When my country, Pakistan, flooded last year, women faced particular suffering. That’s true around the world
. One reason is that they are often the group with the most limited resources at hand during an emergency. But besides that, the threat of sexual violence shoots up during extreme weather events – the United Nations found that with drought in Uganda came rising rates of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Floods in Pakistan and cyclones in Bangladesh brought not only maternal health crises but also increased violence towards women. And yet 0.
Nancy Allen and Brian Allen stand outside the house as high winds push smoke and ash towards Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, in January 2020.Climate change is such a soft word for the horrors that await us. They called it climate change on purpose to defang it, to make it seem less frightening, less urgent a battle.
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