Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Thunderstorm-Approaching-in-Afghanistan-27MZIFL2VTWB.htmlConceptually similarThunderstorm Approaching in AfghanistanGP01X4VCompleted★★★★Floods Victim in AfghanistanGP01X54Completed★★★★Blind Man in AfghanistanGP01X46Completed★★★★Villagers at a Bazaar in AfghanistanGP01X4MCompleted★★★★Ill Man in AfghanistanGP01X34Completed★★★★Local Population in AfghanistanGP01X3JCompleted★★★★Local Men and Boy in AfghanistanGP01X3BCompleted★★★★Girls in AfghanistanGP01X4ECompleted★★★★Local Population in AfghanistanGP01X2ZCompleted★★★★View AllGP01X4LThunderstorm Approaching in AfghanistanAn old man in the bazaar hurries to reach home before the storm hits Shahr-e-Bozorg village, all shops have closed due to the bad weather.Locations:Afghanistan-Asia-Shahr-e Bozorg-South AsiaDate:1 Jul, 2009Credit:© Robert Knoth / GreenpeaceMaximum size:5000px X 5000pxKeywords:Climate (campaign title)-Climate change impacts-Day-KWCI (GPI)-Local population-Men-Old-One person-Outdoors-Roads-Storms (climate change)-Thunderstorms-VillagesShoot:Climate Voices from AfghanistanIn the summer of 2001 photographer Robert Knoth and writer Antoinette de Jong traveled for weeks around the remote areas of northern Afghanistan where the population was suffering from a severe drought. In 2009, they revisited the same district of Shahr-e-Bozorg to try and find the families they had met eight years earlier. They found many of the people they interviewed and portrayed earlier and saw how rehabilitation programs had made a huge difference to their lives. But this spring, as northern Afghanistan was hit by extreme storms, rainfall and flooding for many weeks, much of the hard work that was done in recent years was falling apart yet again. Houses and schools collapsed, roads were disrupted or completely disappeared by landslides, and drinking water systems were polluted and destroyed. Climate change and overpopulation are causing erosion and a collapse of the fragile livelihoods for the majority of rural Afghans.
