Climate Change could kille 182 million Africans by 2100 -- Christian Aid

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Published on Monday, May 15, 2006 by the Independent / UK
West's Failure over Climate Change 'Will Kill 182m Africans'
by Philip Thornton

The poorest people in the world will be the chief victims of the West's failure to tackle global warning, with millions of Africans forecast to die by the end of the century, Christian Aid says in a report out today.

The potential ravages of climate change are so severe that they could nullify the efforts to end the legacy of poverty and disease across developing countries, the charity says.

The report highlights the fact that, despite hand-wringing in the West about the threat to its coastlines from rising temperatures, it is the poorest who are likely to suffer most. It estimates that a "staggering" 182 million people in sub-Saharan Africa could die of disease directly attributable to climate change by 2100. Many millions more face death and devastation from climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict.

Sir John Houghton, former co-chairman of the scientific assessment working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has given his support to the report's findings. "This report exposes clearly and starkly the devastating impact that human-induced climate change will have on many of the world's poorest people," he said.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0514-04.htm

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1. The rich get new ocean-front property, the poor die. nt

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2. Basically

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3. And then, the rich die because they cannot profit any...

longer from the poor "workers" they used to exploit because they're dead (and so is the crop that can't grow anymore to feed the food chain so the rich can't survive eating pills and drinking poisoned water).

The End. (?)

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5. Here are maps based on complete melting of the polar caps

http://www.clockwk.com/waterworld/

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4. And that's just in Africa, people

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6. We need to get this news out

Not controlling global warming = MURDER

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7. As will be the water and arable land wars that will ensue