Climate Change Threatens “World Peace and Security,” says United Nations

 

 

Climate change poses a major threat to future peace and security, a senior UN official has warned. Achim Steiner from the UN Environment Program said climate change would also “exponentially” increase the scale of natural disasters.

 

But the 15-member council apparently failed to agree on whether climate change itself was a direct threat to international peace and security, even after a rebuke by the United States which described the lack of consensus as “pathetic.”

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Crazy Environmental & Global Warming Politics News

 

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Michele Bachmann, Eric Cantor Part Of ‘Dirty Money Team’

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An Assault on the Clean Water Act

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Firms urge EU to allow unapproved GMOs in food imports

Rail-Wary FL Gov. Scott Threw Caution to the Wind in Supporting SunRail

GOP Relights Effort to Extinguish Billions in Consumer Savings — as NBC Blows the Light Bulb Standards Story Entirely

Will North America Be the New Middle East?

 

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Disappearing world: 100 places under threat from climate change | Environment | The Guardian

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Energy Savings of “Low-Hanging Fruit” [INFOGRAPHIC]

από την  WellHome υπέροχο περιβαλλοντικό infographics για την Planetsave

Εδώ είναι το πρώτο, που μιλάει για την τεράστια εξοικονόμηση ενέργειας (η οποία μεταφράζεται σε εξοικονόμηση χρημάτων), εάν περισσότεροι άνθρωποι κανουν πράξη την  αλλαγή των λαπτήρων πυρακτώσεως, με  λάμπτήρες εξοικονόμησης ενέργειας, αποσυνδέσουν ανενεργές ηλεκτρικές συσσκευές,αγοράσουν εναν χρονομετρημένη θερμοστάτη, χαμηλώνετε τη θερμοκρασία του θερμοσίφωνα, και πολλά άλλα.

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8 Countries About to Go Underwater, Literally - Planet Green

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We've all heard about the possibility that the Maldives could go underwater because of rising seas caused by climate change. But there are other nations facing the same risk.

Not that going underwater is the only form of danger: climate change is finding vulnerabilities in countries from Mexico to Russia, droughts in already-arid countries will grow worse, and the number of climate refugees worldwide is growing steadily.

Rainforests are threatened, disease is exacerbated, and hardest hit are poor populations and women around the world.

But, it's still probably fair to say that the greatest threat from climate change faces small island nations that could be washed underwater with just a slight rise in sea levels. Here's a look at a few of those nations.

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