A man pulls his animals while others go to salvage their belongings amid rising flood water, following rains and floods during the monsoon season on the outskirts of Bhan Syedabad, Pakistan September
8, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RC21DW9M2HCMWith roughly 32 million people displaced, more than 1,300 killed and nearly a third of the country still underwater following a monsoon season super-charged by climate change, Pakistan is offering a grim case study of the potential consequences of rising global temperatures.
, it is also covering farmland, wiping out cotton and rice crops, two of Pakistan's top exports, and preventing farmers from planting fall wheat, which helps feed the population of more than 220 million. Since last month, the flooding has disrupted the education of approximately 3.5 million children in Pakistan, the United Nations said late last week. Pakistan's economy, which was already suffering due to debt and, is expected to face an even greater test in the months ahead as food shortages are predicted and the estimates for the total financial losses from the flooding near $30 billion.