Analyser: Stora värden på spel när klimatet förändras
Archive image. Evacuation of tourists on Rhodes in July. Ian Murison / AP
The climate threat|Global challenges
Analysis: Big values at stake as the climate changes
The natural disasters have succeeded each other this summer. And several countries have fought against rampant forest fires – not least Canada, Greece, the USA and Spain.
German Der Spiegel states that the explanation for the fires is a direct consequence of climate change. The newspaper asks a long series of questions about how society will be able to meet the future challenges that it brings. Mainly: "How should the areas that are particularly vulnerable be able to protect themselves?"
Great values are at stake, notes the newspaper. Global tourism has a turnover of 100,000 billion - but what happens to that income when the conditions are put on hold? The question is put to Niklas Völkening, researcher in human geography, who answers rhetorically:
“No one wants to walk through a dead forest or through a flooded city. You cannot swim in stormy seas or ski if there is no snow”.
Jonathan Jeppsson, news columnist at Aftonbladet, says in a column that the world's reactions seem increasingly blasé. And that at a time when it is perhaps more important than ever to act.
"It strikes me that there are soon only six years left until 2030," he writes. "But instead, it now seems that carbon dioxide emissions will be 15 percent higher in 2030 than they were in 2010."
The monsoon rains in South Asia
100,000 evacuated after floods in Pakistan
Close to 100,000 people have been evacuated after major floods in Pakistan, AFP reports. Hundreds of villages and large tracts of farmland in Punjab province have been submerged since the Sutlej River flooded on Sunday.
According to the head of the Punjab administration, Mohsin Naqvi, monsoon rains have prompted authorities in India to release excess reservoir water into the Sutlej River, causing major flooding downstream on the Pakistani side of the border.
The rescue agency warns that the coming monsoon rains may worsen the floods further in the near future.
Image from the brother race. ZoramthangaCM on X.
Railway bridge collapses in India – at least 26 dead
In India, at least 26 people have died after a railway bridge under construction collapsed, writes the Indian Express. The accident reportedly occurred near the Sairang area of Mirzoram. Several people are suspected of being caught in the bridge collapse because at least 35 construction workers were on the scene when the accident occurred on Wednesday morning, according to the police.
“Pained by the bridge accident in Mizoram. Condolences to those who have lost loved ones. May the injured recover soon," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Picture from the rescue operation. AP
The miracle rescue in Pakistan
Stuck 275 meters up for 16 hours: "Terrified"
For 16 hours, eight people were stuck in a broken cableway 275 meters above the ground in Pakistan. But after a unique and difficult rescue effort, where in the end one rope to the gondola was used as a kind of cable car, everyone could be saved, writes AFP.
Among the eight people were two adults and six boys. The children were on their way to school when one of the cable car's two cables suddenly broke. One of the boys, Attaullah Shah, says he was terrified.
- Then a helicopter came and tried to save us, but it didn't work. I thought my last day had come.
At 11 p.m., local time, the rescue operation was over.
- When everyone was saved, the families started crying for joy. They continued to pray until the last person was saved, the rescue service's Waqar Ahmard told AFP.
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