[Bahauddin Foizee] While coastal areas of countries like Bangladesh, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka would disappear gradually, other small island nations like Micronesia and the Maldives would be submerged under water almost completely, turning millions of inhabitants living in these countries into climate refugees.
Tag: Environment
Does Poor People Lack Concern about the Environment?
[Simi Garewal] Poor people are perhaps more concerned about the adverse affects of climate change, but what's lacking is their participation to save our planet from such adverse affects.
Large-scale Farming Good for Environment
[Robin Limb] Innovation, entrepreneurship and technology have important roles to play in feeding the world’s growing population.
Low oil price and the renewable industry
[Robin Limb] The oil giants have never truly engaged with the concept of renewable energy, mainly because it is tiresome, high cost, and fraught with issues surrounding government support and legislation. To this day, it remains more expeditious and economic to simply keep pumping the 'black stuff' [read oil] out of the ground. The whole oil supply chain is geared to fossil fuels, and although it is technically possible to include bio-fuels such as ethanol and diesel at low levels, the economics are unexciting and uncertain.
Climate Change is Happening, But Not Global Warming
[Robin Limb]
One by one, there are more and more reputable scientists and commentators coming off the fence and admitting that there is no real, peer-reviewed, evidence that man-made global warming is to blame for the natural weather events that we observe on a daily basis.
Militarization’s Brutal Assault on the Environment
[Bahauddin Foizee]
Wars and militarization around the globe have been seriously impacting the environment of not only the war-torn countries, but also the other countries around the globe.
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