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interlagosed · 2 years

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About to dox myself a little. Please be gentle.

My country, Pakistan, is drowning. A third of Pakistan is at risk of being deluged by massive floods. 1000+ people have been killed, countless others displaced. We have the highest number of glaciers outside the poles, and because of climate change, they’re melting. The knock-on effect is unspeakable—and yet we must speak of it. Tragedy upon tragedy, especially against our poor and most marginalized, and it feels ceaseless.

Pakistan is just one of many countries who will be—who are being—disproportionately affected by climate change. We need international solidarity and we need radical change. Climate change is here, it is happening, it has been happening. The developed world owes developing countries on a moral level; corporations have bloody hands; the neoliberal economic order has stricken us with debts that are choking us; and through it all, we must—cruelly—battle for air against so many other people and causes who deserve equal attention, equal outrage, equal concern. That is not the world we deserve. That is not the world that will save us from climate change. We need to reimagine what a just world will look like. We need to build global, truly global, solidarity. And in the meantime, we need reparations.

If you can, please consider donating to one of these relief efforts.

To learn more:

https://twitter.com/southasiaindex/status/1563185381876842496?s=21&t=FGyKVZQnqv_-eVRO-GnIvQ

https://twitter.com/baytalfann/status/1564185095510032389?s=21&t=FGyKVZQnqv_-eVRO-GnIvQ

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/damage-to-main-roads-hampers-pakistan-flood-relief-effort

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/pakistan-floods-plea-for-help-amid-fears-monsoon-could-put-a-third-of-country-underwater

https://www.dawn.com/news/1707372/death-toll-reaches-1136-across-country-as-flood-threat-lingers-in-kp

Remember: Laws will not save the world; people will save the world.

#Pakistan #Pakistan floods #signal boost

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lam-ila · 2 years

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There are over 33 million people affected by floods in Pakistan with at least 1000 people killed and over 180,000 people displaced. Please, if you are able to, donate to help and if you’re not able to donate, please reblog this.

https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/ (Has a lot of information about the floods and is also a trusted place you can donate to)

#pakistan #pakistan floods #climate change #signal boost #please donate if you can #reblog is appreciated

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danishrizvi · 2 years

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Climate change is not a threat, it's a lived reality in Pakistan. Pakistan is paying a heavy price for climate change, even though it only contributes 1% of all global carbon emissions.

More than 33 million people have been affected by the devastating floods across Pakistan. Over 1200 people have been killed and 200k+ homes have been destroyed so far.

#climate crisis #climate change #pakistan floods #global warming

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barnesandco · 2 years

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My country, Pakistan,

is one-thirds underwater and over 30 million people have been displaced, the largest amount since partition. Over 1000 people have died, hundreds of them children. Countless more are left without shelter, food, water, and healthcare. The climate disaster is real and achingly tragic, right in front of my eyes. It's swallowing my country up and I don't know when it will stop. Even when the flooding stops, its consequences won't be over. People have lost their homes, their loved ones, their livelihoods. Pakistan is doing its best which is not even close to enough, so donations are much needed.

Personally, I am not donating to any politically-affiliated flood relief funds, and given the political corruption in this country, I advise others against it. But there are good people, good charities and NGOs doing their best to mitigate the effects. They are on the ground (and in the water) delivering crucial aid to those that need it. It's important to note that at the time of writing, 1 USD = 220 PKR, which buys a lot more than you know, so every dollar really does count. Here is are some trustworthy organizations that I recommend, if you can contribute:

1. Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan

2. Doctors Without Borders Pakistan

3. Pakistan Red Crescent

If you can, please donate whatever possible. If not, please signal boost, and keep Pakistan in your prayers. Thank you ❤️

#pakistan #flooding #climate change #signal boost #pakistan floods #climate disaster #natural disaster #charity

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moonawrites · 2 years

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over 34,000 homes have been destroyed, crops, livestock and infrastructure destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people are homeless and will now experience extreme food scarcity in an already crumbling economy. please donate.

#pakistan floods #pakistan #donate

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queen0ftheroses · 2 years

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Links to Pakistani Flood Relief

So there is currently horrifying floods happening in Pakistan right now, and I wanted to share some links for easy donating to some relief orgs helping with the flood relief right, please donate if possible or at least share this around. https://www.muslimaid.org/pakistan-flood-emergency/

https://minhajwelfare.org/pakistanfloods/

https://prcs.org.pk/

#pakistan #pakistani floods #pakistan floods #pakistan flood relief #mutual aid #climate change #my mom immigrated from pakistan #i still have family there #please help if you can

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mywingsareonwheels · 2 years

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Oh for fuck’s sake.

I went to the official UK govt petition site to sign a petition to increase the funding to Pakistan to help with the horrific floods and their after-effects. (Still frankly to an inadequate sum, but, you know. It would help.)

But all the petitions are closed for two weeks as part of the mourning for the queen. So I can’t.

I’m just... I’m neither mourning nor celebrating the death of the queen. I know and love people doing each, but neither is really my style. But this? This complete freezing of *anything* happening in the UK right now, this sudden cutting off of democracy? This makes me so fucking furious.

People in Pakistan are dying right now. It’s a former part of the British Empire and got thoroughly asset-stripped during that time of colonialist horror, and that gives the UK now a massive responsibility towards it, even beyond that we all owe to everyone everywhere. Whatever any of our attitudes to the queen are, priorities are a fucking thing you would fucking think.

I can probably afford a small donation myself to one of the appeals, and will, but just... I hate this. The UK is in crisis. The world is in crisis. People are suffering and dying *RIGHT NOW*. Just pausing our entire country’s everything for two weeks, while spending so much damn money on the mourning and then the celebration of one family, encapsulates everything I hate about Britain.

