When Climate Change-induced Floods Strike, you get Refugees, Resettlement, and Rohingya
Floods and displacement, Credit, The Guardian
Asia and the Pacific Region hosted more than six million, eight hundred thousand refugees, five million internally displaced persons and one million, two hundred thousand stateless people by the end of 2022, just as unprecedented floods affected eight hundred thousand innocent people.
More than three million Americans lost their homes in 2022, while 1,200,000 persons turned climate migrants in 2018, with 464,000 people displaced by for example Hurricane Michael and I82,000 dislocated by the Woolsey Fire in California, the displacements resulting to resettlements at the places of refuge.
Over 7.5 million Africans suffered displacement from their places of residence in 2022, while the East and Horn of Africa alone saw 1.2 million new dislocation in the year before, with two out of three migrants living in another West African country in 2020.
Experts blame climate change for the displacement of millions of people in the United States, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region in 2022 and the years before, especially when 53 percent of a total of 60.9 million people internally displaced got affected through disasters, including the present climate crisis.
In September 2022, Hurricane Ian struck near Cayo Costa in Florida through sustained winds of 150 miles per hour, just as the Western and Central Drought /Heatwave affected Western and Southern Plain states, with two tornado outbreaks arriving across the southern and southeastern United States.
Floods struck Asian nations such as Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Thailand in 2022, accounting for 74.4 percent of disaster events in the region, intensifying the misery of Rohingya refugees.
West and Central Africa groaned under one of the worst flooding disasters on record in 2022, with the event destroying crops across 1.6 million hectares of farmland in Nigeria, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, just as Cyclone Freddy swept through Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar for months, causing mayhem.
When disasters such as Hurricane Ian, Cyclone Freddy, and massive Asian floods strike, millions of people get forced from their homes, while droughts bring famine, such as the one that left more than 23 million people across the Horn of Africa in 2022 to face severe hunger.
Eight hundred thousand people lost their livelihood after emerging from a five-year drought (2006-2010)Â in Syria, a situation that triggered a massive displacement of farmers and herders, but when the government failed to address the basic needs of farmers, the people of the town of Dara'a took to the streets, the resulting government repression catalyzing into a series of protests, which evolved into a bloody conflict between the authorities and various rebel groups in the Syrian civil war.
Within 60 years, ninety percent of Lake Chad disappeared, creating competition for scarce resources between farmers and herders, which led to the death of 3,600 people between 2016 and 2018.
Natural disasters displaced a record number of the Chinese in 2020, making them to leave for urban areas, but since 80 percent of the migrants depended on agriculture and natural resources, their movement impacted negatively on food production.
Conflicts, competition for scarce resources, and declining food production become the consequence when millions of people get forced from their homes through hurricanes and droughts in vulnerable countries and, the issue could spread to developed countries such as the United States, when for instance conflicts start to emerge over the sharing of water from the Colorado River.
A part of the solution could be the slowing down of climate change, to prevent conflicts arising from the aftermaths of droughts and floods, because they force millions of people out of their homes, worsening the situation for all.
Four Exploding Products in the MPPT Sector
Voltage inverter, Credit, Research Gate
As climate change intensifies with the use of fossil fuels, new technologies emerge to lessen the effects. Here are some of the exploding products with the new trend this week, in the maximum power point tracking sector, important in the manufacture of solar panels. The trend here will provide ideas for activists, investors, creators, and founders.
Voltage inverter
Power inverter transforms DC power from a battery into AC power for the operation of devices such as electric lights, kitchen appliances, microwaves, power tools, TVs, radios, computers, to name just a few.
The global power inverter market was valued at US$ 72 billion in 2022, and is expected to reach over US$ 117.84 billion by 2032, poised to grow at a noteworthy CAGR of 5.10% from 2023 to 2032.
Comparator
A comparator consists of a specialized high-gain differential amplifier for devices that measure and digitize analog signals, such as analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), as well as relaxation oscillators.
The global amplifier and comparator market size hit US$ 4.5 billion in 2022, and is projected to reach US$ 4.8 billion by 2023. Global amplifier and comparator sales revenue is projected to increase at 4.6% CAGR during the forecast period, taking the overall value to US$ 7.5 billion by 2033.
X-OR Gates
XOR gate is a digital logic gate that gives a true output when the number of true inputs is odd.
The global logic gates market size was valued at USD 4.37 billion in 2021, and is poised to grow from USD 4.67 billion in 2022 to USD 7.84 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 6.7% during the forecast period (2023-2030).
Voltage follower
Voltage followers present a very high input impedance which means they do not load down the input source, thereby preserving the original signal.
High voltage amplifiers market was valued at USD 561.11 million in 2020 and is expected to reach USD1309.48 million by 2027 at a CAGR of 12.87 %.
What to Eat
A Myanmar vegan food, Credit, Happy Cow