Ahmad Rafay Alam is an environmental lawyer and Yale World Fellow. He has served as the Chairman Lahore Electric Supply Company and Lahore Waste Management Company.

Rafay Alam comes on the podcast to discuss Climate Change, Floods, RUDA and Pakistan's case at COP 27.

Are we past the tipping point?

Do politicians care about the Environment?

Will Pakistan survive the Climate Catostrophe?

Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience.

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

1:00 Global Warming

5:00 Tipping Point of Climate Change

6:30 Methane and the Meat Industry

9:00 Capitalism and Climate Change

12:00 Environment and our Stories

15:00 Floods are a man made Disaster

18:30 The Hubris of Man, Colonialism and the Labour Class

26:45 Lahore Canal Conservation

28:24 Intensification of Monsoons and Heat Waves

30:00 Development at the expense of the Environment

33:20 Pakistan’s case at COP 27

39:00 The role of the USA

41:30 Fossil Fuels, Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy

44:30 Nuclear

46:00 Water Scarcity

51:00 Water and Provinces

55:00 Indus Water Treaty

57:30 Special Investment Zones, CPEC and Corporate Farming

1:07:00 Chief Justices

1:10:30 Lawyers Movement

1:13:30 RUDA and Ravi

1:24:50 AQI Air Quality Index

1:31:00 Audience Questions