Pakistan floods: ‘The climate catastrophe of the decade’
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson gets an on-the-ground account of the destruction from Sky News’ Saima Mohsin and discusses the huge rescue effort under way with Peter Ophoff, from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Plus Sara Hayat, a Pakistani lawyer and activist, explains why climate change is considered the root cause of the floods and what action is needed to protect the country from further destruction.
Podcast producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alys Bowen
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:30.1 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
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| 1:02.0 | That is the sound of someone's life being washed away. |
| 1:14.6 | It's a bad year. is the sound of someone's life being washed away. I'm watching a two-story, seemingly solidly built house |
| 1:18.6 | crumble into pieces. |
| 1:20.6 | The floodwaters flow faster than any river you've seen, |
| 1:23.6 | taking everything in their path, cars, crops, homes, lives. |
| 1:30.3 | In Pakistan, more than a million houses have either been damaged or destroyed. |
| 1:40.3 | Hundreds of thousands of people will tonight have the stars as they're sealing. |
| 1:45.0 | The cost of recovery, so far, more than $10 billion. |
| 1:49.0 | The enormity and the scale of destruction is so huge that it is difficult for any country. |
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