Thread by @chilledasad100

🧵I feel like a bloody broken record - #Pakistanflood is climate apartheid we have warned about for decades – the rich use their wealth to seek safety and leave the poor in the South to burn/drown. 1/3 of Pakistan under water, 1000+ lives lost, homes, schools, hospitals & gone.

https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1523223572696936455

It's a toxic interplay between climate, hunger, structural inequality & a rigged global economic system that has left the poor hanging by a thread and states overwhelmed so the wealthy can continue to profit. Its not new record breaking heatwaves and floods are the new reality

How do people recover from a never-ending crisis in a country where many are already barely surviving- 70% of Pakistan popln don’t have access to proper nutrition, 1 in 3 of the population is in extreme poverty. When the poor say they have lost everything they mean everything

Its not just the extreme heat and then the torrential rain whilst overall Pakistan accounts for just 1% of global emissions it’s structural economic inequalities that have left it with 100s of billion in debt & unable to pay 6.5 billion in debt to the IMF over the next 3 years.

And its going to get worse Pakistan has 7000 glaciers -more than any other country in the world. As temp rise, 2/3 of the glaciers will melt & lakes overflow from torrential rain. Today it's floods, in the future it will be the lack of fresh water keeping 100s of millions alive.

And of course its not just Pakistan – right at this moment in the Horn of Africa –
We have the 5th consecutive year of drought – the longest for 40 years.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia – estimate that 50 million people face acute hunger.
We are now in the era of climate famines

At just over 1c warming we are facing climate catastrophe in every corner of the world & no matter what we do now those impacts are irreversible. What we can do is stop making it worse. But are we? You know the answer - we are heading to a warming of 2.7c

To stop a breach of the 1.5c guardrail when these extreme weather events spiral out of control – rich countries must be at zero emissions by 2030 with the rest at zero by 2050. If that isn't our goal then be honest & say you don't believe in climate justice!

Target the climate criminals - the richest countries who are ramping up a massive new wave of fossil fuels (USA, UK, Canada, Australia & EU). It’s a bonanza for the fossil fuel companies -who made $2 trillion in profit & are openly betting that they can bank trillions more.

Whilst Boris & Biden offer pennies in 'humanitarian aid' - remember they still havent even met the $100 billion goal from 13 years ago, let alone the trillions now needed. They continue to block Loss & Damage because they dont want to be liable for the damages they have caused.

& yes there is a #CostOfLivingCrises - but its global & solving the cost of living crisis can go hand in hand in acting on climate & inequality. And it cant sacrifice the global South to protect workers in the global North. Our demands have to be global as well as national.