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1.8 Billion People Face Once in a Century Flooding
by Tara Yarlagadda
June 28, 2022
Introduction:
(Inverse) SOBERING IMAGES FROM NORTHEASTERN INDIA and Bangladesh this past month show the toll that historic flooding has caused the region. The extreme weather has killed more than 100 people and left 9.5 million more without food or drinking water.
But these 9.5 million individuals are only a fraction of the global population who are likely to face unprecedented flooding, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The research reveals a disturbing figure: 1.81 billion people globally are “directly exposed” to one-in-a-hundred-year floods — a risk that will only worsen as global warming increases the likelihood of extreme flooding.
Thomas McDermott, a lecturer in the economics of climate change at the National University of Ireland Galway, tells Inverse the findings are “quite surprising — in fact shocking.” McDermott is not affiliated with the study but authored a Nature Communications article commenting on the research.
WHAT’S NEW — According to the study, 1.8 billion people, or 23 percent of the world’s population, live in areas exposed to a half-foot of water level rise during once-in-a-century flooding. It’s a figure far higher than previous research suggested.
“In other words, considering a global population of 7.9 billion, almost one in four of the world’s people are exposed to significant flood risk,” writes the study’s authors.
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https://www.inverse.com/science/18-bil ... worldwide
What god is capable of is truly mindblowing. Praying for these people!
While I'm a Christian myself (of the lax, lacking, never praying or going to church mold), this isn't anything that God has wrought - this is the doings of Man. We are to blame for the climate we have now, not Him. We kept pumping carbon into the air, either believing the lies of the oil companies and car makers and their pocketed conservatives, that piddily little Humanity couldn't affect His climate, that we're too small and the earth too big - and think of all those poor coal miners in coal country! Why, they're too illiterate to learn to install something as complex as solar panels and wind turbines, won't someone please think of the coal miners? And over time they built it up into a political issue, and even a religious issue, just for their own profit! Generations of conservatives have turned their backs on science because it's been framed by these charlatans as some affront to God, decency, and all the hard working "little people" to think we could impact the climate, or do anything about it.
Or worse - we didn't believe the lies they told, yet still ignored the cries of the science because it was just more "convenient" to do so.
This is the one time Christians and Atheists should be in sound agreement - God had nothing to do with this fresh hell on earth. That Man still wants to deny his part in the new world we've burned out for ourselves is astounding. Sure, there we're always going to be floods and droughts and wildfires and hurricanes - but the ramping up in frequency and intensity of all these disasters lies at our own coal and oil stained hands. Once I had assumed the only natural disasters not worsened by our actions was the geologic processes of the earth itself, earthquakes and volcanoes - but thanks to fracking even that sole comfort has been flung in high doubt. If we Christians are right, then God's still in His Heaven, probably wondering why we took it upon ourselves to jumpstart Armageddon on our own without Him.