Poor face disaster from global warming
MOST of the gains made by the world's poorest countries over the past half a century will be lost unless action is taken on climate change, Oxfam says.
A report by the international aid agency says up to 375 million people may be affected by climate-related disasters by 2015.
"Climate change is becoming quite rapidly the central issue to do with poverty today", Oxfam Australia's chief, Andrew Hewett, told the Herald. "That also raises deep ethical dilemmas because the people least responsible for this crisis have the least resources to deal with it, and they are also those who are on the front line."
Oxfam is publishing the report, Suffering The Science-Climate Change, People And Poverty, today before this week's meeting of world leaders at the Group of Eight summit in Italy, where climate change and food security will be high on the agenda.
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Hunger caused by climate change may be the defining human tragedy of this century, the report argues, and if global warming is allowed to proceed unchecked the true cost "will not be measured in dollars but in millions or billions of lives".
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stunning stupidity? Never seen quite so much in one space as on this sad blog.
The poor far more likely face a climate holocaust from global cooling than from global warming.
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They should concentrate on the real issues of world poverty, and climate change certainly is not one of them. They have been indoctrinated with AGW unproven, not happening foolishness, and the huge waste of world's research money on worthless research into AGW. Try using all that money on real research into agricultural improvement, helping humanity & the environment, training, and solving and real pollution issues of the planet.
Azza, Being so clever, I am sure you can point out the specifics of the stupidity.
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