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Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains take refuge in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the world for help for cash-strapped Pakistan after arriving in the country Friday to see the climate-induced devastation from months of deadly record floods.Opinion: Why help Pakistan when we can’t handle flooding at home?
” : The recent devastating flood in Pakistan has impacted at least 33 million people and caused a loss of $10 billion to this country. Pakistan contributes less than 1 percent to global warming but is considered one of the top 10 countries in the world most vulnerable to the consequences of global warming and climate change. This requires our empathy as one of the most advanced countries in the world and one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gases. Reps.
,” : As someone who spent three years overseas in a foreign aid capacity, I was taken aback by the gist of Farzana Bari’s op-ed, which implies that the global community is somehow responsible for the country’s current misfortunes and/or for providing massive amounts of aid to ameliorate the situation.
Such a response is not unlike our own local and state officials’ entreaties to the federal government, when massive flooding events such as Hurricane Harvey descend on the Houston area. In both instances, those whoabout it, are asking the rest of society to bail them out — either from their ineptitude, their complicity with others or just their plain indifference. They seek to blame or shame others.
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