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Climate Change Kills the Poor
Climate change is real, and the greatest challenge facing humanity. Rich countries like Scotland are responsible - it is our excessive carbon emissions that are driving it, particularly from high emissions industries like coal-fired power generation and airports. But it is poor countries that will suffer most from climate change...
- Diseases will increase - 185 million people in Africa alone could die as a direct result by 2100.
- Water supplies for one-sixth of the world’s population are at risk from glaciers vanishing.
- Droughts will worsen threatening the food supplies of hundreds of millions of people.
- Rising sea levels, erosion and agricultural damage could make between 150 and 200 million people environmental refugees by 2050.
Meanwhile...
- Rich countries are responsible for 80 per cent of the manmade increase in atmospheric CO2.
- The average UK citizen emits as much CO2 in 2.5 days as the average person in the world’s fifty poorest countries does in a year.
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