The climate emergency really is a new type of crisis - consider the 'triple inequality' at the heart of it | Adam Tooze | The Guardian - 0 views
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Stare at a climate map of the world that we expect to inhabit 50 years from now and you see a band of extreme heat encircling the planet’s midriff. Climate modelling from 2020 suggests that within half a century about 30% of the world’s projected population – unless they are forced to move – will live in places with an average temperature above 29C. This is unbearably hot. Currently, no more than 1% of Earth’s land surface is this hot, and those are mainly uninhabited parts of the Sahara.
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The scenario is as dramatic as it is because the regions of the world affected most severely by global heating – above all, sub-Saharan Africa – are those expected to experience the most rapid population growth in coming decades.
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But despite this population growth, they are also the regions that, on current trends, will contribute least to the emissions that drive the climate disaster.
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