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Is Pakistan Facing an Extreme Climate Crisis?

  It’s not a natural disaster. It’s not a torment. It’s a climate emergency. It’s climate injustice. It’s a matter of accountability, power, and management.   What is happening in the country? Pakistan is experiencing its worst monsoon floods in a decade, resulting in an escalated humanitarian clash, with one-third of the nation under water – a MAJOR Climate Crisis.   The humanitarian conditions in Pakistan have further crumbled over the past few weeks as the country faced one of its worst rain spells, which lead to a substantial increase in flooding, followed by massive destruction of property, livestock, and crops, along with landslides in the northern areas, immense human deracination, and a great number of casualties.   This has called for a climate emergency in the state as the communities and infrastructure are unable to subsist with the ongoing catastrophic floods and heavy rains.   Wasn’t Climate Chaos a future thing for Pakistan? The scenarios for the future of c