He is an Associate Editor with a focus on climate change at Pakistan Observer, Islamabad.

The Islamic Republic is currently a burning ball (read: hell). And so is much of its neighborhood. The subcontinent is right now the hottest place on earth. While extremely high temperatures are not uncommon for this time of the year, the swing from exceptionally cool weather of just a few weeks ago is hard to ignore. With such bipolarism, one can only hope that the next extreme is not a monsoon-like that of two years ago.

To fall back on hope and for that to be the only plan is rather naive, for I might remind that neither global warming nor climate change is an unknown phenomenon. If anything, there are now countless who whip out terms like “adaptation” and “resilient development” at will. And now more than ever before “experts” are said to be working in tandem with donors, governments, and businesses to usher us towards a “just global transition” away from fossil fuels.

Pakistan is no different where the quota of........

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