These past days, dramatic scenes have unfolded all over Germany and Central Europe in general: after unrelenting rainfalls had overburdened the natural absorption capacity of soils and riverbeds, massive floods spread throughout Central European lowlands and threatened the lives and livelihoods of thousands of persons. People had to be evacuated, some even died, and many have to come to terms with the fact that the second ‘flood of the century’ comes a mere 10 years after the 2002 catastrophe and will again swallow all their belongings. Having followed the news quite extensively these past days, I began to wonder – in which way did human activities contribute to or exacerbate the crisis?
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Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni 