Damascus-SANA
After the failure of climate protection measures in many countries of the world and the great failure of the most emitting countries at the COP26 summit, the repercussions of that failure began to become evident as nature poured out its wrath during the past few weeks through a series of hurricanes that were considered the most severe and destructive over the past years. .
The hurricanes that swept across cities and regions of the world, leaving behind hundreds of dead, thousands of injured and missing, and major economic losses in infrastructure, started from the city of Leonrock in Hong Kong with a devastating hurricane that resulted in great economic losses.
The city of Compasso in the southern Philippines was not far from nature's revenge, as its residents woke up on the 11th of last October to the horror of a typhoon that the city had not witnessed before, accompanied by rain and strong thunderstorms, which led to the killing of nine people, the loss of 11 and the evacuation of 1,600 people.
While the city of Compasso was assessing the damage of the hurricane that hit it, Hurricane Rick swept the coast of southern Mexico on October 25 with strong winds of 140 kilometers per hour, destroying properties, uprooting trees and evacuating thousands of residents from their homes, according to Agence France-Presse.
As an unhappy coincidence, on the same difficult day that the cities of the coasts of southern Mexico witnessed, the city of Kansas, in the south of the United States of America, woke up to a hurricane that was considered the most powerful in the city’s history since the fifties of the last century, accompanied by storms and heavy rain that left behind a state of panic and fear among the residents and great damage to homes and properties the public.
The hurricanes dominoes did not stop at the American city of Kansas, but rolled to reach the Italian city of Medican, with a hurricane that struck on the 26th of October, flooding roads and fields and causing landslides that disrupted life in the city and forced the Italian authorities to close and disrupt air transport, according to Reuters.
And the latest scenes of nature’s wrath, and not the last of it, according to researchers, is what the US state of Kentucky and other states has been exposed to.. a natural disaster that was considered the first of its kind in the state in its history, represented by a hurricane, which US President John Biden described as a tragedy beyond imagination, as he turned the state into a ghost city that smells of death in All postponed after the hurricane killed nearly 100 people in an initial statistic, hundreds of missing and thousands of homeless, and losses that extended up to two hundred miles that affected homes, factories, warehouses and public facilities, forcing the US President to declare a state of emergency in the state and deploy teams to search for the bodies of the dead and survivors, if any. .
It seems that nature's revenge will continue in the context of the lack of a real international will to reduce emissions, which was reflected in the failure of the last COP26 climate negotiations, where the disappointments came to the extent of the disaster.