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"Pakistan is living through a serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade."By by Tasneem NashrullaBuzzFeed News ReporterPosted on August 27, 2022, 5:24 pmTwitterFacebookLink Entire buildings are crashing down and being washed away. Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam Horrifying footage from S. #Pakistan today of entire building washed away by floods. Over 935 people killed, more than 33 million affected, worst natural disaster for country in decades: 07:50 PM - 26 Aug 2022 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @Joyce_Karam People are being rescued on bed frames pulled across gushing water. Sky News @SkyNews Heavy rain since June has led to devastating flash floods and hundreds of deaths in Pakistan. People are seen being winched to safety across the water on a bed frame. Latest world news: https://t.co/QC8Psfuitc 12:57 PM - 27 Aug 2022 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @SkyNews Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes destroyed in the deluge. Muhammad Sajjad / AP Displaced families taking refuge on a roadside after fleeing their flood-hit homes, on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Aug. 27, 2022. Nearly 33 million people have been affected. And almost 1,000 are dead. Asif Hassan / AFP via Getty Images Children use a raft to make their way in a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains on the outskirts of Sukkur, Sindh province, on Aug. 27, 2022. These are the devastating effects that Pakistan’s deadly floods are wreaking on the country. Dubbed “the monster monsoon of the decade” by Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman, torrential rain in the region has killed at least 982 people since June, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. Every 24 hours, the agency lists hundreds of men, women, and children who have been injured or killed because of collapsed roofs, flash floods, or drowning. “Pakistan is living through a serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade,” Rehman said in a Twitter video. “We are, at the moment, at the ground zero of the frontline of extreme weather events in an unrelenting cascade of heat waves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events, and now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking nonstop havoc throughout the country.” The unprecedented deluge — worse than Pakistan’s 2010 "superflood," which affected 20 million people — has overwhelmed the country’s resources, prompting leaders to urge the international community to help with relief efforts. One of the hardest-hit provinces, Sindh, has requested 1 million tents for its displaced residents, Rehman told Reuters. But there aren’t enough tents, and people are seeking refuge in makeshift shelters in school buildings and mosques, she said. The streets are filled with stagnant sewage water, and the risk of waterborne diseases is high. “This is clearly the climate crisis of the decade,” Rehman said. “Through no fault of our own,” she added, noting that Pakistan emits less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming is causing Pakistan’s 7,000 glaciers — the largest number outside the poles — to melt, causing glacial lake outbursts triggered by heat waves in the country. This year, extreme weather events like droughts, heat waves, and floods are affecting every part of the world. In Africa, floods have taken a devastating toll on tens of thousands of people in Chad and Gambia, while nearly 4.6 million children in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia are threatened by severe malnutrition following a severe drought in the region, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Meanwhile, in Europe, receding water levels caused by drought are revealing underwater artifacts, while three ancient Buddha statues resurfaced after water levels plunged in China’s Yangtze River. And in Dallas, a summer’s worth of rainfall in one day wreaked havoc in the city amid a drought in Texas. Weather disasters like droughts are inextricably linked to human-induced climate change. The planet has already warmed 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, according to NASA, and that’s making disasters worse. Stopping this vicious cycle will require drastically reducing our reliance on climate-polluting fossil fuels. Wall Street Silver @WallStreetSilv The worst flood ever in Pakistan happening right now. 33 mil people affected. 784% above normal rainfall. This video is shocking. Watch the buildings getting taken out. 03:47 AM - 27 Aug 2022 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @WallStreetSilv CJ Werleman @cjwerleman Climate change wrecking havoc on Pakistan’s Malakand Division. Thousands dead. Tens of thousands homeless and displaced. 01:51 AM - 27 Aug 2022 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @cjwerleman SenatorSherryRehman @sherryrehman Madyan bridge,KP. Communications ministry informs us that it was built 5 metres above the level of the bridge that went down in the 2010 superflood. Now the water is inundating the bridge. They thought they were building back better by raising it much higher. #PakistanFloods 03:01 PM - 27 Aug 2022 Reply Retweet Favorite Twitter: @sherryrehman Zahid Hussain / AP A man carries a cot salvaged from his flood-hit home in Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Aug. 25, 2022. Muhammad Sajjad / AP Displaced people wade through a flooded area on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Aug. 27, 2022. Arshad Butt / AP People stand in their homes partially damaged by flooding after heavy rains, on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Aug. 27, 2022. Muhammad Sajjad / AP Pakistani men sit at their flood-hit home wall on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Aug. 27, 2022.
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