City government workers clear a road afte the rainstorm.

Hats off to the leadership of China who made it possible to evacuate nearly a quarter of a million people in eastern China as rainstorms lashed swathes of the country and caused the Yangtze and other rivers to swell (“240,000 people evacuated in China rainstorms,” July 4, Gulf Today website). This year’s weather conditions in China are not as normal as before. People of China are coping with extreme weather conditions in recent months, from torrential rainfall to searing heat waves.

According to the report, Footage on state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday showed a section of the Yangtze rising high enough to nearly cover a sculpture in the city of Wuhu that typically stands about 12 metres above the water line. More than 100 millimetres of rainfall was recorded at hundreds of weather stations across Anhui between 5 pm on Monday and the same time on Tuesday, according to Xinhua.

Many casualties have been reported recently because of extreme heat and torrential rainfall. Climate change is gripping the world slowly and gradually with its deadly disasters. Climate change needs to be addressed on priority basis because it’s not an issue of a single county but the whole world.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. I am sure the whole world’s leadership is united against the deadly impact of climate change and it has taken important steps to deal with climate change.

Zubair Aslam,

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