- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Hollywood actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has expressed a deep concern over climate change after witnessing the flood disaster in Pakistan saying it should be a “wake-up call” for the entire planet on environmental issues.
She also called for more international aid after meeting victims of the natural disaster which has claimed more than 1,550 lives besides rendering several million people homeless. A third of the country was inundated because of an unprecedented rain.
People, who have lost their homes, are also faced with threats of water-borne and other diseases besides finding little potable water or washing facilities.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” the 47-year-old Jolie, who previously visited Pakistan to meet the victims of the devastating 2010 floods and a deadly 2005 earthquake, said in a footage released on Thursday (22).
“I am absolutely with you in pushing the international community to do more… I think this is a real wake-up call to the world about where we are at,” she said during a meeting of civil and military officials in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.
“Climate change is not only real and it’s not only coming, it’s very much here.”
Jolie represents the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
The award-winning actor visited Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected areas, where she met with victims of the flood living in camps.
The UN has warned of a “second disaster” from diseases such as dengue, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea, as well as from malnutrition.
“I have been speaking to people and thinking that if enough aid doesn’t come, they won’t be here in the next few weeks, they won’t make it,” the actor-activist said.
Scientists have linked the record-breaking rains in the South Asian nation to climate change.
