#climate challenges

Essential Homes Research Project,

The housing concept was designed by Norman Foster for displaced communities who are used to living in temporary settlements for years, providing the necessary needs of safety, comfort, and well-being.

The designed prototype is extremely sustainable and emits 70% less CO2 than conventional buildings. It is low-carbon, energy-efficient, and circular, incorporating a variety of Holcim sustainable building solutions.

If fossil fuel use and impact had suddenly appeared overnight, their catastrophic poisonousness and destructiveness would be obvious. But they have so incrementally become part of everyday life nearly everywhere on Earth that those impacts are largely accepted or ignored (that they’ve also corroded our politics helps this lack of alarm). This has real consequences for the climate crisis. Were we able to perceive afresh the sheer scale of fossil fuel impact we might be horrified. But because this is an old problem too many don’t see it as a problem.

Human beings are good at regarding new and unfamiliar phenomena as dangerous or unacceptable. But long-term phenomena become acceptable merely because of our capacity to adjust. Violence against women (the leading form of violence worldwide) and slower forms of environmental destruction have been going on so long that they’re easy to overlook and hard to get people to regard as a crisis. We saw this with Covid-19, where in the first months most people were fearful and eager to do what it took to avoid contracting or spreading the disease, and then grew increasingly casual about the risks and apparently oblivious to the impacts (the WHO charts almost 7 million deaths in little over three years).

The fossil fuel industry through airborne particulate matter alone annually kills far more people every year than Covid-19 has in three years. Recent studies conclude that nearly 9 million people a year die from inhaling these particulates produced by burning fossil fuel. It’s only one of the many ways fossil fuel is deadly, from black lung among coal miners and cancer and respiratory problems among those near refineries to fatalities from climate-driven catastrophes such as wildfire, extreme heat and floods.

The way we befouled our water, air and land, allowed manufacturers to introduce dangerous materials – lead, PCBs, PFAs (sometimes called “forever chemicals”), dioxin, high-level radioactive waste, microplastics, pesticides and herbicides – may seem to later generations shocking, stupid and amoral. Often the deployment of these substances offered short-term and specific advantages while leaving long-term and widespread damage; often the few benefited and the many paid. But all this was normalized.

WHAT IS ALLATRA

ALLATRA International Public Movement is a volunteer-driven initiative that unites participants from over 180 countries.

The main goal of ALLATRA International Public Movement is to study natural disasters and geodynamic changes happening across the planet and to initiate open discussions on developing effective solutions to the global climate crisis.

The Movement serves as a platform for uniting initiatives, projects, and ideas focused on building a sustainable global society capable of ensuring the safety and well-being of current and future generations.

At the same time, ALLATRA's work is focused on preserving and protecting human rights and freedoms. It highlights the need to strengthen global mutual understanding in order to tackle pressing issues and emphasizes the priority of human life amid large-scale climate challenges.

ALLATRA is a public movement that brings together independent nonprofit organizations, informal volunteer groups, and individual activists. Operating outside of politics and religion, it receives no external funding and does not represent any commercial or government interests.

Several devastating floods and landslides hit Nepal during this year’s monsoon season. The most recent occurred in late September, affecting millions of people, causing widespread loss of life, and considerable destruction of infrastructure, including ravaging 26 hydropower projects with a total loss of over 1,500 MW of hydropower. In the face of climate-related water shocks, Nepal faces a unique…

Ghana is grappling with increasingly severe climate challenges, as unpredictable weather patterns continue to affect the nation’s agriculture, economy, and daily life. From relentless floods in urban centers to extended periods of drought in rural areas, the nation’s environment is showing signs of significant stress, raising concerns among experts and residents alike. In the past year alone,…

Heavy Downpours Bring Relief, but Urban Areas Face Flooding Challenges Monsoon downpours slash state’s rain deficit but leave Jamshedpur waterlogged. Urban infrastructure overwhelmed as residents navigate flooded streets and health risks loom. JAMSHEDPUR – The state’s rainfall deficit has been significantly reduced by recent monsoon deluges; however, urban areas are currently experiencing severe…