Essay by Eric Worrall
Ask for a climate fix? According to the World Economic Forum, Sukkur Barragea diversion dam built in England has unexpectedly withstood recent floods and saved many lives, although many decades forgottenis a scar of Pakistan’s colonial past.
What does colonialism have to do with climate change?
September 9, 2022
John Letzing
Digital Editor, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic ForumMinji Sung
Data Image and Content Specialist, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic ForumFlooding in Pakistan has revived the relationship between the colonial past and the current climate crisis.
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When the flood amplification due to climate change began to engulf almost a third of the area of Pakistan recently, a relic of the country’s colonial past stand in the middle flood and hundreds of thousands of people: Sukkur Barrage.
It is not certain that the diversion dam is 90 years old, once technical victory designed by local British rulers but since cited for safety issues and is described as “rotten”, Will last – making it a potentially fatal burden and a symbol of corrosive substance collide of colonialism in much of the world.
Dams holdthough Pakistan’s “Monsoon on steroids“. Other results are less fortunate. German non-profit organization list Among the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events related to climate change during the first two decades of this century, including eight former colonies (one technically Art is not a country and remains a territory of the United States sometimes described as a colony).
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The British Rajincluding present-day Pakistan, is not the only historical example of a exploitation colonial presence.
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A means of resolving disparities is possible through indemnify.
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Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/colonialism-climate-change-pakistan-floods/
Because the dam was built 90 years ago, and it has 75 years since the fall of the British RajI suggest it may be time for the Pakistani government to take up the flood management option and proceed with their own dam construction and repair.
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