Climate Letter #943

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Carl Campbell
Pakistan has some of the world’s worst air pollution.  “The issue is acute in developing Pakistan, where emissions standards often go ignored partly because of a belief the country cannot afford to hamper its economic growth.”  (Pakistan is not the only one to think that way.)  Instead of moving toward renewables, which would alleviate the problem, this country is building 13 new coal-fired power plants—with China’s assistance.

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Ethiopia is struggling with a major drought.  Food shortages now cause 7.8 million people to rely on emergency handouts to avoid starvation, but aid agencies say they will run out of resources in a month.  A similar drought in 1984-85 killed hundreds of thousands.
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Sri Lanka has lost almost 40% of its rice and other crops this year due to a freakish combination of drought followed by heavy flooding.  Nearly one million people require food assistance.
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The overall global requirement for people needing humanitarian assistance for all reasons has now reached a record 141 million in 37 countries.  Numbers have been rising rapidly this year from a variety of different causes, many of them weather related.
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Emissions reduction is not wholly dependent on national government actions.  The private sector and lesser government bodies can voluntarily make substantial cuts that produce the same kind of results as a carbon tax, though on a smaller scale.  What is required is a certain amount of education, organization, willpower and leadership, and that is exactly what has started to happen.  This post shows how, along with why the Paris Agreement is not an adequate solution to begin with without this broader type of movement.
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A good reason for why fewer new dams should be built and more old ones dismantled.  All the sediment that is trapped behind them is badly needed further down (Yale e360).
Carl

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