 You just watched some of the destruction caused by catastrophic flooding taking place all across Pakistan and currently 33% of the country is experiencing flooding and tens of millions of citizens have been displaced as a result of flooding. We're looking at a humanitarian disaster on a massive scale and to really put things into perspective I want to look at some satellite images taken on August 28th that really capture the sheer enormity of the flooding. This is courtesy of Axios. So as you can see here these are village fields in Rajanpur and these were taken by Maxar and you can see the village before flooding and then after flooding the entire village is nearly submerged with water coming up to the buildings. And now here's another look at fields in Rajanpur just completely devastating on an unfathomable scale. Now this was the Indus River before and after flooding as you can see massive difference. Now finally these are fields and homes along the Indus River in Rajan and it's been a catastrophe needless to say and I just want to emphasize this is an ongoing disaster and this is a climate change induced disaster. Now for more details we go to common dreams where Julia Conley explains with hundreds of thousands of people displaced more than four million crops destroyed and nearly a million homes demolished or severely damaged Pakistani officials and rights campaigners on Monday called for a major international aid push following flooding throughout the country fueled by the fossil fuel driven climate emergency and an unprecedented season of monsoon rains. More than 30 million people are in urgent need of help. The international rescue committee said after conducting a rapid needs assessment three days after the Pakistani government declared the flooding which has killed more than 1000 people a national emergency. Both the IRC and government officials have explicitly linked the flooding to the climate crisis with IRC country director Shabnam Balik noting despite producing less than 1% of the world's carbon footprint the country is suffering the consequences of the world's inaction and stays in the top 10% countries facing the consequences. Amid a monsoon season which has so far seen 784% and 500% more rains than average in Sindh and Balochistan provinces respectively the IRC is anticipating a sharp rise in food and security as 71% of Pakistani surveyed by the group are already without access to sufficient clean drinking water. So to say that the situation is bad is an understatement. Now here's some facts these are just preliminary statistics all subject to change these are estimates so take all of them with the grain of salt by the time that you see this video these will likely have been revised but here's what we know so far as the article pointed out more than 1000 people have been killed. I believe the current estimate is around 1400 but again that's just an approximation take that with the grain of salt over 30 million people have been displaced the highest estimate that I've seen is 50 million when you consider that the total population of Pakistan is 226 million as of 2020 we're looking at almost a quarter of their entire population being displaced imagine how many people this affected it's just it's hard to grasp how bad this is as I stated earlier 33% of the entire country has been flooded 63% of pregnant and lactating women are considered extremely vulnerable 40% of people don't have access to critical health care which is something that is a necessity at this time considering the fact that IRC reports that they're seeing increase in skin infections malaria and cases of people having diarrhea so it's it's bad now I want to go to a statement from Pakistanis climate minister because what they say is really important Pakistani climate minister Sherry Raymond did not mince words Monday as she pointed out the link between the climate crisis and the suffering of the tens of millions of people directly affected by the flooding quote this is very far from a normal monsoon season it is a climate dystopia at our doorstep remnant told agents France press we are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events in an unrelenting cascade of heat waves forest fires flash floods multiple glacial lake outbursts flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking nonstop havoc throughout the country and she's absolutely correct now the problem is that things like this extreme weather events are going to get a lot worse especially considering a study that was released on Monday which essentially states that the rise of ocean sea levels is accelerating the Washington Post explains human driven climate change has set in motion massive ice losses in Greenland that couldn't be halted even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today according to a study published Monday the findings in the journal Nature climate change project that it is now inevitable that 3.3% of the Greenland ice sheet will melt equal to 110 trillion tons of ice the researchers said that will trigger nearly a foot of global sea level rise so what we're seeing in Pakistan this is just the beginning it's going to get worse so when their climate minister says that this is a climate induced dystopia they're absolutely correct about that and as the common dreams article stated they are responsible for 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions but countries that have benefited from industrialization and emitting the most CO2 like the United States I think we bear a lot of responsibility for this so we absolutely should be sending them aid and doing what we can to assist them because again this is a humanitarian crisis on a huge huge scale and it's just I don't know what to say about this it's it's not like this is a one-off event where you can say wow this is unfortunate but thankfully this isn't very frequent unfortunately this is going to be a common phenomenon in our climate dystopian future now if you want to take action and help I'm going to link you to the International Rescue Committee where you can donate and thank you to Emo Dragon on Twitter for recommending this organization they're going to need all the help that they can get so if you can chip in a buck or two then that will be much appreciated I'm sure so that's where we're at where now in this day and age you can no longer deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change it's right here and it's affecting people in a substantial way so anyone currently who still is denying the reality of climate change like Tucker Carlson who just did that the other day on his program who said global cooling is the real issue these people now are enemies of humanity they don't care about the suffering and as the Washington Post article citing that nature climate change study pointed out even if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions today we're still going to see the sea level rise so what we've done is irreparable harm to our planet the best that we can do now at this state is try to mitigate some of the damage but we're still not taking this seriously thankfully the Democratic Party just passed the Inflation Reduction Act which does provide funding to invest in clean green technology the problem is that we're still not taking this seriously when we see goals about reducing you know greenhouse gas emissions to 2005 levels 40% of 2005 levels whatever that may be we need to stop emitting greenhouse gas now like yesterday but we were not doing that and that's just at this point in time it's not going to happen so if we're not going to take action then we have to assist the countries and the islands that are going to experience this because it's going to be devastating it is literally going to kill countless people so if we're not going to do anything we at least need to take responsibility and assist them and provide them with immediate aid because this cannot stand we cannot just allow them to suffer and do nothing when they didn't contribute as much as we did to this current crisis I mean they barely contributed comparatively speaking so we've got to do what we can to help them and the US government needs to take action right now