Flooding in Pakistan by

Improve discourse on issue.

2023-12-04 15:11:51 UTC

Hold government to account.

2023-12-04 15:12:07 UTC

Blame climate change.

2023-12-04 15:12:20 UTC

Better infrastructure, eg interaction dams and stormwater.

2023-12-04 15:13:01 UTC

Flood systems and studies on changes, funding and application.

2023-12-04 15:13:50 UTC

Aid going to government needs to be after the right questions are asked, to ensure the State is accountable.

2023-12-04 15:14:44 UTC

Loss and damage fund must be a priority.

2023-12-04 15:15:14 UTC

build more and bigger infrastructure

2023-12-04 15:15:47 UTC

Increased precipitation in short period of time

2023-12-04 15:15:50 UTC

Funding more research and development to better understand monsoons etc

2023-12-04 15:16:11 UTC

Better knowledge on changing weather patterns

2023-12-04 15:16:12 UTC

People outside Pakistan, especially in "global north" must ask how they and their governments are complicit of this disaster

2023-12-04 15:16:44 UTC

Public discourse focused on distinguishing climate from man-made disaster --> hold state accountable

2023-12-04 15:16:49 UTC

Critically engage with infrastructure and ecosystem of infrastructure that it sits within.

2023-12-04 15:16:58 UTC

Natural disaster, climate change, big infrastructure projects

big infrastructure, early warning system, more research

2023-12-04 15:17:00 UTC

Hold government accountable of studying the incoming weather events, and react to requests made from these studies and groups that had been asking for preparations to be done

2023-12-04 15:17:04 UTC

Blame rain

2023-12-04 15:17:16 UTC

Infrastructural solutions such as updating sewage systems

2023-12-04 15:17:23 UTC

Flooding is caused by climate change. Solutions focus on big infrastructure development such as dams to manage flooding.

2023-12-04 15:17:38 UTC

Re-framing loss and damage funds are reparation

2023-12-04 15:17:39 UTC

Maintaining the historical discourse by using master labels like "unprecedented floods" and labelling the floods as a "natural" disaster; Big Infrastructure development

2023-12-04 15:17:54 UTC

Naturalization of this climate issue

2023-12-04 15:17:55 UTC

demanding government action such as L&D, improved flood systems, improving early warning systems

2023-12-04 15:18:02 UTC

Improve the sanitation infrastructure

2023-12-04 15:18:12 UTC

Keep calling it unprecedented

2023-12-04 15:18:40 UTC

Change the discourse by calling this a manmade disaster, denaturalizing it.

2023-12-04 15:18:45 UTC

What obligations do nations [more] responsible for climate change in the global North have to pursue climate justice and recompense for the hurt and disenfranchisement of others globally?

2023-12-04 15:19:21 UTC

The Americans should stop propping up dictators in Pakistan.

2023-12-04 15:19:25 UTC

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Understanding the responsibility of the global north- making loss and damage a part of the discussion international fora.

Hold government accountable by asking why greater investment hasnt been put into updating and maintaining drainage infrastructure instead of constructing more dams.

2023-12-04 15:19:48 UTC

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blaming political elites, calling on state accountablity and responsibility. paying attention to geopolitics with India

Early flood warning systems; Changing discourse by emphasizing the anthropogenically-induced nature of the problem

2023-12-04 15:20:21 UTC

Promotion of the thought that reparations are not charity. It's responsibility.

2023-12-04 15:20:23 UTC

funding research on future implications of prior disasters, holding our own states accountable for role in climactic change

2023-12-04 15:20:24 UTC

Say it is because of a lot of rain and exceptionalize the phenomenon

2023-12-04 15:20:50 UTC

Loss & damage; Questioning why it hasn't been a part of climate negotiations thus far

2023-12-04 15:21:01 UTC

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Installing generic early flood warning systems without accounting for the fact that some regions/people are more affected by the floods than others.

Funding from international community, responsibiltiy of the Global North, examine climate change and policies historically

2023-12-04 15:21:42 UTC

citizens in global north calling for climate reparations from their govts

2023-12-04 15:22:07 UTC

Bring it up on COP28

2023-12-04 15:22:37 UTC

People are different in different places

2023-12-04 15:24:13 UTC

Floods affect folks in Pakistan differently from how they would folks in other places due differences in culture, climate, livelihoods. Solutions must take these difference into account.

Check in with your friends?

2023-12-04 15:25:24 UTC

Check in with your Pakistani friends to see if they are okay. If you have cash to spare, ask them for advice on how best to contribute to the relief.