Blog Action Day: Drought and floods hit the poorest
Fewer and fewer people who believe "Climate Change" is fiction. The hard evidence the climate *is* changing, is in our face: Hurricanes and typhoons become more frequent and more violent. Extensive droughts are followed by devastating floods.
Unfortunately, the poorest are hit the hardest. Look at what Typhoon Ketsana recently did in the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Followed a few days later by Typhoon Parma.
For months now, the humanitarian community has been warning about the droughts in Kenya, which is now taking its full toll. What is said to be the worst in the country since 1996, with 3.8 million people now tumbling over the poverty line and becoming dependent on food aid.
The misery is not over, as floods are kicking off the rainy season in many parts of Africa.
The frustrating part is that even those who previously were able to sustain themselves independently, are pushed again to become dependent on aid. One step forward, two backwards. And the answer is in the hands of the richer countries, to impose proper limits on pollution. Is that not tragic?
Unless we can turn around the causes of climate change, it will only get worse.
This post is part of Blog Action Day, which concentrates on Climate Change this year.
Picture courtesy BBC
Peter. Flemish, European, aid worker, expeditioner, sailor, traveller, husband, father, friend, nutcase. Not necessarily in that order.
8 comments:
There are so many people who claim Global warming to be false, or at least not man-made... fine.
Whether it is actually true or not, there is a lot of evidence that supports global warming and that we are responsible. I think that it is our best interest to error on the side of caution and treat it as though it is a real threat.
If you were given a gun and one person said it has a bullet, the other said it was not loaded.... would you still hold it up to your head and pull the trigger?
I am not sure if we have any effect on global warming but I think we still need to be energy efficient and help the environment.
Once the deep mystery of “climate change” has been solved
And “What’s green and causes CC?” is no longer a popular riddle,
The legacy of the era most likely will be:
“Never in recorded history have so many made so much over so little”.
(With apologies to the late, great Winston Churchill).
Fewer and fewer people who believe "Climate Change" is fiction.
And the answer is in the hands of the richer countries, to impose proper limits on pollution.
I agree that the hardest hit by climate change is the poorer people or nations. All countries need to work together, rather than as seperate entities when tackling the issue of climate change.
Look at what Typhoon Ketsana recently did in the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Followed a few days later by Typhoon Parma.
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