Five Indicators that Climate Change will Leave People Even More Susceptible to Suffering

1) Climate change is already having major impacts around the world
 The effects of climate change are seen all over the world, not just the United States, from Polar bears to severe droughts and hurricanes to World Heritage sites, like the Great Barrier Reef, being dramatically altered. Glaciers melting is also a serious issue that is affecting Earth's water supply. Additionally, animals in the ocean are moving toward the poles and land animals are moving further North. Lastly, food production and prices have been greatly affected from improper nourishing environments for certain products to grow in.
2) The world's most vulnerable people will be hit the hardest
Sea levels rising and severe hurricanes and typhoons will affect smaller islands, such as Marshall Islands and the Maldives, and other poor areas farther in land. "Meanwhile incountries like India, hundreds of millions of people who live in rural areas still depend on rainfall, rather than modern farming practices like irrigation, to grow their crops. "The green revolution has not touched them at all," said Dr. Pachauri. "They are the ones who are going to be worst hit. These are the sections of society that are going to suffer the worst impacts of climate change."
3) Climate change will make violent conflict worse, and vice-versa
"Though the IPCC authors agree that the impact of climate change on violent conflict is "contested," and take care not to say that wars will necessarily be caused by climate change, they emphasize that the world's poorest regions are particularly susceptible to the impacts of both.
That's because the impacts of climate change – whether from heat waves and droughts that affect food and water supplies, or from storms that erode resilience to climate extremes by damaging or destroying infrastructure – are likely to be particularly severe for people in coastal and rural areas.
In places that don't have the same kinds of institutions found in the developed world – who have no path to adapt to or mitigate the impacts of climate change – its effects will be felt most acutely."
4) Despite little action on controlling emissions, adaptation is now underway
"The world's industrial nations have made little progress to date in controlling their emissions of greenhouse gases, at least in terms of making meaningful reductions that would keep warming in the decades ahead to 2°C above the pre-industrial era, the widely-acknowledged target for avoiding the worst impacts of climate change." However, Europe, Australia and Asia have already implemented government action for coastal and water management, land-use planning, and planning for sea level rise and water availability. "This is happening at the municipal and regional level in the United States, especially in major urban cities like New York and Chicago, while countries in Central and South America are creating conservation agreements and water resources management plans for their agricultural and tourist sectors."
5) The world has the information it needs to take action on climate change today
There is no more excuses for climate change being non-existent. "Projections for the impacts climate change will have on food security, water supplies and human health and security are "profound" and "grave," said Pachauri, adding that we have "much greater certainty and far greater detail today" on these impacts than in the group's last report in 2007. "There is a reason for the world not [to] neglect the findings of this report," he added. "We have reasons to believe that if the world doesn't do anything about mitigating the emissions of greenhouse gases, and the extent of climate change continues to increase, then the very social stability of human systems could be at stake.""





 

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