Billions Face Forced Migration As Climate Change Heats Up The Planet, Study Says
Climate change will make many areas extremely hot in the years to come. People who inhabit these lands would be compelled to move to live. Billions of people in the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East could be forced to migrate to cooler places as temperatures continue to rise.
How climate change will affect different countries
An interdisciplinary US research team has found that if temperatures rise beyond 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, many lower-income nations will become inhabitable owing to the heat.
An increase of 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels would require more than four billion people living in India, Pakistan, eastern China, and sub-Saharan Africa to experience intolerable heat. A rise of 3 degree Celsius would cause an increase in heat levels across the Eastern Seaboard, central United States, South America, and Australia.
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In the face of extreme heat, humans would no longer be able to naturally cool themselves and would be forced to move to cooler regions amid higher risk of death. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)?stated that radically reducing emissions is the only safeguard against climate change, researchers from?Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Purdue University College of Sciences and Purdue Institute for a Sustainable Future in the US said.
Since the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th Century, temperatures around the world have increased by 1 degree Celsius.
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In 2015, 196 nations signed the Paris Agreement to limit temperature increase to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. After a certain point, human bodies cannot withstand heat and will become susceptible to health problems and even death.
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