Awaam
Mehwish Mushtaq
In this series of blogs we will address the issue of Climate change, how it has come to pass, what are its consequence, what can be done to avert those, what is being and one and who is doing what. We will also look at the potential problems Pakistan may face and their impact on our social and national fabric.
Climate change has come to be one of the most defining problems of our time. Without any doubt, it is the biggest existential threat faced by human being in the 21st century. Despite this stark reality Climate change continues to be misunderstood and understated. It has still failed to register properly in the global human consciousness, let alone dominate it as it should.
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Climate change and the threats it pose to the human beings, particularly those living in the poor countries, is going to define what happens in this century, to human kind. Not terrorism, not fundamentalism and not extremisms. If anything, it is the climate change terrorism, perpetrated by Climate change deniers (read fundamentalists) and those responsible for creating this catastrophe (read extremists), that will be responsible for most socio-politico-economic changes in the 21st century. Not the religious terrorism that rules the roost over the airwaves for the moment. Continue reading
As many as 58 per cent children in the country cannot read a sentence in Urdu or in their regional language. – File Photo
