The public sentiment surrounding the monsoon flooding in Pakistan is predominantly negative, characterized by deep sorrow for the victims and substantial frustration with governmental incompetence and inadequate disaster response. Many comments highlight the severe humanitarian crisis affecting millions and criticize the perceived indifference of both local authorities and the international community. A consensus emerges regarding the urgent need for improved disaster management and climate action, as well as calls for accountability amidst ongoing discussions on political narratives influencing perceptions of the tragedy.

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That’s insane considering Pakistan is the 5th most populated country.

ajuicebar

Don't a lot of people live in that valley?

Killer-Barbie

Oh man, the instant dead and missing numbers are awful. Imagine the disease that's about to explode there though? Holy smokes it's going to be in the 10s of thousands.

MrRemoto

MCmnbvgyuio

So that’s where Europe’s rain went…

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I can certainly imagine that if our level if communication was what it was 3,000 years ago, this event would what many ancient texts call the great flood. Even by todays observation and standards this is massive, affecting a large portion of the worlds population.

philovax

Where did you get the photo from? I went to NASA’s website but their sat photo quality is surprisingly a little worse.

THEnotsosuperman

Is it only visible on shitty satellite images, or do quality ones also see it?

207nbrown

This is the fate awaiting California’s Central Valley.

MonkeyDeltaFoxtrot

Why do I get the sense that not enough people are talking about this? I’m in the US and this is the first time I’m seeing this. Fucking madness.

yaweecoont

This is just insane. Mountainous and desert regions are flooding. The US west coast is undergoing an unprecedented drought. Large parts of europe, places without air conditioning, are experience heat waves. And it's only going to get worse from here. 

I fear massive "die off" is coming. Of the poorer populations. People in places like Pakistan that didn't have the advance warning or means to escape tainted flood waters. People in parts of Europe, Asia, and the US that don't have the means for cool air or clean water. 

And then I remember it's the rich that have guaranteed access/coverage for these events. Short of global famine and agricultural collapse, they are fine. Which is why they (politicians and rich corporate leadership) don't give a flying fuck about global warming. 

There's a new circle of hell for you assholes. I guarantee it.

This is crazy man all these heat waves and stuff makes me wish people treated the world better...

The lack of empathy here is disturbing. That's a huge fucking chunk of Pakistan under water. Nationwide, long-lasting impacts for at least a decade. I can see why they're urgently seeking international aid

Potutwq

Dude... that's like... all their farm land.

The audacity of some people from the west denying climate change, "It isn't real" well it might not be real for you yet, it has been our reality for the last 12 years at least. 

Pakistan is not even or barely in the top 30 countries for carbon footprint (correct me if I'm wrong last I checked it was 31st) yet it's probably the most affected country by climate change. 

This isn't even the worst part, this is just monsoon rains causing this catastrophe.

Soon there will be major glacier meltdowns and for context HKKH mountain regions have the biggest glaciers in the world after Arctic and Antarctic.

Only a united world can slow down and reduce this crisis, we can't stop this but we can minimize the damage starting now. Our third world countries will be the first to fall down while the first world countries are the biggest cause of this. 

TLDR; Pakistan is the forefront victim of Climate Change and things are only gonna get worse.

rex_ra

Now imagine this in a western country. See how fast the news media actually picks it up and reports on it being the disaster of the century, brought on by climate change, like it should. Imagine if the entire state of Georgia flooded with water like that or a Country like Spain. 

Are the alarm bells ringing for climate denialists yet?

EridanusVoid

This is so sad. Wasn't Pakistan going through a drought before this? It shows that dry soil can't absorb water fast at all. I pray all these families are safe.

SupremeToca

Holy shit. I can’t believe more people don’t know about this.

I like to imagine there’s a doomsday preper who bought a houseboat 30 years ago and is just giving everyone the finger rn

This is from the rains, but in the future there will be massive glacial melt to contend with as well. Pakistan and everywhere that relies on their water sources will have it very rough.

letsjumpintheocean

That's sad inshallah not too many people die and the valley returns to it's former self sometime in the next 10 years

33,000,000 displaced is a horrible tragedy

israelilocal

"shitty". Yeah, it's ridiculous how they can't even make proper photographs from space. Thanks, Obama!

I seriously had no idea this was happening.

