As I sit in my home in Swabi, in Pakistan’s Gandhara region, nestled between two mighty rivers, the Indus and Kabul, I’ve been unable to tear myself away from the images of yellow, dried land across England. Pictures of the once-green historic Greenwich park in London, where I first studied years ago, now looks like a dusty wasteland.
The chaos of the climate crisis, bringing extreme heat, droughts and floods, has been on Pakistan’s doorstep for some time now, but it’s clear the world is now catching up to a reality it can no longer ignore.
