Damascus-SANA
At a time when the world is heading with its eyes closed towards climate catastrophes with ominous consequences as a result of climate warming and its devastating effects on the earth, as happens in the unprecedented floods and torrents that sweep through Pakistan, claiming hundreds of lives and destroying property and infrastructure significantly, the major economies, especially the American and European ones, continue to increase their emissions of gases The greenhouse effect, especially after the reversal of the sanctions it imposed on Russia, in terms of energy security and the economy.
The warnings issued by the United Nations last March are now visible to everyone in Pakistan and elsewhere, where they affirmed that the current commitments of countries will lead to a “catastrophic” warming of 2.7 degrees Celsius, which will lead to a doubling of heat waves, droughts, storms and devastating floods. Greenhouse gases.
Today, the devastating effects of warming are embodied in the catastrophic floods and torrential rains that have been witnessed in areas in Pakistan since mid-June until today, which have claimed the lives of 1,290 people, injured more than 12588, damaged about 33 million people, destroyed 1,468,019 homes and killed an estimated 736,459 head of livestock, according to a toll issued yesterday. Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, according to Xinhua.
What was stated in the report of the National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan was confirmed today by a statement of the World Health Organization that the unprecedented floods that swept areas in Pakistan affected more than 33 million people, including 6.4 million in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and more than 1460 health facilities, including 432 completely destroyed and 1,028 Partially warning that access to health care facilities and essential medical supplies is severely limited.
In the face of these heavy losses, the Pakistani government requested international assistance to combat the deadly damage, after a state of emergency was declared in the country against the background of warnings issued by the National Disaster Management Authority in Pakistan, warning of floods with a very high water level and above the level in the Kabul River in Nowshera district in Khyber Province. Pakhtunkhwa, northwest of the country, and fears that the Indus River in Kalabagh and Chashma districts of eastern Punjab province may witness flood levels from high to very high, Xinhua reported.
The disasters that are happening today were warned by a report of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction last April, stressing that over the next two decades the world will witness between 350 and 500 disasters annually, which is five times more than the average during the previous three decades. Climate change and the failure of the major industrialized countries to take a step forward in this context, that catastrophic events caused by drought, extreme temperatures and devastating floods will occur more frequently in the future, and that by 2030 the world will face 560 disasters every year, an average of 1.5 disasters per day.
Ignoring the risks that the United Nations warned of came at a heavy price, as the report concluded that disasters around the world have cost nearly $170 billion annually over the past decade, with most disasters occurring in low-income countries, which lose an average of 1 percent of their GDP. Due to disasters annually, compared to just 0.1 percent in the richest and most polluting countries, the Asia and Pacific regions had the most “lucky” losses.
As the major industrialized countries continue to ignore the imminent danger posed by climate change and the deliberate disregard for its disasters, especially after Europe fully returned to fossil fuels and coal as a result of the sanctions they imposed on Russia and the reversal of those sanctions on it, the whole world has effectively become financing its own destruction with a bill paid by developing countries as a tax of the major industrialized countries.
Fahmy El Shaarawy
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