Under water and stone

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August 30, 2022

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

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2 responses to “Under water and stone”

Lady Mondegreen

Aug 30, 2022 3:45 PM

50 MILLION displaced.

Hard to comprehend, indeed.
Mike Haubrich

Aug 31, 2022 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.

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