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We get an update from Libya, where at least 6,000 are feared dead after a catastrophic cyclone hit the eastern city of Derna, causing two dams to burst and flooding whole sections of the city. Storm victims are being buried in mass graves as hope is dwindling for those who have been unable to locate friends and family members. Libya’s infrastructure has crumbled over years of civil war, NATO intervention and political instability; Derna’s dams have not been maintained since 2002. Ahead of the storm, the government did not declare an emergency or carry out evacuations. “It’s obviously our government’s fault,” says Libyan youth climate activist Nissa Bek in Tripoli. She notes Libya’s lack of investment in risk mitigation or climate adaptation means the scale of the disaster was not a surprise. “I’m hoping that this tragedy could be the turning point for all of this, and for them to actually take the climate crisis more seriously,” adds Bek.
Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/13/libya_floods
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So sad all these people lost their love ones.
And all you spouting sympathy now for Libya yet says nothing when America destabilised it for her own selfish gains and has another proxy war. Just like Ukraine. I despise America.
It's the End of the world as we know it.
God alone has the answer it's in the bible. This shall come to pass the answer is continued to prayer.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sombody should of made it illegal to build next to the ocean long time ago.
Our fossil fuels did not break your dam stop using it as an excuse
VU.S.
30 members!!! THIRTY!! that's a whole family tree. How devastating, heartbreak doesn't cover that kind of loss. The survivors guilt and the issue of surviving a literal apocalypse.😢 of course they know, but what can ppl do other than deal with it. But this loss is too great. 😢
If people like you who keep being experts on 'climate change' stay the hell out of it things would be a lot better. ….so Libya gets money from oil they sell so you want to stop that so they have no resource to build back. Makes sense. Just how do they do that along with corrupt crooked leaders.? Let the Bushes and Clintons pay for it.
Population control
This is NOT climate change if people read the Bible they would know that this is End of Times weather…its God,s wrath on an unrepenting unGodly world.. everything that is happening is foretold in the Bible…this is God,s prophecy and HE does NOT lie, unlike the globolist luciifarians that run this world, Jesus Christ is coming back just as we were told He would, Jesus is the way the truth and the life, there is NO other way to the Father except through Him, repent.. turn to Jesus and you will be saved. Time is short…to God 1,000 years on Earth is 1 day to God….God does not lie.. !! Satan does . ! do not belive what the world leaders are telling you about climate change… it,s NOT true….Turn to Jesus Today… ! Amen Lord.
GOD HAVE MERCY ON THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
Believed in GOD in the NAME of JESUS CHRIST the SAVIOR REDEEMER of HUMANITY. Without GOD JESUS Can’t do anything. People wake up CALL UPON THE LORD JESUS AND WILL SAVE you Amen HALLELUJAH AMEN
What are they living on if they haven't been paid for 2 years? Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. One MUST work to feed his/her family, so don't make up "facts" to support an agenda.
So sad Gaddafi is killed by the west and now Libya is suffering and they call it democracy
Pity Libyans… Allah help them🙏😢🥲
But if it happen in China the bully country of the son of Damon Greedy Xi Jingping even 1 year flooding there and 1 billion died I'm no mercy of them and its okey for me and I celebrate happy beautiful and awesome calamity👍👍👍🤣😁😂🎉🎊🎉😅😆😁😄👏👏👏
Didn’t most of Africa just turn it’s back on US and say they support Russia?
Africa said Russia has their back. They said they don’t need the US anymore. Let the ruble get them
Out of this. I don’t want one US $ put towards this.
When are we going to realize that until we donate EVERY cent of our incomes to climate change, it will NEVER go away! We need to give up sports, Christmas presents, etc. to fight this! Isn't giving every penny we earn to politicians worth trying to eliminate climate change????!!!!!
‘’every minute past means 10s or 1000s dead.’’ Africa… let me make this clear. You don’t say fuck the US, we are on the side of Russia. Then have a natural disaster then say but why aren’t you helping,
Much respect to Nissa Bek, the world needs her!
Direct Energy Weapons (DEW)- Sustainable development =culling us useless eaters.
Please pray to Yahweh ("I am that I am!") my people
It's not fossil fuels if you research you'll realize cataclysm like this happen like every 1500 years roughly. And most places are past due. No matter how much money we give to world governments, they can't control nature. Only thing we can do is adapt!
Prayers to all the Civilian casualties in Libya, Iraq, Afghan & Syria
Social work lecturer
The racist climate of an offensive nation that claims to be Muslim. This is what happens when you play games with Almighty Allah. Change your nafs and stop disrespecting Islam with your worldly nationalism.
Wake up people!!! It is not humans causing the climate to change, IT IS THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS EARTH! God is sending forth these calamities to try and gather the last of those who will hear Him. Woe unto this wicked and perverse generation! It has become filled with soothsayers who preach unto themselves soft words… Woe Woe Woe unto this generation!
Rip for pass a way victim.
Earthquakes in Morocco, Turkiye, & Floodings in Libya, Greece, Shengzhen China, Hongkong, Brazil, Japan, Himalayas India, BlackRock- Nevada(Burning Man), , Fire In Hawaii🤔. Typhoons, Earthquake, Extreme Heat.. We done f'd up now mother nature striking back😮 Green-house gases emissions(esp CO2) at it's highest. And they are still holding "Global Summits" which we all know aren't sincerely geared towards halting global warming.
so sad..😂😂😂😂😂