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Heavy flooding kills hundreds in South Asia
30th August 2017
Much of the Western media's attention has been on the impact of the flooding in Texas, but the human cost of the flooding affecting vast areas of South Asia (especially Nepal, India & Bangladesh) is on a different scale. Once again the issue of resilience of poorer countries to the impact of extreme weather accentuated by the effects of climate change becomes ever-more salient.
Reports from the flooding in South Asia.
BBC News - Houston floods, but what about all the other disasters? https://t.co/ceUfgysYX8
— Richard van de Lagemaat (@TOKtweet) August 31, 2017
Flooding and landslides from monsoon rains have affected at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal https://t.co/lO5AnsnGwN
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) August 29, 2017
More people should be talking about the severe flooding affecting millions in South Asia https://t.co/Jn1TeyI5jB
— The Independent (@Independent) August 30, 2017
Heavy flooding in South Asia, from the business hub of Mumbai to the Himalayan nation of Nepal, has killed hundreds https://t.co/EMLddbK5PV
— Financial Times (@FT) August 30, 2017
Mumbai paralysed by floods as India and region hit by heaviest monsoon rains in years https://t.co/bhYE99sZhx
— Rob Chambers (@RobGeog) August 30, 2017
The Economist has a very long term perspective on the estimated number of people worldwide who have died as a result of natural disasters.
In 1970, 200,000 people perished from natural disasters. Over time that figure has dramatically decreased https://t.co/kRUZZVDTuO pic.twitter.com/Kstda4ORbw
— The Economist Data Team (@ECONdailycharts) August 30, 2017
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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