Sand And Surrounding Storms Have Become Climate Bombs, The United Nations Rang
330 million people affected, 70 million premature deaths each year, $ 150 billion annual loss
New York: The United Nations has warned that sand and surrounding storms have caused bombs worldwide due to climate change, which is currently affecting more than 33 million people in 150 countries.
According to the Gulf news agency, the latest report by the UN subsidiary (WMO) reports that 70 million people are being subjected to premature death every year as a result of these storms.
The Chashma Kasha report said that the surrounding particles in the air are causing respiratory and deadly diseases of the heart, reduction of crops, hunger and population migration.
The United Nations has declared the period from 2025 to 2034 to deal with sand and surrounding storms.
UN General Assembly President Feliman Yang said that the storms have joined the world’s most neglected but most dangerous crises. They have become poisonous for human life, economy and food.
WMO correspondent Laura Patterson said that around the world is about 2 billion tonnes every year, with about 300 pyramids equivalent to Egypt. 80 % of them rise from Africa and the Middle East desert, which crosses the continents and oceans through the air.
The head of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia said that the surrounding storms damage the Middle East and North Africa to $ 150 billion (2.5% GDP) annually.
He said that the hospital was filled with hospital patients due to severe storms in Iraq, Kuwait and Iran, he said, while schools and offices had to be closed.
WMO Secretary General Celistte Soulo said that it is not just dirty glasses and blurred atmosphere but also a direct threat to the health, life and economy of millions of people.
Experts have warned that if immediate steps are not taken, this environmental crisis could cause irreparable harm to humanity, the economy and the planet in the next decades.
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