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Global Climate
Change - Impacts
- ECONOMIC
- Farmers will need to be able to grow
new crops in warmer climate
- Money will be spent on adapting
crops to extreme weather
- Money will be spent on:
-predicting extrme weather
-reducing impacts
-rebuilding after them
- Inductries which help prevent from these
weather events will become bigger and
make more money
- Farmers will need to be able to grow
new crops in warmer climate
- SOCIAL
- Diseases which dont exist in UK climate
could become common e.g malaria
- Farmers will not be able to grow crops
in lower latitudes leading to starvation
- Places could become uninhabitable so
people will need to move causing
overcrowding
- Cold related deaths will not be
a problem, but warm related
deaths will be
- Diseases which dont exist in UK climate
could become common e.g malaria
- ENVIRONMENTAL
- Global warming cause sea level to rise and will cause low laying
islands to be submerged e.g TUVALU
- High temperatures and low rainfall mean
environments will turn into deserts
- Species that do not adapt to the
changing environment will die out
- Global warming cause sea level to rise and will cause low laying
islands to be submerged e.g TUVALU
- POLITICAL
- Water will become a high demand which
could put countries into war over it
- Gouvernment put under pressure to
reduce effects of climate change
- Increased immigration
and emigration
- Water will become a high demand which
could put countries into war over it
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