World Bank estimates 2022 floods pushed another 13m Pakistanis into poverty.
Source
World Bank — https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2025/10/17/fragile-gains-enduring-challenges-charting-pakistan-s-path-out-of-poverty. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Climate change can reverse socioeconomic gains; resilience is poverty policy.
What it does not prove: This is an estimated additional flow into poverty attributable to one event, not a surveyed headcount, and it overlaps the broader post-2020 rise driven by COVID, inflation and macro stress — stacking it on top of those figures double-counts the same households. It also says nothing about how many recovered afterwards.
Memory hook: 13m → one flood season pushed a Punjab-city's worth of people under
Rebuts the claim: "Climate change is an environmental file, separate from the poverty and growth agenda" — a single climate event moved the national poverty count directly.