About twenty years ago, messaging around "Global Warming" due to the"Greenhouse Effect" began to become common amongst even mainstream media. Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" doc dropped around then as well, and was full of predictions of doom.*Future* doom, but doom nonetheless. 

It's all unfolding exactly as predicted, isnt it? Those twenty years went by pretty quickly and I barely changed my own lifestyle, and I know many others didn't as well.

Reddit_reader_2206

Developed countries emit so much greenhouse gases and developing countries get fucked.

murtaza7865253

Was it in pakistan that they planted an insane amount of trees? Not suggesting this is related or anything, just merely thinking about a particular relevant push on their end to avoid climatic tragedy for everyone else

hopboat

Wonder if this is some apocalypse indicator in some religion

TheMannerlyJester5

nassau4

We all know comments would be a lot different if this had happened to a European or North American country. You may not like the government, but innocents civilians have nothing to do with their government. Show some empathy for fucks sake.

We're at that stage of climate change where it's changing the fucking map

tyrddabright-axe

33+ million people displaced. Barely see any mainstream media talking about it sadly. Most of the information I've seen is being given by Pakistani and Muslim sources and the usual pages I see on social media covering disasters and relief funds haven't raised a peep about what's happening there. Sucks to see my entire country people demonized and generalised as rabid individuals in the West.

MahamidMayhem

Prehistoric creatures, too innumerable to count, died and were transformed underground. Their flesh was reduced to carbon that filled subterranean deposits, never to see the light of day until ripped from the ground by Arab industrialists.

In the 17th century, after millenia of human thought, Sir Isaac Newton settled on a realisation: that what held objects to the ground was a force called gravity.

Fast forward through the next few centuries: the industrial revolution brought power, Jules Verne brought vision, the Wright brothers brought flight. Three extremely brave men, the culmination of all hitherto events, forces, trends, left the earth for the moon - a feat never before accomplished by a living being. They were soon followed by machine, as humanity harnessed the power of satellites to obtain the sight of a God.

All of this, so that OP can describe a comprehensible picture of South Asia taken **from space** as  "shitty".

weedandsteak

I live in Bengaluru and has been raining like shit since a week

Former_Notice81

What the fuck is wrong with the people in these comments

VersaceSamurai

SteveInMN

It’s so horrible and I feel bad for everyone affected by this tragedy. Like we are literally destroying our planet and causing climate change to get worse and worse. I really hope we can turn this around but my faith is almost at 0 because of how corrupt our governments and rich people are. Money &gt; our future and safety and this will probably never change or if it does it’ll be to late. Horrific events just like this will keep happening as long as people continue to sacrifice climate for cash

Dj_wheeman3

We’re now seeing what it’s gonna look like when the ice caps melt

Accomplished_Ease889

rrnit

beezus6674

Juck3r

Skadooshington

SniffCheck

It’s amazing that so many buildings are still standing.

dominiqlane

Over 30 million people displaced, a huge portion of the country is flooded... this is truly frightening and a terrible large scale disaster on a country already reeling from hyper inflation,  an unelected government filled with theives and even wanted criminal families.

Ready-Experience-922

How are those buildings still standing? I’m glad they are, but damn.

Whats-Upvote

High altitude looks look like mountains and rock in the background the city is lower all the water funneling down towards the city  , If I was in this it be more horrific than interesting .

jonnyozo

It's so sad to me that a third of the country is underwater and we are hardly hearing about it in the US. Instead it's the same three news stories over and over.

misogynysucks

Crazy thing is, is there are many areas in the country that have yet to be visited by rescue forces.

You’re talking about metro areas in poor provinces (Balochistan for example) which before the flooding only got 2 hours of electricity a day and unclean drinking water.

There has been no power, cell service, food, etc…

I expect the death toll to never really be known.

casuallymustafa

Just imagine how scary it would be to just be sitting on one of those rooftops and recording this!?!? I mean, the building could lose structural integrity at any point in time and you are GONE!! Ugh. Gives me the hebe-jebes. Lol

1Dru

I heard 1/3 of the country was underwater

Head-like-a-carp

I heard a Pakistani minister on NPR ( sorry didn’t catch her title) say that this flood took this years harvest and they won’t be able to plant in time for next year because the ground will be too dense from the flooding. I think it’s the biggest climate disaster we have seen so far in terms of human impact. 33 million people have been effected. Climate migration is coming.

