Posted on 01/22/2019 7:07:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Everything about Mami exudes exhaustion. Her round brown eyes are pools of sadness, and her bulbous body throbs with pain.
"First, armed groups attacked nearby," she explains in a tired voice as we sit on plastic matting, five young children nestled close to their mother in Mali's fabled city in the sand Timbuktu.
"Then the rains came, and did the rest."
The worst rains in 50 years in northern Mali washed away their entire crop.
Those rains poured through the cracks in her mud home caused by an explosion an armed group set off.
The cracks are showing everywhere in a fragile land now doubly cursed by the extremes of conflict and climate change.
The increase in temperatures in the Sahel are projected to be 1.5 times higher than the global average, says the UN.
"It hasn't been on our radar screens," says Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
"We often look at arms and armed actors, and maybe at underdevelopment, but now we see that climate change is leading to conflicts among communities and this is a different kind of violence."
We see promising examples, at a local level, which show us peace is possible and there's a lot of energy to respond to climate change," assesses the ICRC's Mr Maurer. "But it's clear to me they won't cope unless there is solid support from the international community which isn't just through a security lens."
And the clear message from Mali is time is running out.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Wow. when novelists think they are reporters:
“Her round brown eyes are pools of sadness, and her bulbous body throbs with pain.” How about adding “her passion pot writhed with anticipation”. Oops, wrong kind of novel..
Once they get the GW tax mandated, the UN will use it as a slush fund to pour trillions into 3rd world countries.
NONE of it will go to “Helping the Planet”
The only thing which will happen is we will create lots of very rich dictators like Idi Amin and Yasser Araifat who want to destroy the West.
yea it’s a good idea to have 4 kids while living in a mud shack..
“Climate Change” is the justification that just keeps on giving as far as Leftists are concerned. It’s such a nebulous, open-ended concept and it can validate virtually any government intervention on its behalf.
“Then the rains came, and did the rest.”
The worst rains in 50 years in northern Mali washed away their entire crop.
Then there’s climate change in Bali, located a short distance away. Live feed of Gunung Agung volcano erupting live feed (watch in evenings) -
Watching the volcano make its own weather is harmful to snowflakes.
Her bulbous body, huh.
Keep her bulbous body and that of ALL of her countrymen right THERE.
In MALI.
Mali has the very highest fertility of any country on Earth.
If they had any sense, it would be the lowest, if they’re overheating there, which they’re not.
Stupid should hurt really, really badly.
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