Catastrophic floods and landslides have torn through South and Southeast Asia in recent weeks, as powerful tropical storms and cyclones hit Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The destruction has been overwhelming. More than 2,000 people are dead across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand alone, with many are missing. In Sri Lanka, over 1.1 million people were displaced, prompting President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to call it "the largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history."
But these disasters are not caused by storms alone. Climate change, government corruption, and lack of preparedness have turned these natural hazards into deadly catastrophes.
The Human Toll: A Crisis of Historic Proportions
The storms—Typhoon Koto, Cyclone Senyar, and Cyclone Ditwah—left thousands of families homeless. Entire towns were submerged, while landslides buried homes and roads.
In Sri Lanka,
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