We’ll also blame your great great grandparents for daring to innovate and move prosperity forward with the industrial revolution
Climate change: 167 million homes could be wiped out by 2040, warns charity
The world could lose 8.4 million homes a year between now and 2040, if extreme weather events continue to increase at current rates, new analysis has warned.
That would total 167 million homes, which is the equivalent of every home in the UK being wiped out six times over, according to new data published by disaster relief charity ShelterBox.
It estimates that during the three days of this week’s G7 summit in Cornwall, 69,000 homes could be lost to extreme weather globally, which would be the same as a quarter of all families in Cornwall being forced to flee. (snip)
Professor Andrew Collins at Northumbria University, who helped draw up the data, said it should “be taken extremely seriously now rather than any later”, since the estimates of the loss of homes is based on extrapolation from real data already accumulated.
“As the current state of climatic impacts already reveals, and as experienced by billions of people all over the world through the current pandemic, to ignore the warnings in the data complete with its uncertainties is to walk ill-prepared into catastrophic loss and damage,” he said.
So, what’s the consequences to ShelterBox when they are proven wrong? Anything? What about for Sky News and others who gleefully print this bit of cult propaganda, which uses “extrapolated” data? And seems to be blaming every single weather event that occurs. Things that have been happening for thousands and millions of years are now Your Fault for refusing to give up your fossil fuels and modern lifestyle.
Hey, perhaps don’t build a house in a place that could be prone to flooding, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. Things that have been happening longer than humanity.
