Surviving climate change

By Gan Pei Ling
editor@thenutgraph.com

"WE should do it for our children and future generations!"

This is one of the most common rallying cries used by some individuals and organisations to convince the public to take action to combat climate change. It's an appealing sound bite, but does it feel urgent?

We tend to talk about climate change as if it is some distant and long-term issue, yet the impacts of climate change are in fact already threatening people's survival around the world. The president of the Maldives is looking for new land to migrate his population of 350,000 to because his nation faces the real threat of sinking due to rising sea levels. At the same time, increased and more intense floods in Bangladesh are already disrupting food production and displacing millions of its coastal people.

Source: The Nut Graph