Climate change: the poor will suffer most

[xchrom]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/31/climate-change-poor-suffer-most-un-report

Pensioners left on their own during a heatwave in industrialised countries. Single mothers in rural areas. Workers who spend most of their days outdoors. Slum dwellers in the megacities of the developing world.

These are some of the vulnerable groups who will feel the brunt of climate change as its effects become more pronounced in the coming decades, according to a game-changing report from the UN's climate panel released on Monday. Climate change is occurring on all continents and in the oceans, the authors say, driving heatwaves and other weather-related disasters.

And the changes to the Earth's climate are fuelling violent conflicts. The UN for the first time in this report has designated climate change a threat to human security.

The overriding lesson of this report, the scientists said, was that unless governments acted now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adopt measures to protect their people, nobody would be immune to climate change.

[handmade34]

1. "the poor will suffer most"

...and in what situation do the poor not suffer the most?

[SamKnause]

2. Exactly

[Bigmack]

8. Yup….as ALWAYS nt

[SamKnause]

3. The poor ALWAYS suffer the most in every situation.

[Javaman]

4. and given the willful destruction of the middle class...

in 30 - 50 years most of the world will be poor except, of course, for the 1%

[stuntcat]

5. THIS IS WHAT I'M SCREAMIN! And they already ARE.

It makes me sofa king SICK how comfy consumers can be so oblivious to the massive suffering already happening. Almost FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE die each day just of starvation. This is so obviously a symptom of over-population, land that was over-farmed and is useless now, and the fact that so much of the food that's grown is fed to animals for overweight people to eat.

Hoards of people are crowded in parts of the world that will be flooded in the next few decades. But will the selfish shits I'm surrounded by here in Obliviousland offer to take them all in?

There is NOTHING good or God-like about humans. Look at all we'll let happen, the same time we lie to ourselves about how great we are. This is exactly how a virus that's about to KILL it's ONLY host acts.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "Well, that's a relief !" -- The 1 %

"We got what we paid for." (wink, wink)

[xchrom]

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