Nearly 100 million people, most of them in Africa and Asia, will sink into poverty by 2030 due to the effects of climate change.
A World Bank report on climate change warns that human activity, which has impacted negatively on weather patterns, risks sinking many countries into poverty as a direct consequence of drought and floods. The report paints a sorry picture of things: From crop failures due to reduced rainfall; to spikes in food prices after extreme weather; to increased incidence of diseases after heat waves and floods. If for nothing else, at least the dire consequences of the phenomenon should rouse the world to act.