According to an expert conference in London, climate change is most likely going to cause many problems to arise. These conflicts are expected to affect poor countries in the tropics much more because they are important areas to trades with. Large countries such as the US and China are dependent on many resources from these areas also. The cost of fuel and energy will go up greatly. Without fuel, food shortages will begin to happen and lead to mass migration and civil wars over resources. In the article, it even says that large companies such as Starbucks are worried that climate change will ruin their business. Starbucks said last week that climate change could threaten the world’s coffee supply in 20-30 years. These conflicts will be brought up in the annual UN climate conference in about 6 weeks.
Climate change may also cause many health problems. Mostly in developing countries, hunger and malnutrition would probably increase. This would also cause an increase in infectious diseases in these areas. Reducing carbon emissions would bring about many health benefits however. For example, in would greatly improve air quality. It would also decrease the amounts of preventable deaths.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15342682
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