In June, a
deadly heat wave hit Karachi, Pakistan, claiming close to 1,300 lives.
As bodies piled outside morgues, and cemeteries ran out of space to bury the
dead, the head of the sluggish provincial government, former President Asif Ali
Zardari, flew out of the country.
In a city plagued by constant power outages, a seemingly
unlikely champion emerged: the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). The TTP issued a clear
threat to K-Electric, the private electricity company responsible for the power
outages. In Karachi, that usually means a bomb threat.
Read the Aeon
opinion piece - “If governments fail on climate change, extremists will step in.”
(Those in Paris has
more to think about than simply managing the impact and effects of climate change
for if there response is weak, flimsy or favours any one nation ahead of
others, then groups of people wait in the wings to fill those inadequacies with
behaviour that could only be described as “militant or extremist” – desperate people
mostly do desperate things and that mostly manifests itself as violence – Robert McLean)
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