Peak Humanitarian Aid

[Forkboy]

Peak Humanitarian Aid: The period during which accelerating climate crises overwhelm the capacity of industrial civilization to handle them. Has this peak arrived, along with the others? The July 2010 flood catastrophe in Pakistan suggests that it has.

The United Nations reports that the scale of the flood damage is larger than the combined damage from the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The UN has launched its largest-ever appeal for aid, and donors are falling short.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports:

Oxfam warned last month that “many” relief programs were in danger of being terminated because money had run out. The World Health Organisation and UNICEF revealed recently they may have to close some emergency operations and cut staff because of insufficient funding.

The situation remains grim, with 7 million refugees facing winter without homes, more than 10 million still receiving daily emergency assistance, and much of Southern Pakistan still underwater.

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2010/12/peak-humanitarian-aid.html

[dkf]

1. Well I guess all those billionaires who pledged half their assets will have to take up the slack.