Climate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems - but there's still hope
Its relentless trajectory: To bring it on, all we have to do is, um, nothing. Its overwhelming complexity: To fix it, not only do we have to do something, but, as Naomi Klein has said, we pretty much have to “change everything” about how our economy and society operates. Its asymmetries of power: Those of us most historically responsible for causin
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It is a question of when—not if—large and growing areas of countries become uninhabitable owing to prolonged freshwater shortages, extreme heat, widespread flooding, and frequent, costly storms. Bangladesh may well be the first country with a substantial population to face this problem on a large scale. The amount of land able to support human exis
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
The growing season will also get shorter; at 4 degrees Celsius of warming, most of sub-Saharan Africa could see it shrink by 20 percent or more. When you’re already living on the edge, any
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The world has become more resilient to disasters, but investment is needed to save morelives
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