Pakistan update

[Tortuga]

This article summerizes the environmental, political and future situation of Pakistan. Its bad, really really bad..

 

https://www.vox.com/world/2022/8/30/23327725/pakistan-flooding-unprecedented-political-economic-humanitarian-crisis

[Tortuga]

Though some degree of flooding is common in Pakistan during monsoon season, the intensity of the rainfall this month was 780 percent above average, according to Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman.

 

“More than 100 bridges and some 3,000 km of roads have been damaged or destroyed, nearly 800,000 farm animals have perished, and two million acres of crops and orchards have been hit,” the United Nations’ World Food Program

[hatcheckgirl]

Compared to the floods that occurred on the East coast of Australia multiple times over the past yr, the situation in Pakistan is heartbreaking. The sheer magnitude of their losses! It’s just unthinkable.  The Australian flood victims are still waiting for housing, most still in temporary accommodation, but at least in a first world country they had access to some govt financial help.  What hope do these poor people in Pakistan have? Their government is broken. Ours is broken too, but there’s is pretty much smashed.

 

A week before, Afghanistan had also suffered devastating floods in the poorest of the poorest area, that had not recovered from the earthquake, and were in famine due to crop failures, and with war and Taliban as well.

[Dustparticle]

I hope the friends are doing OK.

[Miss Bea]

First time on news, yesterday. Houses in Pakistan are not made from wood. They are made from substances that do well in the heat.Not extreme rain. With what is going on, they were just crumbling. 😢

Those of us who still have a, “comfortable” life, are concerned. We know how close we are to the end of this system. And, still, we groan. 
Here, a whole nation is wracked not just by the politics. But, by religion. As, “”faithful”, as they may be, the predominant religion in this country gives no understanding, let alone hope to what is going on.

We are inhabitants of this earth, and we feel a connection to other fellow beings. Yes, in far away Pakistan. 
Come, Jehovahs Kingdom, come! 

[Dages]

I listened to the news on the radio, they call this a biblical catastrophe. Good thing we don't have many friends in this country...