CURRENT AFFAIRS CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIETY
In the coming decades, the climate crisis will cause the world to change in many expected and unexpected ways. In this issue, we bring you three of them By Nicholas K. Smith, OPEC Fund E ven if world leaders somehow get us to the “best case scenario” during certain regions cope with stronger and more frequent extreme weather events? A CHANGE OF CLIMATE PERSPECTIVE
the unfolding climate crisis, humans will still endure a more dramatic change to the planet in such a short span of time – perhaps one or two generations – than they ever have. Some of those changes are well- known and well-modeled: How will sea levels rise if ice shelves melt? How will
What might migration patterns look like if people move en masse to more temperate areas? Other changes may appear less dramatic, but will nonetheless leave their mark on who we are, how we eat and what we do for fun in minor and not-so- minor ways.
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