Climate-based Casualties

In recent years, rising sea levels, desertification, and changing rainfall patterns have emerged as symptoms of the overall climate change that Earth is experiencing. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, speaking on behalf of The Global Humanitarian Forum, released the think-tank’s recent discovery that climate change causes 300,000 deaths a year, primarily in developing countries. In fact, the study showed that 99 percent of the effects were hitting developing countries the hardest, despite the fact that they’re collectively responsible for less than one percent of the world’s carbon changing emissions. The silver lining? Annan’s think-tank hopes this data will support a global treaty, designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, that’s up for consideration in Copenhagen this December.