One can understand the extensive coverage of the effects of hurricane Harvey: a dozen people have died, 30,000 families have been displaced from Texas' most populous city and inundation records have been broken. Clearly global warming played its part in the disaster which has struck in the back yard of the world's most significant climate-change denier, Donald J Trump. Besides all this, video footage from multiple sources is available.
But spare a thought for India, Nepal and Bangladesh where extreme monsoon rains have led to the deaths of 1,200 people, destroyed agriculture and removed over 100,000 homes. The relatively rich India has set up a £78m disaster fund, but Nepal and Bangladesh will almost certainly need outside help. A bit more publicity by the BBC would help the aid agencies provide this.
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