THE PARTICULAR catastrophe is unprecedented. The devastation is complete. As the BBC headline, quoting Pakistan’s climate change minister, announced to a nonchalant world, “one-third associated with Pakistan is under water”.
Homes, entire villages, schools and acres of life-giving vegetation have been inundated. And amid the unfortunate occurances are ones of our own making, helicopters throwing down a number of kilograms of foods to starving individuals but further knocking the already damaged crops by their getting and ascent.