Weekend Sky #72 – Sep 3rd

The worst is just warming up!

More than one-third of my beloved country Pakistan is currently submerged.

The effects of heavier monsoon rains across the country from the month of June to August, along with melting glaciers from mountain ranges of Himalaya and Karakoram, that followed the most severe heat wave in the country since 1901, has caused damages of unimaginable proportions.

More than 33 million people of my country are affected directly by this catastrophe, which has not only destroyed houses and agricultural properties, but also taken taken lives of more than 1200 people, including children.

More than 700,000 livestock have been killed by this disaster, which has also damaged infrastructures across the country. Highways, bridges, railway tracks, schools, hospitals, clinics are either damaged or destroyed across flood-affected areas.

People, who owned acres of agricultural fields of crops, fruits and vegetables, are now homeless and living in tents.

The impact of this disaster will not fade away so quickly. Acres of agricultural fields, which are the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, are now submerged and there’s no enough leftover dry area in the country to pump the water out from those fields.

All of this and much more worse are over the horizon for the people of my beloved Pakistan.

We are suffering the severe impacts of world’s greenhouse gas emissions, despite contributing less than 1% in it. An estimated 1 million houses, which were destroyed by the floods, had residents with a very low carbon footprint compared to the average American or European citizen.

How much time would my beloved country need for recovery, there’s no answer for that.

But help is already reaching those who are in need. Countless charity organizations, both local and international, are sending relief goods in the areas effected by the disaster. Several countries are also sending humanitarian assistance.

As for the rest of the world: consider what has happened and happening in Pakistan as Exhibit A, courtesy of back-to-back extreme weather conditions due to human-caused global warming!

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Earlier today, while watching the news of TV about the disaster, I thought about sharing some video clips and pictures on this episode of Weekend Sky but I didn’t opted for it.

I then recalled about 2020’s monsoon season, which was also a heavy one for my city, Karachi.

I took this photo from my rooftop on an August afternoon, right before a 3+ hours of showers.

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Here the posts for Weekend Sky episode #71, as shared by the fellow bloggers:

• Another Globe Eater – Life In Thin Air
• 5 Minutes Ago – 20 August – bushboys world
• WES-71-August-20 – Platypus Lady
• Clouds and hope of rain – pictures imperfect blog
• Clear Skies at the Canal — Weekend Sky #71 – Photos by Jez
• In the morning light – Philosophy Through Photography 
• Weekend Sky 71 – Pensitivity101
• Weekend Sky | Lins Doodles
• Weekend Sky #71, Aug 20 – For the Love of 
• Continental Views – Living Between Two Realms
• Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Is #Mustard a Color or a Condiment? – Second Wind Leisure Perspectives
• Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2022 Week 33 | XingfuMama
• Setting Sun ~ Weekend Sky #71 | Hourglass Poetry
• Weekend Sky | A Day In The Life
• Lodgepole Pine – Sgeoil
• Weekend sky – nowathome
• Hakodate, Japan: Twinkle, Twinkle, Big Port City – SPACE STORIES BY GIFT
• Hammad’s Weekend Sky Challenge #71 – Beautiful Photographs
• WQW #33: Dirty Jobs and August in the Rear View Mirror – Marsha Ingrao – Always Write

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I’m looking forward to see nature’s most majestic wonder from your part of world.

Wishing you a lovely weekend!