A new study from the Global Humanitarian Forum, estimates that climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness, and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030.
"Climate change is the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time, causing suffering to hundreds of millions of people worldwide," Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general and Global Humanitarian Forum president, said in a statement.
The report says poor and developing countries bear more than nine-tenths of the human and economic burden of climate change, while the 50 poorest countries contribute less than 1 percent of the carbon emissions that are heating up the planet.
From: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2009/05/29/report_estimates_deaths_by_warming/
6.16.2009
Global Warming
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Perhaps the most powerful part of that story was the last paragraph:
"The study warns that the true human impact of global warming is likely to be far more severe than it predicts, because it uses conservative UN scenarios. New scientific evidence points to greater and more rapid climate change."
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