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Climate anxiety

The heavy monsoon rains have once again flooded many areas of Pakistan leading to socio-economic crises. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “108 people died,…

Journalists under a climate siege

The media industry in Pakistan, as well as globally, is under siege – not from political forces or censorship, but from the relentless trudge of climate change. The logistics of…

Climate change: a health emergency

On December 3, the recently concluded United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai marked the celebration of the inaugural ‘Health Day’. This is the first time that the conference has…

Climate, world order and Pakistan – Part I

Pakistan today is in such a state where only historically unprecedented actions on a historically unprecedented scale can ensure its survival. This will be a massive challenge. But the stakes…

Protecting climate

One of the issues that drove America’s youth to vote in unusual numbers in the midterm elections, and to tilt heavily Democratic, is the climate emergency. It was up there…

Health and climate

EARTH can host humans owing to its climate. However, the damaging human footprint has jeopardised the environment and is, consequently, a threat to the human race itself in a multitude…

Climate chaos

Our son was born just after midnight on New Year’s Day, in the middle of a blizzard and at the apex of a plague. We jokingly call him Kyber Chaosborn,…