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richard

20 December 2007 - 10:33pm

I just picked this up over here:http://tinyurl.com/332wcp

It is from the UNDP, about the impact of climate change on human development. Courtney is hot on non-intervention in other countries, but climate change is a huge intervention, imposed mainly by us in the West. Its a kind of imperialism by pollution.

They have evidence ot believe that some or all of these things could happen:

- The breakdown of agricultural systems as a result of increased exposure to drought, rising temperatures, and more erratic rainfall, leaving up to 600 million more people facing malnutrition. Semi-arid areas of sub-Saharan Africa with some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the world face the danger of potential productivity losses of 26% by 2060.
- An additional 1.8 billion people facing water stress by 2080, with large areas of South Asia and northern China facing a grave ecological crisis as a result of glacial retreat and changed rainfall patterns.
- Displacement through flooding and tropical storm activity of up to 332 million people in coastal and low-lying areas. Over 70 million Bangladeshis, 22 million Vietnamese, and six million Egyptians could be affected by global warming-related flooding.
- Emerging health risks, with an additional population of up to 400 million people facing the risk of malaria.