Headline Roundup • August 31st, 2022
Flooding in Pakistan Leaves Over 1,100 Dead, Millions Impacted
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Two months of unprecedented rainfall in Pakistan has resulted in record-breaking flooding, leaving one third of the country underwater, over 1,100 dead and an estimated $10 billion in damage.
The United Nations has issued an appeal for $160 million in emergency funding for the country, and the U.S. has pledged $30 million in humanitarian aid. This comes after an already devastatingly hot year for the agriculture-reliant country. The growing climate challenges in the region have exacerbated pre-existing economic and political strains on Pakistan, which is not equipped to deal with large-scale natural disasters.
One factor that has been prominently featured in coverage from left- and center-rated sources is Pakistan’s small carbon footprint and low contribution to global climate change. In an interview with Newsweek (Center bias), Pakistan’s Envoy to the United States emphasized the climate divide, stating that “throughout 150 years of the Industrial Age, emissions have come from North and the impacts have been in the South.”
The flooding has received far more coverage from left-rated sources than right-rated, aligning with historic bias and media emphasis on climate change. Fox News (Right bias) and The New York Post (Right bias) both reposted a story on the flooding from the Associated Press (Lean Left bias) that used the phrase “climate catastrophe” but not “climate change.”
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Fareed Khan, Associated Press
Flooding from monsoon rain on an unimaginable scale has ravaged Pakistan, leaving more than 1,100 people dead and destroying villages, crops and livestock in a country dependent on agriculture.
The rains, combined with melting glaciers, have unleashed a devastating amount of water.
CNN posted satellite images of a new lake that’s formed — turning part of Sindh Province into an inland lake that’s 62 miles across. More than 3,500 people have been injured.
“One-third of Pakistan is inundated, as floods sweep through the country this summer. The catastrophic floods, resulting...
FIDA HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images
Relentless rains in Pakistan over two months have caused the country's worst flooding in more than a decade. Floodwaters have washed away roads, buildings, and crops. A third of the country, an area about the size of Colorado, is now underwater, according to the country's climate minister.
Officials estimate that more than 33 million Pakistanis — one in seven people in the country — have been affected by the flooding. Two months of consecutive rain have killed 1,191 people as of Wednesday, according to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority.
"Pakistan...
FIDA HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images
As a third of the Islamic Republic of 220 million people lay underwater as a result of the worst floods in the nation's history, Pakistan's envoy to the United Nations revealed to Newsweek a plan to combat the worsening effects of global climate change and prevent future calamities from befalling other nations.
"Today it is Pakistan, tomorrow it could be another country," Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram, told Newsweek, "so we all need to act in solidarity and find collective ways of how to address this...
