Priya Adhikari is Nepal's first female helicopter captain and she's flown over 100 rescue missions in the wake of the devastating flood. Anderson speaks with her about what she's witnessed.
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Last Wednesday, an apocalyptic, tsunami-like surge of water, mud, and debris coursed through the China-Nepal border, killing at least 538 people, as of Friday. Nearly two thousand people are still missing. Civilian infrastructure failed or disappeared, telecommunications broke down, and hundreds of thousands of people were stranded in a remote, rugged corner of the country. Scientists believe the disaster was set off by a glacial collapse—which released a torrent of ice, mud, rock, and water that burst through the region’s narrow valleys and waterways. “Nepal is paying an extraordinarily disproportionate price for a crisis it did not create,” a member of Nepal’s Parliament said. “We contribute a negligible share of global emissions, yet we sit downstream of some of the fastest-warming glacial systems on Earth.” Ishaan Tharoor writes about the floods in Nepal, and their devastation on a country already in political and financial distress: https://t.co/7YtnDD2MoB
A deep analysis of what may have lead to the Nepal glacial collapse and a breakdown of how the flood overtook communities in a matter if minutes. #Nepal#flood#weather
We have almost doubled our forest area, conserved our wildlife, are close to being carbon negative, have almost 100% renewable electricity, and are already shifting to EVs. We haven’t exploited nature like many others have. Yet every year, we are among the victims of global warming.
a country that reversed deforestation, contributes less than 0.1% of global carbon emissions, and still suffers catastrophic consequences because of its geographical conditions and people still have the audacity to say, oh, it’s not global warming or climate change. fuck you.
🇳🇵 Horrifying footage from Nepal’s northern Rasuwa district, which was hit by a massive flash flood.
At least seven people have been confirmed dead, and 20 people are reported missing.