of this water infrastructure and how Pakistan’s colonial past has made the country’s relationship with water even more precarious. 

Daanish Mustafa, who we interviewed for this video, co-authored a report on Pakistan’s water crisis: https://www.usip.org/publications/201... 

We recommend The Juggernaut’s reporting on the legacy of dams in Pakistan: https://www.thejuggernaut.com/pakista... 

For more context on how Pakistan bears the brunt of the effects of climate change: https://www.theatlantic.com/internati... 

We interview David Gilmartin for this story, who authored a book on the history of water engineering in the Indus basin: https://bookshop.org/p/books/blood-an...

Vox

[xylune]

Art Promotion Post 1

My friend in Pakistan and his family have been affected by the flooding, so I’ll preface this by saying I’m trying to help him sell some of his art to support them. It’s all hand created. Some are acrylic, some are watercolor, others colored pencils.

I’ll be posting a series of images of the pieces he has for sale, starting with this one. These are one of a kind pieces with no prints available, so if you buy it, you’ll be getting the only one.

Landscape in acrylic- $100.00

Lady Resting in the Sun - $100.00

The above two in black/white/pink are a set sold together -$100.00

Woman with Instrument - $100.00

-If anyone is interested in purchasing any of these pieces, you can contact me through PM and I will set up the arrangements with my friend Imran. Payments must be sent through Paypal. More to come after this later!

[shreygoyal]

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Pakistan has emitted 0.3% of historic emissions and yet is one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change…

“We are bearing a full-on humanitarian payload for other people’s carbon consumption.”

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