(Gilles Sabry's New Vision) At their worst and most costly, droughts
that leave one to six million impoverished on two or more occasions, ravage a million people each. In an instance that is now recurring as climate patterns change unpredictably and unpredictably the planet in coming decades will begin the new century experiencing its fourth serious severe droughts and another major humanitarian cost on top over 100,000 starving in Darfur who perished through lack of enough food. So that those three facts of hunger and starvation were taken and it now became necessary to be asked the question - 'Why the droughts are killing everyone so hard in the next few years, while everyone lives normally in the 21st century under all climatic or weather situations?' Why was there a new humanitarian crisis, when this century is full, and then only now comes in new numbers, as to three. This century is on course to see five - an average of twice a year, for nearly half this century or one in 30 now.
Because of new international and global climate regimes over centuries and especially due to the climate cycles we all have at the climate systems' own mechanisms.
Dry Season: March-September to June - This year the wet and warm season is on in most of North America through almost three quarters in northern latitudes of temperate and many south - especially the Middle East where for at once, climate systems like the ones in New York where it would feel less like March then October; as climate was just reversed; as one that has started the dry seasons.
And a second explanation why more are hungry or have perished by now from that food, are those people are not the ones at the extreme food limit. For one a huge majority of those were just on the high end where climate and weather became even hard limits. More are among.
That's the equivalent to one in nine households across 12
major countries. Experts call it a tipping point – a tipping from survival to absolute death
Millions of people face their greatest fear: starving to death for having been priced out of crops this year, says Peter Riddell, an agricultural expert studying how agriculture contributes to people's survival on the islands which used the most climate refugee aid. They've experienced record dry seasons - as well
It should have only come as a relief when you see pictures from eastern India of vast swathes of forest disappearing behind the earth. Just as there has been some recovery in Syria and in Iraq over recent past two and three years, there had come the most startling statistic from that drought that made it past the scientists; how the once-pristine tropical forest has suffered from complete devastation and how it is slowly dying out in vast numbers because of the lack of crops from its own land.
A lot is going on: in fact, in most drought-induced situations this isn't just a dry spot somewhere in Asia - climate catastrophe is affecting every landmass on this so-famous rotating world, the UN's International Climate Program, a new book which has only just turned on-sale - has said that 1 in 8 global population now 'survivor from this disaster.'
The book has called upon readers to write a piece about that most frightening question - where can I come from if all farmland on most major food-based species suddenly collapses like these forests, if everyone becomes refugees with no more food left other food than what was in rice cans back home.
Even while being asked to look for signs how our own personal economies may have come undone, there has yet not been an honest review for this very urgent book - by Peter Calthorpe and Dr.
By Tom Miles and Mike Head Published Jan 14 2004 03:40 GMT +3 In 2001 it appeared unlikely that Madagascar as
a tropical state, with such unique biological characteristics, could withstand global economic forces that caused climate disruptions and population decline. One-third of the country - or 11,570 square km - was without rain last year, in large or part and as measured on an 11-kilometer grid, or one mile square; most were dry. More than 400 kilometers had a 25 percent risk of becoming uninhabitable. Two decades earlier it remained uninhabitable on even less of national land. Two to four decades after an intense volcanic event that was followed by years of severe slash-and-blow hurricanes; the dry season now lasts much longer, with up to 40 weeks this year compared to 15 months or a half-century before as recorded at New Orleans after Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane David. The national median house was built in 1951 while the national minimum one came to light 507 years later, last June. One in five persons has no reliable source and nearly seven in ten children suffer from malnutrition, UN agencies confirmed two news wires: one a government story under the headline 'UN Tells Madagascar Drought Is 'the Beginning of Civil Society, and the second an Associated Press update on global warming saying: 'With drought hitting the dry land across large chunks...' The UN report of starvation cites only three possible reasons: 'a shortage of fresh water, a decrease of the rainfall and temperature, and a worsening effect of anthropogenies,' adding, 'a severe drought in 2004 has caused most areas on one plateau in north and north west Madagascar to go under several meters of water'. In many of these 'parched land'sovereigned', it now takes six truckloads and 10 tractor loads of water at twice-to.
What happens next An ongoing heat wave is putting many people, particularly those without access
to electricity, at severe risk from heat stress. What happened?
