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© Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Over 1,000 feared dead after cyclone slams into Mozambique
By ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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CrazyJoe
This is a beautiful part of Africa with amazing people. Thank you JT for reporting on this cyclone and its impacts, and for sharing those shocking photos.
In addition to the direct devastating impacts of the storm, people's subsistence crop fields will have been destroyed by the flooding. The coming months will see famine unless the world acts quickly and decisively to prevent it.
This is just a small taste of what is to come from climate change - more frequent storms, death, lost working productivity, famine, increased food aid required, all on a relentless positive feedback cycle.
Leaving aside the ethical issues here, the economic costs of not aggressively combating climate change with massive rapid decarbonization and reforestation will greatly outweigh any short term economic costs.
It is the number one issue of our time. We need to stop ignoring it and start acting now.