Climate Change - The Impacts
The impacts of climate change will have social, econimic, environmental and political affects on the U.K and the rest of the world. Wow, that's some big impacts man!
Lets start with the social impacts...
SOCIAL - people who live at low altitudes will struggle to grow any food (see economic impacts) causing malnutrition and starvation.
- There will be more extreme weather causing more deaths.
- The climate will get hotter causing more infectious diseases to spread.
- Areas of the world will become unhabitable as it will be to hot and dry to live there.
ECONOMIC - Farming will be affected in different ways around the world:
1. Warmer weather at higher altitudes means that some farmers can make more money from growing more crops and yielding new types.
2.At lower altitudes however farmers income may decrease as the hoter weather means it is to hot and dry to grow crops.
-With more extreme weather, more money will be spent on trying to protect ourselves against it and trying to predict it.
ENVIRONMENTAL - Sea levels are rising due to globaal warming and melting ice so some habitats will be lost. Also low lying coastal areas,islands and atolls may be submerged and lost forever.
- More deserts will form as rising temeratures and less rainfall occurs and impacts on some environments.
- Some animal species may die out as climate change destroys their habitat and conditions for living.
POLITICAL - Water will become more valuble as it becomes more scarce in some places. Countries will have to compete for the precious commodity and it could lead to wars.
- People may be forced to move so other countries will be forced to cope with higher immigration and emigration.
Phew...that was some heavy going but climate is important you know!
Lets start with the social impacts...
SOCIAL - people who live at low altitudes will struggle to grow any food (see economic impacts) causing malnutrition and starvation.
- There will be more extreme weather causing more deaths.
- The climate will get hotter causing more infectious diseases to spread.
- Areas of the world will become unhabitable as it will be to hot and dry to live there.
ECONOMIC - Farming will be affected in different ways around the world:
1. Warmer weather at higher altitudes means that some farmers can make more money from growing more crops and yielding new types.
2.At lower altitudes however farmers income may decrease as the hoter weather means it is to hot and dry to grow crops.
-With more extreme weather, more money will be spent on trying to protect ourselves against it and trying to predict it.
ENVIRONMENTAL - Sea levels are rising due to globaal warming and melting ice so some habitats will be lost. Also low lying coastal areas,islands and atolls may be submerged and lost forever.
- More deserts will form as rising temeratures and less rainfall occurs and impacts on some environments.
- Some animal species may die out as climate change destroys their habitat and conditions for living.
POLITICAL - Water will become more valuble as it becomes more scarce in some places. Countries will have to compete for the precious commodity and it could lead to wars.
- People may be forced to move so other countries will be forced to cope with higher immigration and emigration.
Phew...that was some heavy going but climate is important you know!