Climate Change, Deforestation and Corruption Combine to Drown a Region - NYTimes.com

"Unfortunately, there is very little attention towards the accumulating environmental problems," Yousafzai said. He blames global warming for roughly a third of the flooding this summer. [Which portion of that third was caused by SUVs, and how are these numbers calculated?] The rest was caused by deforestation, poor infrastructure development in the north, and engineering problems in irrigation systems in the south from mismanagement and neglect, he contends.