Um, I really hope I’m incorrect on this but is the green bit that has flooded fertile farmland next to a river? I’m asking if a famine will be a down stream result of this catastrophe.
I don't know the area, but if the climate allows it, their best bet could be to rely on edible aquatic crops that typically grow very fast. Lotus rhizomes are edible, same as Typha stems or the seeds rich on starch of Trapa bicornis that taste like sweet chestnuts. Must be cooked to remove their toxins (and eventual parasites) before eaten.
There was already a secular trend of Pakistan having to import ever-larger amounts of food[1].
Unfortunately the minute Putin invaded Ukraine, we saw one of the world's breadbaskets invade another of the world's breadbaskets and the West lost its mind with sanctions. The EU's reaction is "we'll do whatever it takes" which is a nice way of saying "we'll out-bid everyone else for food and energy". From that moment, most of Africa and many Asian countries were condemned by the West to face famines - just so Europe wouldn't face the total consequences of its own sanctions. Pakistan is one of the countries that will be out-bid by the EU.
Pakistan was already expected to raise imports before this flood[2]. I cannot imagine how bad it's going to be now that they have the confluence of terrible flooding and, Putin and the EU exporting famine to much of the world.
Everyone that can should consider donating to Pakistani aid.
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[1] https://www.dawn.com/news/1630378
[2] https://www.world-grain.com/articles/17140-pakistan-expected...
Perhaps use "US" instead of "EU", it works better on the morons believing Russian garbage.
In any case, do you think if Pakistan said "We join the EU/US in sanctioning Russia", they'd be getting extra help from the EU/US at the moment? I like the EU but they seem to have been running around in internal panic themselves, they're not going to give a crap about Pakistan...
Exactly. Russia is a pariah state for the EU, but the EU does not treat states trading with it as pariah states.
From the article
https://time.com/6209889/pakistan-food-floods/
tl;dr: This will lead to rice and cotton shortages, compounding this year's wheat shortages (climate, Putin) and olive / sunflower oil shortages (Spain's megadrought).
Last week a woman was caught starting a wildfire in Galicia by a police after seven wildfires occur in the same area.
Environmental terrorism... and maybe even economic sabotage.
If there is a team of puppets, there must be a puppeteer somewhere. Right?. We had a interesting high number of events targeting tourism. More than 6000 wildfires with many very big wildfires in categories rarely seen before, several train sabotages (optic fiber stolen for no reason, and a train exiting from a tunnel directly into a wildfire) in a country with an economy based in tourism. A high number of wildfires also in France, Portugal and Romania but Spain suffered the bulk of the attacks.
[1] I don't think that the mega prefix is justified still