Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems - but there's still hope
There is a great conflict between two of the most pressing problems of our time: poverty and climate change. To avoid global warming, the world needs to massively reduce CO2 emissions. But to end poverty, the world needs massive amounts of energy. In developing economies, every kWh of energy consumed is worth roughly $5 of GDP.
Roots of Progress • Why Has Nuclear Power Been a Flop?
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For example, increased temperatures cause more moisture from the earth’s surface to evaporate into the atmosphere. As a result, there are more droughts around the world, more wildfires, and more flooding in areas already in danger of being consumed by water. Already, 20 to 30 percent of Bangladesh is underwater on a regular basis. This problem will... See more
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Random House Large Print)
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Staring down the barrel of human-driven climate change, an astronomical cost of living, and a poor economic outlook, most people recognize that they are far closer in life to desperate refugees than they are to the politicians, war profiteers, and rapacious capitalists who create them.
Nicholas Boni • No Matter How Rich You Are, You Can’t Own the Sea
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Small island developing states like Dominica are disproportionately impacted by climate change , meaning they stand to lose even more than other countries if the global community and big greenhouse gas emitters fail to meet commitments to cut emissions.
bbc • A Caribbean island's quest to become the world's first climate-resilient nation
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Multiple studies have now shown that the Syrian crisis was triggered in part because of the fallout and mismanagement following one of the worst droughts in centuries—linked to shifting rainfall patterns due to a warming planet. Along with the pure and immediate horror that humanized a refugee crisis many people knew of only via statistics, the pho
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‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
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After two of the country's most costly natural disasters struck within two years of each other ( 2015 and 2017 ), Dominica’s prime minister declared the country had found itself "on the front line of the war on climate change" and announced plans to make Do
minica "the world’s first climate-resilient nation ". Buildin
... See morebbc • A Caribbean island's quest to become the world's first climate-resilient nation
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