Can the scumbags at the Daily Mirror get any lower?
For grieving mother Fatama Begum, the climate emergency that British MPs declared in the House of Commons last week is not a distant concept.
Climate change for her is terrifyingly real, a malevolent force that unleashed unprecedented storms which took her eight-year-old son Maruf Hossein’s life.
While politicians in Westminster debate the urgency of cutting carbon emissions, families in southern Bangladesh are experiencing floods, rising seas and cyclones that get worse every year.
I meet Fatama in a village near the coastal city of Kuakata, an area beset by natural disasters.
The city was lucky to escape the worst of the destruction as Cyclone Fani killed 17 people in Bangladesh last week.
Still traumatised by the drowning of her third child, Fatama, 33, cowers timidly in the semi-darkness of her family’s wooden-stilt home.
She whispers: “The flooding last year was the worst it has ever been. The water was so high that we were wading up to our knees through the house.
“We decided we would go to a neighbour’s house on higher ground for shelter.
“Maruf was stood on a bank, and even there the water was nearly up to his waist. When I turned back around, he wasn’t there. He must have slipped because the water was so fast-flowing.
“My husband and I were looking for him for half an hour, and then we saw his body floating in a corner. Even now, it is difficult to talk about Maruf’s death.
“I am only carrying on for my three other children.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-lost-son-8-surging-15026660
In 1970, when the world was cooling, three-quarters of a million died when a cyclone hit Bangladesh, submerging a large fraction of the country:
HH Lamb – Climate, History and the Modern World
Such death tolls from floods were common prior to the present era.
In the 1970s too, more than a million died because of monsoon failures in India and Bangladesh:
HH Lamb – Climate, History and the Modern World
Death tolls like that are unimaginable now. Only the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami comes close in recent years.
What on earth does the Mirror rag think it’s going to achieve with climate porn like this?
Read more at Not A Lot Of People Know That
The Daily Mirror and the NYT’s liberal news rags are all about the same Not News just Leftists Propeganda
It and the rest of the media are counting on the ignorance of their readers to anything more ancient than what happened in the last few years. And that no one will challenge them on their outright lies. Unfortunately it has been working way too well.