From the Editorial Board: 'For developed nations to think they’re somehow immune, or that climate change remains a faraway threat, is foolhardy and patently dangerous.'
Pakistani women wade through floodwaters as they take refuge in Shikarpur district of Sindh province, of Pakistan on Sep. 2, 2022. Pakistani health officials reported an outbreak of waterborne diseases in areas hit by recent record-breaking flooding, as authorities stepped up efforts to ensure the provision of clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people who lost their homes.
Last week, Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., Masood Khan, met with the Tribune Editorial Board and discussed the massive scale of the floods’ impact. In all, 33 million Pakistanis have been affected by the floods. The square mileage submerged is “equivalent to Colorado’s territory,” he told us. “It’s a direct consequence or impact of climate change.”
on how climate change is influencing mankind, its planet and our future. One of the report’s most startling findings: It’s the developing world that’s bearing the brunt of climate change’s harshest fallout — between 2010 and 2020, 15 times as many people in developing countries were killed by droughts, floods and storms than in the world’s wealthiest nations.
In Pakistan, however, there’s no place to hide. Deadly floods were preceded by heat waves that approached 127 degrees, Pakistan’s climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, told National Public Radio. Even the catastrophic floods that put a fifth of the country underwater in 2010 were attributed to rising global temperatures. Those floods killed more than 1,700 people and left millions homeless.Pakistan needs immediate help to recover from this disaster.
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