DauOfFlyingTiger

Please tell me the footage starting at the 0:11 second mark is slightly sped up. Otherwise, that is the fastest I’ve ever seen a volume of water like that move. It’s gotta be sped up 20-25%

Edit: I’m in no way implying anything is fake or intentionally misleading - the flooding is unreal. I’m just remarking on that section’s playback speed.

johnnytcomo

Innocent people are dying and world is silent on this.

Damn sad for Pakistan..

That’s literally all of their lives washing away… I can’t fathom what that must be like.

IAmBagelDog

Oh my god, those poor people. As if they didn't suffer enough.

electric_shocks

An area of Pakistan the size of Colorado is currently underwater. It is literally biblical. A flood like this one could have been the origin for the Noah's Ark myth.

Fallacy_Spotted

The world needs to start learning this lesson soon. Global warming will make droughts and floods worse. And roads will be the path of least resistance for the ever worsening floods.

twomz

macxprt

This is the stark reality of living in a warming world.

And this is only at 1.1-1.2 degrees. Who knows what 2 degrees will look like

United-Student-1607

It’s so tragic, it’s been going on since June.  Like 1100 dead and now people are going to start to die from the water borne illnesses.

smd33333

I’m a climate scientist and I don’t find this “unreal”. 

Take notes, planet Earth.

Illustrious_Map_3247

Longjumping-Log1591

Okay I've seen flood before but not like this

This is insane!

hope everything will be okay soon

immoral_Nut

Where is it coming from, and what is it so fast?

FailureCloud

Ploddit71

It is sad that even in these times terror organization in Pakistan abusing foreign aid, instead of giving it to people who need it

With all the human rights violations, killing and converting minorities and training and hiding terrorists. Karma hit back in form of nature.

Harry_HB

Time to repent 

Time to invest time and $ in infrastructure instead of religion .. the universe have spoken .. repent now or be dammed

Mean whe their ex PM is sitting in UK will billions of countries wealth but isn't kicked out or money returned to the country...but very worried about Russia. So hypocrite

keeppresent

The government put their trust in Allah. Floods have been getting worse since 2010 and they haven't invested in any resilient infrastructure. Now they want hand outs from the IMF to the tune of $1.1 billion. Lets see where the money gets invested.

cryptonewbeee

thedoomcast

and its all because you wont help pad nancy pelsoi stocks in electric cars

rd2142

Ok, I don't watch the news. Can someone give me a summary? Is this caused by the weather or did a dam burst or something?

Bigirondangle

You know what is the real tragedy? Pakistan is not even among top 30 countries when it comes to carbon emission(only 0.06% of total CO2 emmision).. But it's among top 10 countries who are being most affected by climate change(according to old studies, probably will be in top 3 now after this devastating flood). So basically we are just facing consequences for what developed countries are doing. 
I'd urge everybody to donate to help people in need. You can find multiple Organizations that are working in the area affected by the flood.

tsnay33

Republicans: “global warming my ass, look at all that water!”

Own-Percentage-3890

humblepieone

Guess I will have to cancel my vacation to Pakistan.

Glorpstain

Oddballbob

Sad to see, I feel fortunate to live at the top of a hill so water can't stay it just runs away. Prayers to you all

Chefkey_Boards

Absolutely horrible, I hope they all got out in time. God bless them

BitTraditional1681

Any recommendations on vetted, legit donation websites we can look into for helping the people and children of Pakistan?!

Sugar_pine_mama

I would NOT be standing anywhere near balconies or the edges of buildings, that flood looks powerful enough to cave in buildings

Comtesse_Kamilia

fat_Tonys

just dump a lot of sponges in the water 🤦🤦

lack of empathy in these comments is real sad

Looks to me they built a village or town in a ravine

ButterscotchNo1210

At what point do start calling this a Tsunami?

I dont think this fits to what is in people's mind when you call this flooding..... At least not mine

opoqo

All that plastic and garbage will be in the ocean that sucks  !

Aggravating_Ear_4135

Meatybleeps

Meanwhile, humans: climate change isn’t real

w3are138

Dragonborne2020

Do you know how I got out of Pakistan? &gt;!Iran. !&lt;

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