PETER DU TOIT

Musings from the Southern Tip of Africa

The frontlines

Dec 17, 2022 | Climate Crisis

It is the course of wisdom to let this data really sink in:

About 3.5 billion people are on the frontlines of the evolving climate crisis.

That is about 44% of the global population.

They are beginning to feel the effects first but the impacts will come for everyone else in due course.

Which of the hotspots are seeing impacts already From the most recent IPCC report:

  • People and species who exist close to their upper thermal limits,
  • People and species along coastlines,
  • People and species who are in close association with ice or seasonal rivers

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