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How many of us are affected due to climate change?

As per the journal publication "Global Hotspots of Climate-related Disasters" (June 2024) climate-related disaster events directly impacted over 44 % of the global population in 2020. The climate related disasters are drought, riverine flood, tropical cyclone, flash flood, land slide and mudslide, wildfire and heatwave. Droughts have affected the most people, with over 1.4 billion, followed by riverine floods, which have affected more than 1.2 billion. The percentage of the population impacted understandably decreases with an increase in Human Development Index.

Climate-related disasters affected substantially less people in European countries than in Australia, Africa, North America, Asia, and South America. The low percentage of individuals harmed by climate-related disasters in countries with high levels of Human Development Index, as well as in European countries, could be attributed to people's ability to execute adaption techniques.

Climate-related disasters have touched more than 100% (cumulative percentage) of people in 19 nations, indicating that vast numbers of people in certain countries, particularly in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia, have been affected year after year. This recurring impact most likely indicates that adaptation efforts in those countries have fallen short in assisting people and ecosystems to adjust to climate change.

Due to 205 climate disaster related events (mostly riverine flood, heatwave, flash flood and land slide) in India between 2000 and 2020, more than one billion Indians were impacted. India ranked 131 out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index in 2020 and 134 in 2022.

References:
1. Global Hotspots of Climate-related Disasters (June 2024): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420924002504

Anyone can become disabled at any point of time.

Everyone will be disabled if you live long enough.

So a basic empathy towards disability & understanding of equity is an investment for when you need its returns.

PM Narendra Modi is likely to meet US President Joe Biden Friday on the margins of the G7 summit in southern Italy’s Puglia region. With Biden headed to Italy, White House said aboard Air Force One there’s an “encounter” likely between the 2 leaders as the president expects to see the Indian PM there, while reiterating it will continue to raise the foiled Sikh separatist murder plot at very senior levels with India.
#PMModi #Biden #G7 #US #Pannun #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-modi-biden-to-meet-at-g7-us-says-will-keep-raising-murder-plot-at-high-level/articleshow/110977701.cms

Bona-fide Spyware

WhatsApp has more than 400 million users only in India. I am one of them and I cannot evade it due to very strong network effects. In several cases, I pushed a friend or an acquaintance to use a messaging tool other than WhatsApp. And I was the only user for that person who eventually uninstalled that messaging tool before long.

We know WhatsApp provides end-to-end encryption but collects metadata which matters as, once again, stated here [www.techradar.com].

WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption to protect your communications. At the same time, though, it regularly collects some seemingly less important details attached to your messaging activities—metadata.

This information includes IP addresses, phone numbers, who you have spoken with, and when, among others. It may not look so important, but even such small digital traces can act as identifiers. For instance, it was exactly a piece of metadata—a Proton Mail recovery email—that led to the arrest of a Catalan activist.

As for WhatsApp's Privacy Policy, the app records a wealth of usage logs including "the time, frequency, and duration of your activities and interactions." Other identifiable data such as your network details, the browser you use, ISP, and other identifiers linked to other Meta products (like Instagram and Facebook) associated with the same device or account are also collected.

The issue is that surveillance techniques are getting always more sophisticated. WhatsApp’s internal security team identified many instances of so-called correlation attacks where a smarter analysis of encrypted data—linked to its very much visible metadata counterpart—can evade the app's privacy protections.

What's really is scary that we're at a point were we made #SPYWARE socially acceptable simply because the authors are from "well-respected organizations" rather than "evil hacker groups".

Till climate change related issues move from the periphery to electoral interest

Climate change is all about saving humanity and our ecosystem. The significant human cost due to failure to address the climate change related challenges is understood very well without any ambiguity.

As per Professor Tim Lenton [geography.exeter.ac.uk],

For every 0.1 degrees of warming above present levels, about 140 million more people will be exposed to dangerous heat.

Between 2016- 2021, climate extreme events caused damage to crops in over 36 million hectares, and a $3.75 billion loss for farmers in the country. If estimates from the report on ‘Loss and Damage Today’ by economist James Rising were to be believed, India lost 8% of its GDP in 2022.

#India #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-aims-to-achieve-debris-free-space-missions-by-2030-isro-chief/articleshow/109356772.cms

#BJP is doing everything it can to destroy our democratic institutions.

Would you stop being a mute spectator and join us in doing what we can to prevent this?

We may still lose, but we have to at least make a good effort to wake people up from the disappointment and disillusion that is built by the mainstream media.

Join us at https://pirates.org.in/2024/