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are we really aware? Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They're likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.  The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a report next March on how global warming is already affecting the way people live and what will happen in the future, including a worldwide drop in income. A leaked copy of a draft of the summary of the report appeared online Friday on a climate skeptic's website. Governments will spend the next few months making comments about the draft. "We've seen a lot of impacts and they've had consequences," Carnegie Institution climate scientist Chris Field, who heads the report, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "And we will see more in the future." Cities, where most of the world now lives, have the highest vulnerability, as do the globe's poorest people. "Throughout the 21st century, climate change impacts will slow down economic growth and poverty reduction, further erode food security and trigger new poverty traps, the latter particularly in urban areas and emerging hotspots of hunger," the report says. "Climate change will exacerbate poverty in low- and lower-middle income countries and create new poverty pockets in upper-middle to high-income countries with increasing inequality." For people living in poverty, the report says, "climate-related hazards constitute an additional burden." The report says scientists have high confidence especially in what it calls certain "key risks": —People dying from warming- and sea rise-related flooding, especially in big cities. —Famine because of temperature and rain changes, especially for poorer nations. —Farmers going broke because of lack of water. —Infrastructure failures because of extreme weather. —Dangerous and deadly heat waves worsening. —Certain land and marine ecosystems failing. "Human interface with the climate system is occurring and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems," the 29-page summary says. None of the harms talked about in the report is solely due to global warming nor is climate change even the No. 1 cause, the scientists say. But a warmer world, with bursts of heavy rain and prolonged drought, will worsen some of these existing effects, they say. For example, in disease, the report says until about 2050 "climate change will impact human health mainly by exacerbating health problems that already exist" and then it will lead to worse health compared to a future with no futher warming. If emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of coal, oil and gas continue at current trajectories, "the combination of high temperature and humidity in some areas for parts of the year will compromise normal human activities including growing food or working outdoors," the report says. Scientists say the global economy may continue to grow, but once the global temperature hits about 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than now, it could lead to worldwide economic losses between 0.2 and 2.0 percent of income. One of the more controversial sections of the report involves climate change and war. "Climate change indirectly increases risks from violent conflict in the form of civil war, inter-group violence and violent protests by exacerbating well-established drivers of these conflicts such as poverty and economic shocks," the report says. \_______________________ Our thirst and disregard for the true cost of disposable goods may well come back to haunt us, As does our vanity need to change car's every 3 yrs and the many other things we wastefully discard just to have the latest model... When many of these thing could have been made to be 'repairable" or "fully recyclable".. Life the article about Apple constructing to make their product obsolete by some means prior to the launch of new products. I've long since known that cell phone produces, do something to the program to insure they don't work on older units. We buy this disposable stuff without a second thought, then we deny that the climate is changing and even more so we deny the pollution we create... But here's an example: do we still think we are invincible.... ?????????? |
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the way man and nations fight for natural resources, it is not unthinkable how much more fighting will remove the individual levels, when life's basics become at higher risk.
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11/2/2013 6:40 pm |
Essentially, there is a general belief that technology will save us, but in reality technology is pushing us further from our core as humans. We no longer need to create war face to face. We no longer need to communicate face to face, We no longer need to make babies face to face. Technology may be a help to mankind, but it is also a hindrance to mankind. The solutions to global problems can be distilled to the power of the individual. Until we collectively truly begin to think globally, but act locally we will continue to follow a downward spiral of self gratification. Personally, I cannot control the global events that inflict harm on our planet, but I can control: How much waste generate How much I personally pollute the planet How much of the planets resources I use There is a study done in 2010 that says the planet can product 2.2 hectares per human on the planet earth, but we are consuming 4.1 hectares per human. When will technology save use from our own insatiable consumption?
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11/3/2013 3:43 am |
Essentially, there is a general belief that technology will save us, but in reality technology is pushing us further from our core as humans. We no longer need to create war face to face. We no longer need to communicate face to face, We no longer need to make babies face to face. Technology may be a help to mankind, but it is also a hindrance to mankind. The solutions to global problems can be distilled to the power of the individual. Until we collectively truly begin to think globally, but act locally we will continue to follow a downward spiral of self gratification. Personally, I cannot control the global events that inflict harm on our planet, but I can control: How much waste generate How much I personally pollute the planet How much of the planets resources I use There is a study done in 2010 that says the planet can product 2.2 hectares per human on the planet earth, but we are consuming 4.1 hectares per human. When will technology save use from our own insatiable consumption? That is an interesting question, worth our reflection I can conyrol: How much waste generate How much I personally pollute the planet How much of the planets resources I use Hope all of us to do so, then our world will become much more beautiful
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