Climate Change Crisis Worsens In East Africa



A five-year drought is causing a hunger crisis in East Africa. After NBC News’ Keir Simmons reported on the dire conditions in Kenya last month, UNICEF says viewers’ generosity led to half a million dollars in donations. However, 20 million children there still face drought conditions that are expected to worsen in 2023.

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26 comments

  1. Everyone will be dead by 2040.

  2. There hungry cause all the handouts has exploded there population and the land has always been that way there. 🤣🤣🤣Fools. Can't farm a desert.

  3. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲
    The two weeks of climate discussions at the COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, ended in disappointment. As CNN wrote, “The world has failed to reach an agreement to phase out fossil fuels … an attempt to address the biggest source of the planet warming emissions that are causing the climate crisis ended in a fiasco after a number of nations, including China and Saudi Arabia, blocked a key proposal to phase out all fossil fuels, not just coal.” While the members reached an agreement “to set up a ‘loss and damage’ fund meant to help vulnerable countries cope with climate disasters,” it will not reverse climate change or solve our major problems.
    We may be able to assist with local climate crises, but we cannot change the global climate with our current attitude. If we want to change the climate, we must change it on all levels, and first and foremost the social climate we have created. As long as it is negative, aggressive, and heating up, the global climate will reflect it.
    The reason we hold global climate conferences is that the climate is a global issue. Everything we do, in any country, affects the global climate. Therefore, without global mutual consideration, humanity will not be able to resolve the climate crisis.
    Regrettably, to work in global mutual consideration, we must develop empathy toward all of humanity and rise above the narrow interests of each country. We are nowhere near such an attitude. On the contrary, each country tries to impose decisions that serve its own interests on the rest of the world, and the result is a climate world war where everyone loses.
    As is the case with every war, the rich and powerful countries set the tone. They continue to burn fuels that pollute the air and accelerate climate change, and nothing will stop them unless natural disasters become so extreme that they will force all of humanity to change. In the meantime, as lip service, or perhaps to buy the world’s consent, they set up “loss and damage” funds to “repair” the damage. Such funds do not solve anything, and everyone realizes this.
    Besides extreme weather and climate disasters, the climate crisis has another adverse impact: Icebergs that have been frozen for thousands of years, and often far longer, are thawing. And buried in the ice are countless viruses that have been reawakened, and for which our bodies have no immunity. Scientists are already warning that the next pandemic may actually come not from wild animals or human errors, but from melting icebergs. A paper published two years ago aptly named it the “permafrost pandemic,” and warned of “the risk that deadly diseases from the distant past may return.”
    Indeed, if you look at all the crises plaguing the world today, you will find that none of them are local. Covid is a global issue, climate change is affecting the entire planet, rising energy prices and interrupted supply chains are affecting all of humanity, and even a local crisis such as the war in Ukraine has serious consequences for the entire world. The interdependence already affecting all of humanity will only intensify until we are unable to make a single movement, to take a breath, without affecting the entire world.
    On the positive side, none of our problems are insurmountable. In every single crisis, if we only work together rather than against each other, it will disappear as though it never existed.
    All that is needed in order to fix our every plight is to change our attitude and put humanity first. Since reality is global, so should be our order of priorities. Prioritizing humanity will not only help the entire world, but every single individual, precisely because we are irrevocably interdependent. If we continue to impose a narrow vision on an expansive reality, we will continue to collide with one another and with all of nature. If we change our attitude, we will change the climate, and we will change the world.

  4. I'm starving!!! Let me have more kids!!! Nah bruh… let them die for being that stupid…

  5. 20 Φεβρουαρίου 1996

  6. Climate change? Commies don’t give up

  7. Africa always had a hunger crisis in the last 60 years. I know those pictures of starving african toddlers since my early childhood.

  8. That's Africa's problem, we have enough problems in the west to care about Africa

  9. Told you money wouldnt work

  10. They said we are all "equal"

  11. Some comedian once said stop giving them money to live at the base of a volcano tell them to go where the food is

  12. I'm very thankful to be Nigerian and not have to go through seeing this. East and West Africa are very different. In the east, there is very little sources of water, the. Main source being the Nile River. Not a lot of southeastern African countries get a lot of water. However in the west, you can see a bunch of countries on the coast of the Atlantic ocean. This is the gold coast, home to much water supply. Unfortunately, not every side gets the same benefits.

  13. Also……telling me we can't find a billion dollars to help. Apparently we have 1.7 trillion.

  14. Wow,imagine being a billionaire and being able to do something…..but instead, you buy Twitter…….

  15. Send them the money Ukrainian is getting they deserve it more.

  16. Climate change is a 100% hoax.

  17. Came here for a "Climate Change Crisis Worsens in East Africa" news story and got suckered into a Unicef ad.

  18. Send them some $ out of the spending bill.

  19. A drought in Africa? What?

  20. And Africa countries don't like America policy like Joe and like China and Russia and they are giving alot of money to Africa countries not like the Americans only giving a fraction of money

  21. But that's a different country so we don't care 😀

  22. They are so rich, they eat gold.

  23. Take care of the border first