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World’s poorest hit hard as climate-related disasters put food security, jobs at risk: UN
Globe & Mail ^ | Nov. 26, 2015 | Eric Reguly

Posted on 11/26/2015 3:04:23 PM PST by rickmichaels

Natural disasters triggered by climate change are increasing in frequency and hitting farmers in the developing world especially hard, threatening food security and employment in the poorest regions, the United Nations said in a new report.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, called Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security, was released Thursday, four days before the official start of the Paris climate-change conference, where the developing world will seek hundreds of billions of dollars in funding from wealthy countries to adapt to, and overcome losses from, potentially catastrophic climate change.

Concerns that climate-related losses could rise were reinforced on Wednesday, when the World Meteorological Organization reported that 2015 is on course to be the hottest year on record, and the years from 2011 to 2015 the warmest five-year period on record.

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To: The_Reader_David

So if a monsoon hits someplace in the world the poor take a beating and rich people don’t even get their feet wet?


21 posted on 11/26/2015 5:32:31 PM PST by jmacusa
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To: rickmichaels

Monstrous government entities creating problems or simply making them up in order to demand more money to do more of the same.


22 posted on 11/26/2015 5:41:34 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: rickmichaels

The poorest countries biggest threat is the UN and the NWO threatening their access to cheap energy under the guise of the Climate Change scam.


23 posted on 11/26/2015 5:54:20 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (If you are reading this then you are one of the 6.5 billion people the NWO wants to kill!)
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To: rickmichaels

Breaking news:
Kenyan pissed in the ocean and caused Global Flooding.
Wymyn and chilren hit hardest.
Taxes going up.
Deeeveloping!

Oh, aaaaand 95% of scientwists agree after collecting biiiig bonus.


24 posted on 11/26/2015 7:07:32 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: hadaclueonce

This is the first author- caution language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA


25 posted on 11/26/2015 7:39:27 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: rickmichaels
55 years ago, when I was a teen, my parents' church was sending food to Africa. Back then the reason was "crop failure".

Two years ago our church was sending food to Africa, but now the reason was "global warming".

The real reason was "consequence of socialism" in both cases, but now they want a much larger percentage of my income to try to fix it.

26 posted on 11/26/2015 8:02:10 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: jmacusa
Oh, the rich get their feet wet, but they can decamp to a hotel out of the storm's way, or already live in a place proof against severe weather, rather than a leaky shack.

My point is that noting the poorest are harder hit by natural disasters than the rich is a truism that does actually have any real application to the public policy question at hand, namely the left's attempt to use climate modeling as yet another excuse for the expansion of state power.

27 posted on 11/26/2015 8:33:24 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: rickmichaels

Massive redistribution of wealth, deindustrializing developed nations, and general Marxism can change the weather.


28 posted on 11/26/2015 8:54:19 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: rickmichaels
The world's poorest are being hit hardest by all corrupt governments out there. The "climate Change" meme is their tool to extend their reach to start hitting the not-so-poor just as hard as they keep slamming the truly poor...

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29 posted on 11/27/2015 4:14:22 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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World’s poorest hit hard as climate-related disasters put food security, jobs at risk: UN

Best news I've read all morning.

I hate the world's poorest.

30 posted on 11/27/2015 4:26:16 AM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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To: The_Reader_David

Mother Nature wipes out anything that gets in her way, from pricey hotels and the infrastructure that supports them to the lowest living in a mud hut. It’s nonsense to think anyone can escape the weather and it’s consequences.


31 posted on 11/27/2015 9:04:19 AM PST by jmacusa
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