Over 3,000 people feared dead, another 10,000 missing after flooding in Libya, officials say
Over 3,000 people feared dead, another 10,000 missing after flooding in Libya, officials say
More than 3,000 people are believed to have died in devastating floods across eastern Libya, the country's health minister said Tuesday.
Given climate change increases the likelihood and severity of similar extreme weather events, here's a related article:
Twenty thousand years of this. Seven more to go.
And Libya is right next door to Niger, which is suffering from that huge coup a month ago, so it's unlikely any climate refugees from the flood even have anywhere to go. Perhaps they'll try to cross the Mediterranean into Europe, but as we've seen happen with other refugees, they'll likely be allowed to just die.
This timeline is awful
One and a half thousand years of this, tops.