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Global Climate Change - Impacts
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Geography Physical Mind Map on Global Climate Change - Impacts, created by Nico16 on 23/04/2013.
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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
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
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
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
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