If you ask where climate change will strike, the answer is it will strike your children and their children hard. However, six places on our planet will bear the worst ravages of climate change sooner. These are mainly developing countries, places with widespread poverty, and countries with ineffective governments, according to Time.com. We wish to spare a thought for them today.
Lagos, Nigeria Where Climate Change Will Strike Cruelly
Lagos is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, and the population will double in 15 years. It overlooks the Gulf of Guinea, where climate change will strike cruelly with rising sea waters. Farmlands will wash into the ocean, fish stocks will diminish, and drinking water in Lagos will become polluted.
Haiti faces a threat multiplier, for it is also on the Atlantic Hurricane Basin. Hurricanes are getting wetter and more intense, says the American Meteorological Society. Moreover, higher ocean levels will pollute agricultural and potable water supplies. Over 1.5 million children in Yemen already suffer from malnutrition according to the United Nations. Climate change is decreasing their chances of having sufficient water and food to survive.
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Densely Populated Manila is Close to Natural Disaster Too
The Philippines is on high alert for earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and hurricanes. The situation is even more dire in Manila, where infrastructure is poor and mass evacuation is a pipe dream.
The thirty-three low-lying islands of Kiribati in the Pacific near Australia may vanish beneath the seas in the next few decades. They have already purchased 5,000 acres of land in Fiji in case they need to relocate. Much of their marine life has left already. The United Arab Emirates is the sixth and final place where climate change will strike hard soon. They are facing extreme risk of water stress.
At least they can afford the cost of desalinating ocean water, and investing in renewable energy. However, they may have to retreat from their mega paradises along the coast.
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