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Under water and stone

Aug 30th, 2022 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Also the floods in Pakistan aren’t just “floods” – that is, not just expanses of water or torrents of water. They’re torrents of ROCK. Take a look.

Hard to comprehend the scale of the flood disaster in Pakistan, the 5th most populated nation in the world.

Nearly 1400 dead, 1 million houses damaged or destroyed, and 50,000,000 people displaced.

1/3 of the country is underwater.pic.twitter.com/NFd15q3g7I

— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) August 30, 2022

2 Responses to “Under water and stone”

#1
Lady Mondegreen
August 30, 2022 at 3:45 pm

50 MILLION displaced.

Hard to comprehend, indeed.
#2
Mike Haubrich
August 31, 2022 at 4:06 am

And at the same time the Yangtze is drying up due to drought.

I get this existential dread more often these days, and I have a hard time describing what it is to see the way that the world is turning. In what should be an age of prosperity, there is an age of destruction.