Asia: more than 100 million people are at risk of starvation due to climate change

The warming of the Earth may cause a serious shortage of water and food for 130 million people in Asia from now until 2050 if the international community does not urgently implement preventive measures in this regard.

According to the Intergovernmental Working Group on climate change, Asia will be severely affected by climate change in the next few decades.

Achim Steiner, general director of the UN Environment Program, an uncontrolled climate change will be an unspeakable disaster for the environment and the economy, but especially a tragedy for people.

According to the report of the experts, there will be an additional 130 million people in Asia who are at risk of starvation due to climate change from now to 2050. In particular, the people of the Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand will must experience severe droughts and floods from now until 2030. Scientists claim that when the Earth's temperature increases by 2 ^° C, rice production in China can be reduced from 5% to 12 %, this rate in Bangladesh will be 10% and the wheat output here may drop by 30% from now until 2050.

The hot weather also makes the already serious shortage of water in India even more intense. In addition, nearly 100 million people in Asia will often face the risk of flooding due to rising sea levels.

Scientist Kevin Hennessy said Australians and New Zealanders will become accustomed to extremely harsh climatic phenomena, which are almost certainly waves of hot air leading to floods, landslides, droughts and storms. The element will increase the level of occurrence with strong intensity. This weather condition will cause a sharp decline in agricultural production in southern and eastern Australia, eastern New Zealand along with the expansion of tropical diseases such as Dengue dengue .

The expert team emphasized that only the world's community efforts in reducing greenhouse gas emissions could slow the warming process of the Earth's climate. According to scientists, governments need to implement many preventive measures such as building limits along the shores that are threatened by climate change, establishing corridors that allow dangerous animals engineered extinction, while improving storage and water conservation.

L.XAN