Posted on 10/10/2022 10:20:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DADU, Pakistan (AP) — Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The 12-year-old girl’s family home is destroyed, as is the school that she loved. The friends she used to walk to school and play with are scattered, finding refuge elsewhere.
The destruction has intensified the debate over a question of climate justice: Whether rich countries whose emissions have been the main driver of climate change owe compensation for the damage that change is inflicting on poor countries like Pakistan.
It’s an idea that developed nations have repeatedly rejected, but Pakistan and other developing countries are pushing for it to be seriously discussed at COP27, next month’s international climate conference in Egypt.
At least 1,300 people were killed, and 33 million people in Pakistan have been affected.
Pakistan, which contributed only 0.8% to the world’s emissions, now faces damages estimated at more than $30 billion, more than 10% of its GDP.
“These 33 million Pakistanis are paying in the form of their lives and livelihoods for the industrialization of bigger countries,” Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilwal Bhutto-Zardari said.
Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman went further, saying rich nations owe reparations to countries hit by climate disasters.
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Gibs-me-dat MONEY!
No
Your move
Should China, Russia and India be responsible for the damage in Florida?
Maybe if these first cousin marrying savages concentrated on education, they could fix their own problems.
Just another shakedown from more useless non whites.
But we're somehow supposed to believe that not only we created the Modern Warm Period, but also that it's somehow a bad thing. LOL
AP= nonsense
Nothing to do with the burning of natural flatulence gas.
You are a denier.
To the gulag for you.
Oh, first flood in recorded history?
Go hold your grubby little hat in front of those countries and see how much cash they toss your way.
And here I thought some of the world’s largest glaciers, discounting Antarctica, were in the north of Pakistan...
So that’s where the one from Yosemite went. They want it back.
You want a reason to vote against the Corporate Class Republicans? This is a really good one.
Is it still on fire?
Amazing how money is always the “cure” for Climate Change.
Is the US Taxpayer on the hook for this?
PBUH
Ass-ociated Press.
Wait until Noah shows up with a detailed time sheet.
At least Pakistan is still there, Doggerland was not so fortunate.
If people are familiar with the Palouse mega-floods at the end of the glacial maximum, that would be some sort of bill also.
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