Climate Change and Development
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Climate Change and Developme nt
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Climate Change and Development. Extreme Weather Events. Vice-president of UN’s IPCC – the ‘dramatic’ weather patterns are consistent with changes in the climate caused by mankind "Extreme events are one of the ways in which climatic changes become dramatically visible.“ - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Climate Change and Development
Extreme Weather Events• Vice-president of UN’s IPCC – the ‘dramatic’
weather patterns are consistent with changes in the climate caused by mankind
• "Extreme events are one of the ways in which climatic changes become dramatically visible.“
• Lancet Medical Journal – “Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.”
Pakistan and Climate Change
Affected By A Changing World
“Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”
(UCL Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change,15 May 2009)
Pakistan’s Health Risks – up to:
• 1.5 million cases of diarrheal diseases
• 140,000 of cholera
• 150,000 cases of measles
• 350,000 cases of acute respiratory infections
• 100,000 cases of malaria
Over the next 3 months.
Ethics of Climate Change1. We know that the creation gases such as CO2, cause climate change.
5. We should take action by stopping unnecessarily contribute to the creation of gases that causes climate change in order to stop causing harm to the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.
4. We knowingly and unnecessarily put the livelihoods and lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world at risk.
3. We knowingly and unnecessarily contribute to the creation of gases that cause climate change. We can take action by contributing less.
2. We know climate change puts the livelihoods and lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world at risk.
People Causing Detrimental Change
Threats – First Feature
Those Affected
Violates Our Moral Sensibilities
Slow Change
Present Threats
Elon Musk
Changing the World
• PayPal• Tesla• Solar City• Space X
International Agreement
Birthday Cake SolutionAustralia – 6 years of emissions remaining at current rates of use and it will have to last us until 2050
We emit almost twice as much as people from Germany
We emit almost 15 times as much as people from India
We emit more that 450 times as much as people from Burkina Faso
Historical Responsibility