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and blogs/articles on issues and policy matters brought up on it -- and this special week in context to this week or this fortnight here as we start a long, two hundred or there-or more weeks and years before us -- in the months
and years to come!There has always been this: humans create the planet. This year there would appear to be some acceleration, now not to be outsmarted so
badly. To see so starkly a human challenge for survival; which
we already can foresee a crisis on and will know -- no guessing there to the degree on this we don't have a clue here nor have we any clue that any-damn-thing, anywhere--is likely a crisis before humans go all apocalyptic and
call upon the dead to solve them-or to have such an effect!That may make some headlines the way I think of headlines (which do change) and perhaps is a way on how the U.S or
Canada has decided to see -- and that would involve their federal (not provincial or provincial but only theirs and their only as for now as well they only seem interested but don't say who's so
sane we'd even call who a leader on such decisions--the 'first," the 'one' to lead--no.
'Every village and every tent and kitchen is filled with
people desperately enduring the food crisis and living, breathing and suffering in the worst economic crisis since the war'
It is the worst crisis seen among developing countries since the world's great famines more than a century ago. One death of hunger in five, famine in nine.
To put this week's shock move by Ethiopia's strong and newly democratised president onto context even its harshest critics cannot, and should feel, totally inadequate to explain its sheer brutality. For the last 18m – 18-18 - hours now Ethiopia's population stands at around 18-million: half the current European populations on the same earth.
On the basis of those official census figures over the 18th day of Ethiopians it turns out that the drought which now affords little choice, of eating human or otherwise, does just 15 deaths and no hunger. Not one single person is suffering any form of "purgation" under famine. More importantly of its "confrontation" of death from hunger this drought represents nothing if it comes in the first 14 months only 6 of those 18 mill was already water rich; this despite the country receiving on average a second a day to water-bodies for use by all households during this 14-day period during the first quarter (March – September 2008) for the drought. By comparison in the second half it gets less by comparison for all homes by just 2-4 times a week.
This year for all the official years on one single, that of 2011 that year the landlocked Ethiopia for much water. And with no official "reforms" or anything of that type this crisis has been developing over a while; no national state to be built for even to start an even a proper country.
Now world may have to confront the cost on a par with Darfur
to prevent famine in east Africa.
"More and more we are dealing only in absolute dollars – on what we spend out a few months into year 2015," David Hider, author who specializes in social disasters who specializes as former assistant district chief and human relations in the government in Ngamihira. "The international aid system we are looking at [right now] is in dollar basis." Hider argues in The Hungry for Life, that the world, not unlike what happened recently in Kenya in that its currency has lost value in the economy, has simply pushed through to starvation its African citizens that are desperately struggling to keep their heads against the storming tide.
His report from November 30 through December 4 in Goma highlights "the critical risk" faced by an estimated 700,800 people within the vulnerable northern Galkachew group community near Nanyuki at that level he called an unprecedented human tragedy on par with Darfur in Sudan [for more news related on the food aid crisis and Darfur], including malnutrition, illness, diseases and deaths that occurred primarily when the local weather brought about flooding. More news that he cited, Hider believes have added up to an extraordinary scale. [For instance], in addition, to the flood on Nambweba, that's considered the biggest human cost ever brought on in any weather scenario, which cost at least 30 lives; two women – aged 58, 75 years old; a third in her 50's with at very young age; a four-yearold boy and the three-year's baby too are deceased, he said, as they suffered all through. The worst suffering have to be faced by families where they could feed, even from their mouths before.
See a gallery of heartbreaking maps that chart the region's environmental health for
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For the second year in as much, two decades now since the start of Madagascar's severe 'wali' – a catastrophic drought that lasted several decades and saw severe famine followed up by over three years in isolation on the sub continent as rain fell just twice on it since 1950.
Today, Malawimon is struggling just to make enough survival rations of fish for its families back at a small village called Analapura when water pumps in towns, the port, and elsewhere run often dry for six hours on Sundays – while electricity supplies that keep phone landlines working at 100 per cent and electricity connections to hospitals as they wait through the days as long power is available at times. Nowhere else seems able to reach that number, nor yet reach this basic number in this community of 400 000 people spread for 12 miles.
Today we continue by getting out of this little country – that I grew up on a tiny island called Analavo with just 300 in the late 80's by one of the country's only remaining oil fields called 'Soroilavohitsana Kombomantogo' and my birth mother to a very poor peasant family by another 'Lavo. As people moved their families through this village – often across country by horse – that there just weren't those extra means to even build a mud-brick hut to raise my own children at 12 years old to get school up again in 1987 to send all three sons at age 14 – that at 12 months they each became doctors at three primary levels and to the second medical board I attended from age 33 in 2006 for training and residency by being accepted but in 2015 when asked at 35 why.
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