South Asia floods.

[Animavore]

South Asia floods kill 1,200 and shut 1.8 million children out of school

Hundreds dead in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, while millions have been forced from their homes and 18,000 schools shut down across the region

Heavy monsoon rains have brought Mumbai to a halt for a second day as the worst floods to strike south Asia in years continued to exact a deadly toll.

More than 1,200 people have died across India, Bangladesh and Nepal as a result of flooding, with 40 million affected by the devastation. At least six people, including two toddlers, were among the victims in and around India’s financial capital.

The devastating floods have also destroyed or damaged 18,000 schools, meaning that about 1.8 million children cannot go to classes, Save the Children warned on Thursday.

The charity said that hundreds of thousands of children could fall permanently out of the school system if education was not prioritised in relief efforts.

“We haven’t seen flooding on this scale in years and it’s putting the long-term education of an enormous number of children at great risk. From our experience, the importance of education is often under-valued in humanitarian crises and we simply cannot let this happen again. We cannot go backwards,” said Rafay Hussain, Save the Children’s general manager in Bihar state.

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[JimC]

Population pressure forces millions of poor people to live on flood plains. Add climate change and deforestation of the upper reaches of the various rivers, and you have an inevitable recipe for disaster.

[pErvinalia]

Terrible news.

[devogue]

Wil nobody think about Houston?

[pErvinalia]

[Sean Hayden]

Don't put that shit on us, y'all are free to talk about whatever you want.

[Rum]

Houston - we have a problem..

[Hermit]

Houston - we you have a problem..

But yeah, we share it with you. The problem is called Trump.

[Tyrannical]

Population pressure forces millions of poor people to live on flood plains. Add climate change and deforestation of the upper reaches of the various rivers, and you have an inevitable recipe for disaster.

Population pressure forces millions of poor people to live on flood plains? Poor people live on flood plains because they practice subsistence farming and flood plains are rich productive soil near water.

[Rum]

Population pressure forces millions of poor people to live on flood plains. Add climate change and deforestation of the upper reaches of the various rivers, and you have an inevitable recipe for disaster.

Population pressure forces millions of poor people to live on flood plains? Poor people live on flood plains because they practice subsistence farming and flood plains are rich productive soil near water.

Yes they throw themselves at death because they are poor and deserve nothing better.

[pErvinalia]

They should just get better jobs.

[Svartalf]

yeah, right, you get any to give'em?

[pErvinalia]

They can clean my kitchen. It's a fucking mess.

[laklak]

I need some yard work done.

[mistermack]

It's partly man made. Even though they are poor, they can still enhance flooding. Not by paving over the land but by cutting down trees. The real problem is too many people in too small a world.

The obvious answer is to increase the size of the world.