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Pakistanis displaced by flooding stand near a road underwater in Sehwan, Pakistan, on Sept. 16. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)

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This week, Americans are understandably focused on the hurricane-related flooding in Florida, which is causing tragedy for thousands. Yet there is little attention in the United States to the fact that Pakistan has been flooded since mid-June, a catastrophe that is still causing unspeakable suffering for tens of millions.

Both of these crises owe much to the same phenomenon — climate change. But aside from some limited aid, there’s scant U.S.-Pakistan cooperation on long-term solutions. That has to change, according to Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who was in the United States this week pitching his proposal for a “Green Marshall Plan”.…  Seguir leyendo »

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El huracán Harvey ha dejado en su estela vidas agobiadas y enormes daños materiales, estimados en unos 150 a 180 miles de millones de dólares. Sin embargo, la tormenta que azotó la costa de Texas durante casi una semana completa, también plantea preguntas profundas sobre el sistema económico y las políticas de Estados Unidos.

Es irónico, sin lugar a dudas, que un evento relacionado con el cambio climático haya ocurrido en un Estado que es el hogar de tantos que niegan la existencia del mismo – y donde la economía depende tan fuertemente de los combustibles fósiles que impulsan el calentamiento global.…  Seguir leyendo »

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By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, the authors of the forthcoming The End of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/04/06):

Environmentalists and their opponents have spent far too much time debating whether global warming is caused by humans, and whether the transition to cleaner energy sources will be good or bad for the economy. Whatever the causes, warming is a genuine risk.

If the earth's temperatures continue to rise, we can expect to face melting glaciers and rising sea levels, warmer ocean temperatures and more intense hurricanes, more frequent droughts and other extreme weather.…  Seguir leyendo »