Understanding GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Water and Energy Relief International

 ”We Lost 50% of the Arctic Ice Last Summer”
                                                       Will Steger

The social impact :

People often tend to talk exclusively about the measurable and visible consequences of the greenhouse effect. However, the political and social consequences will be equally far-reaching.

Firstly, it is a problem which cannot be solved by one country or one government. Climate change is a global phenomenon, which is all the more complex because its effects are different for each and every country. It is almost certain that specific countries will benefit from a climate change, while numerous others will only lose by it. The first group will be far less inclined to tackle the problem than the second. Differences are bound to occur among the losers, too: some will dispose of the money or the means to minimise the impact if not avoid it altogether, others will not…

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Secondly, climate change, together with other environmental issues and the phenomenon of the overpopulation, will most probably cause poverty and hunger to increase globally. That will result in an ever stronger tendency of entire populations to migrate to places where there is no hunger and poverty.

Thirdly, there is the present conflict between Northern and Southern nations, which will be accentuated. For now the problem is compounded by the question who has the right to dispose of how much of the fresh water and of the agricultural land.

However, even within one single society on its own climate change will cause problems and material for conflicts. Thus, the health care system will have to adapt to different environmental factors, as will agriculture. Industry and households, too, will need to learn to use water differently – something that cannot be achieved if we do not change our attitude. The risk of floods becomes bigger, as well as the chance of long periods of drought, so that major infrastructural works will need to be carried out. Such works usually entail huge price tags. In some way or other we shall have to think of a solution for all those problems.

Consequences of Climate Change related by:
JOLIE PITT foundation
WERI foundation
GLOBAL CLINTON INITIATIVE