![]() Many coastal cities around the world are also vulnerable to sea level rise: Manhattan, New York London, England Shanghai, China Hamburg, Germany Bangkok, Thailand Jakarta, Indonesia Mumbai, India Manila, Philippines and Buenos Aires, Argentina.ĭroughts and desert expansion are also being boosted by climate change. In another case the population of the island of Tuvalu has made an agreement with New Zealand so as the latter to accept its 11,600 citizens in case the country is submerged under water. The Bangladesh’s Bhola Island in 1995 has been partially covered by the rising sea levels, leaving a half-million of its inhabitants homeless. ![]() With the increasing temperatures and the rising sea levels (because of the melting Antarctic ice) many people (climate refugees) will be forced to leave their homes due to flooding or droughts.Īlready there are examples of such cases. The changes of the planetary climate will influence also the global migratory processes. Reports[3} suggest that by the year of 2030 close to 100 million people will fall under the poverty line as a result of climate change. Such shortages will lead to rising food prices that will hit the poorest the hardest, while making traditional and sustainable ways of life that do not depend on imports practically impossible. Due to climate change there already is a reduction of wheat and maize yields in tropical and temperate regions along with some rice and soybean crops. The rapid changes in these conditions will lead to food shortages. But it is also among the most sensitive to climate change due to its dependence on fragile weather conditions. It also is the main source of subsistence and sustainability for countless indigenous communities facing hostile private and state enclosure of commons. Agriculture is of enormous importance for the countries of the south. Many reports suggest that the ongoing climate change will lead to increasing levels of poverty. It is not yet completely clear what exact effects and processes will be triggered by the climate change, but it is increasingly clear that the results will not be favorable to us, unless we decide to change the contemporary dominant paradigm with a new one that will allow us to develop our potential inside the planetary limits. It will even deepen the rest of the ongoing crises. The climate crisis, as growing number of researches are revealing, will have us pay a dear cost for the wasteful and destructive lifestyle that capitalism promotes. Surely there are international summits and agreements for tackling this problem, but their outcomes are nonbinding and often neglected in the expense of economic “prosperity”. Unlike the financial crisis, which offers a wide playground for different economic “shamans” to put forward their theories that do not leave the imaginary of economism, the climate change and the ongoing environmental degradation questions the contemporary dogmas of constant growth and domination, demanding solutions beyond them. There is reason why this serious problem is being constantly postponed by those in seats of power. One crisis in particular, however, is being unevenly neglected, in comparison with the above mentioned crises – the climate one. The ruling elites, devoted to the dominant doctrine of economism, advocate for the priority that should be given to the economy, many activists struggle for the humane treatment of migrants, while growing numbers of new age mysticists call for escapism and individual salvation. ![]() We live in times where there seems to be a crisis in just about everything – from the so called financial sector, through the contemporary mass migratory processes, to the severe corrosion of the social fabric. There is no avoiding imagining new and different scenarios than the status quo. “Despite many international meetings, dealing with every subject from biodiversity to climate change, the national political elites have found it impossible to come to meaningful agreements to deal with the environmental crisis.
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