Friday 6 August 2010

The floods in Pakistan

I started this blog because I wanted to comment on things that are in the news. There is one story right no that is particularly distressing, and that is what is happening with the Pakistan flood. The worse floods that they have ever seen have absolutely wrecked the place - call me cynical but I think that stuff like this pretty much matches the description of climate change. If you a 'climate skeptic' here is another example Russia's terrible drought destroying their wheat crop.

What has happened is far more than a natural disaster. The problems that Pakistan faced after the earthquake were one thing, you can't after all predict when an earthquake will hit. There was plenty of warning of the heavy rains, but there still was not proper preparation. Their is a lot of anger in Pakistan directed at the government who can spend who knows how much on nuclear weapons but can't protect their citizens from the elements. One thing is for sure, the 4 million who are in the brown and smelly stuff can't rely on their government to help them - that is why the rest of the world need to make Pakistan flood donations.

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