• Question: what parts of the world are being mostly damaged by global warming?

    Asked by Mason to Ola on 8 Nov 2016.
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      Ola Michalec answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      It looks like parts of the world being damaged the most are those which are already vulnerable and in poverty – SE Asia, North Africa, Central America…

      Early signs of climate change (the ones which we are experiencing now) is sea level rise, flooding, more extreme and more frequent weather events.

      If a country like UK is hit with a flood (like Somerset a few years ago) people suffer and the damage is done, but the government and their insurance are helping them to recover.

      Then we can contrast it with Bangladesh, SE Asia – it’s much poorer and more more populated than the UK. If a country like Bangladesh is hit with a flood, most of the population cannot recover quickly from the damage, as they already live in poverty and the government doesn’t have good politics in place to protect them.

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