General chit chat thread., page-2326

Many skeptics here may be thinking about the stock share price, while in Mongolia, many are thinking about basic survival. IMO.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/7/19/photos-mongolias-brutal-winters

"Photos: Mongolia’s nomadic herders suffer brutal winters

Plummeting temperatures and an extended winter kill almost half a million livestock, causing a humanitarian crisis in Mongolia."

Altai, Western Mongolia – Mendei Berdimurat pulls on the reins of his horse and looks up from beneath the rim of a worn-out flat cap on his head.

The 52-year-old from Saksai in the Altai mountain range in west Mongolia has been a herder all his life. But this year he is worried.

“The lakes should have melted by now. This is June. But seeing it still frozen shows how bad the winter has been,” he says.

Mongolia’s harsh winters are lasting longer each year – bleeding into the summer months – and threatening the survival of nomadic communities who make up one-third of the country’s population of three million.

The extreme weather and the severity of climate change are also having a detrimental effect on food security and income, according to the United Nations.

Berdimurat, who is making his annual 150km migration with his livestock from his winter camp to the summer pastures, looks weary."