r/interestingasfuck • u/Due_Yesterday_2850 • 11h ago

The aftermath of the flash floods this is absolutely heartbreaking

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u/graemehammondjr 11h ago

You would like to think this would be the dose of reality to take climate change seriously but most of us know it won't be

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u/Impactor07 10h ago edited 10h ago

Anti Climate Change shit only really happens in the US, the West at best, I don't think a single soul in the rest of the world does especially places like Nepal which feel the direct consequences of global warming all the time.

How can I be so certain? Because I'm Indian myself and if anybody here were to say that climate change is a hoax then I'd imagine that person would be made to stand in the sun for a couple hours until they pass out.

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u/Few-Lengthiness-2286 8h ago

Holy hyperbole

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u/whooptheretis 9h ago

a couple of hours

FTFY.
Would be great if the Indian awareness of climate change would spread to the awareness of pollution.

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u/Significant-Dig8323 17m ago

Nah, they'll just say climate change is natural and isn't caused by humans.

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u/Orkapork 3h ago

It's chilling because literally the only thing I actually see is the complete removal of what's man made. Feels a bit like mother nature cleaning the slate.

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u/djamp42 9h ago

I keep watching the videos at the border crossing and watching the people.

A couple of people started running, looked back and just stood there, they knew it was over.

It's so mentally fucked to me that you can go from just hanging out by the side of the street talking to someone and then dead and most likely never be seen again in a couple of seconds.

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u/AwoogaBoogaKooga 6h ago

Looks like the moon almost

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u/ElementalWeapon 6h ago

For those rivers at the Y-junction at that huge border crossing building, I wonder if the waters are still flowing? Hard to tell due to the color of the riverbed.  

I’d be curious to know if it is still trickling, or if it is pooling and building up somewhere upstream. 

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u/bdanmo 1h ago

The destruction at that border facility is insane. Thats the same place from those super harrowing videos where the massive walls of water and earth come crashing in from both sides.

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u/Norgur 10h ago

Let's make this even more heartbreaking: We have massively impressive machines that can get lots and lots and lots of help and ressources into Nepal within hours. We have ships that can house all those people until other people brought in enough stuff to rebuild all that. We have that RIGHT NOW. And we are using it to shoot down the stuff of other people and those other people instead for reasons that are asinine at best and depraved at worst.

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u/amontpetit 7h ago

We have ships that can get to a famously mountainous, landlocked country?

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u/Norgur 2h ago

We have ships that can transport all the stuff needed to reach the country by air and establish a forward base and supply lines. Nepal is about 1k km away from the Sea, which is around the distance an aircraft carrier can operate from.

What I'm saying is that all that technology is being used to kill and shit instead of being used for helping people

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u/gorillagil 11h ago

Confused as to why they build their towns in valleys? Seems to not be the brightest idea. I mean how do they think the valleys formed? Not saying it's their fault but just why?

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u/Atharaphelun 10h ago

Source of fresh water. Humans have always built settlements next to sources of fresh water, and they all happen to be low-lying areas like river valleys or floodplains.

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u/DifficultYoung9812 10h ago

Civilization always tries to build around drinkable water, simple as that.

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u/pinkyfloydless 10h ago

Not be the brightest idea?? Do you think this is a common occurrence? Humans have been building settlements in valleys for as long as there have been buildings and settlements.

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u/ty88 9h ago

Exactly.

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u/Wykosiarz 11h ago

I thought that was on the Nepal-China Border?

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u/goodbyesolo 9h ago

It was. Why are you asking?