Meanwhile the BBC is barely reporting on anything non-monarchy-related. FFS.

#bbc critical #pakistan #uk politics #the united kingdom has outlived its usefulness as an institution #oh wait that happened a long time ago #tw colonialism #the queen #tw racism #because let's face it that's exactly why pakistan is getting ignored so widely right now #tw british empire #pakistan floods

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allthecanadianpolitics · 2 years

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The federal government will match donations from Canadians to help the people of Pakistan recover from massive flooding — though the amount of aid it is offering is far smaller than what Ottawa pledged after less-severe flooding in 2010.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that donations made to one of the 12 aid agencies that make up the Humanitarian Coalition will be matched until Sept. 28, to a maximum of $3 million.

Canada will send another $25 million to Pakistan to respond to the flooding and support development projects, in addition to the $5 million the Liberals announced last month.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#pakistan #pakistan floods #Climate change #justin trudeau #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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Pakistani human rights and land defender Ayisha Siddiqa was set to give a speech on November 17 at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. However, when it was her turn to take the mic, she instead said, ‘I was intending to come here and share with you facts and data, and the stories of the women who have had to give birth in flood zones, of the ancestors whose graves have drowned, and I don’t think that’s what people need to hear right now.’ Siddiqa then went on to deliver a powerful poem which read in part, ‘I tell you that even our dead have drowned in their graves, and you ask me to be polite. You ask me not to blame or shame, and remember the color of my skin, the sound of my tongue, and my place in your world.’

https://unfccc-events.azureedge.net/COP27_87768/agenda

#Ayisha Siddiqa #pakistan #pakistan floods #climate change #climate action #climate activism #poem #poetry #video #COP27

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christiansdior · 2 years

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https://gofund.me/a5236784

hey my friend created this gofundme for helping those displaced by the floods in pakistan! it would mean a lot if y’all shared and/or donated, every little bit counts :)

#pakistan #pakistan floods #please boost

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belle-keys · 2 years

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what's going on in pakistan right now is unimaginable for many of us it's horrid and pakistanis are receiving negligible aid even when 30 million people are displaced fgs

#pakistan #pakistani #flooding #pakistan floods #monsoon #south asia #muslim #psa #signal boost #world news #humanitarian crisis #climate change

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lam-ila · 2 years

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[image description: a screenshot of a tweet that reads “1/3 of Pakistan is currently underwater. The nation is facing far more than a national emergency, but a human catastrophe. If Pakistan were in Europe or North America - the whole world would be galvanized to help the 40 million facing death, disease, and disasters. /end ID]

#pakistan #pakistan floods #signal boost #climate change

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1989nihil · 2 years

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y’all if I could ask you to at least spread this, that would be much appreciated.

!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

#Pakistan #Pakistan Floods

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notwiselybuttoowell · 2 years

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In flood-stricken Pakistan, where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archaeological site dating back 4,500 years.

The ruins of Mohenjo-daro, located in southern Sindh province near the Indus River, and a Unesco world heritage site, are considered among the best preserved urban settlements in south Asia. They were discovered in 1922, and mystery still surrounds the disappearance of its civilisation, which coincided with those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The recent flooding has not directly hit Mohenjo-daro but the record-breaking rains have inflicted damage on the ruins, said Ahsan Abbasi, the site’s curator. “Several big walls which were built nearly 5,000 years ago have collapsed because of the monsoon rains,” Abbasi said.

He said dozens of construction workers under the supervision of archaeologists had started the repair work. Abbasi did not give an estimated cost of the damage.

The site’s landmark “Buddhist stupa”, a large hemispherical structure associated with worship, meditation and burial, remains intact, Abbasi said. But the downpours have damaged some outer walls and also some larger walls separating individual rooms or chambers.

Abbasi said the civilisation at Mohenjo-daro, also known as “Mound of the Dead” in the local Sindhi language, built an elaborate drainage system, which had been critical in flooding in the past.

#mohenjodaro #mohenjo daro #Pakistan #archeology #world history #monsoons #pakistan floods #climate change

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redvelvetwishtree · 2 years

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Pakistan with less than 1% (?) of global emissions is facing one of the worst floods it has seen but I guess the countries actually responsible for messing up our climate should focus on hyping up gReTa thUnBerG and holding pointless ass seminars and fly in climate eXpErTs to give useless talks and everyone should feel very woke about it.

It just makes me so mad how those actually responsible don't care about anything but will lecture the entire world about how to live their lives and cancel anyone who finds greta thunberg cringe and pointlessly hyped and judge the heck out of asian societies for living together as families while everyone in their countries lives alone with their own separate energy consumptions and carbon footprintd coz iNdEpEnDeNce and whatever other random shit they believe that they do right and everyone else does wrong.

I really can't wait for people to stop taking America and western countries and societies seriously as if they are the authority on climate change, world peace, political correctness, w0kEness, and whatever else they lecture us on.

#I'm not talking about them doing anything for aid or donations cos that can be arranged locally too #it's just their hypocritical obnoxious and overbearing attitude about everything #both the governments and the people #i still don't know why that girl was hyped so much for skipping school and giving speeches here and there #i also still don't know what all those seminars and ebooks and climate change reports that they do every year have helped us with #everything is so pointless #climate change #Pakistan #Pakistan floods

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bumblebeeappletree · 1 year

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The people and industries of the world's richest countries have done the most to heat the planet. But they're terrified of being held liable for extreme weather they've made more violent. Meanwhile, the poorest can't afford to pay for the consequences of other people's pollution. So should the rich world be paying for climate damages – and what's the best way to do so?

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