3RD WORLD COUNTRIES HAVE INCREASED RISK FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

RESEARCH. Duncan Green of Oxfam International, author of "FROM POVERTY to POVERTY" posted recently in one of his blogs at Oxfamblogs.org that there  are ongoing researches that look at the probability of those countries who produce lesser greenhouse gasses to be largely affected by the phenomenal climate change.
According to the article, "To estimate the impact of climate change on people, scientists from McGill University, Montreal, developed a new metric called Climate Demography Vulnerability Index (CDVI). This takes into account how regional climate will change as well as how much local population is expected to grow. They incorporated this index into a global map and found highly vulnerable regions included central South America, the Middle East and both eastern and southern Africa. Less vulnerable regions were largely in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere."
The first map below, courtesy of Oxfamorg.com, shows those areas who produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. And the other map shows the vulnerability of these areas to climate change.


GREENHOUSE EFFECT is a atmospheric phenomenon that happens when gases entrap heat in the Earth's surface, leading to what they call as GLOBAL WARMING. According to National Geographic, most greenhosue gas emissions are from "fossil fuels in cars, factories and electricity production." When we were kids, we believe that Carbon Dioxide emissions have been the cause of all of these, it is correct, but there are even more gases that contribute to the danger twice as much as CO2. Methane for example which is capable to trap heat to up to twenty times as CO2 can, and Nitrous Oxide can entrap  150 times of Methane's capability, that's 300  times more dangerous than CO2. "Other contributors include methane released from landfills and agriculture (especially from the digestive systems of grazing animals), nitrous oxide from fertilizers, gases used for refrigeration and industrial processes" and as our forest reserves decrease per year, the more CO2 there is left in the atmosphere unabsorbed and unused. Harmful.

3RD WORLD. I am from the Philippine Islands. And I am not even from the Northern part of my country where pollution seemed to be so impossible to resolve. I am from a city where industrialization is a boom but we can still enjoy the  blessing of fresh air. We are no match to the extra large and extra fast paced economy and lifestyle of Metro Manila, and so are we not even half of bustling lifestyle of the West. We are home to some of the biggest Sugar Milling Companies of the country and may as well be considered adding up to the damage, but everybody is, good thing for us we still have vast greeneries to neutralize those gases, but that may not assure as of any safety. Because we may have lots of trees to normalize our environmental problems, we are still on that part of that said map believed to be greatly affected by the the consequences. I am no scientist and I am not even a part of those factories to really be so serious about it. But I care for the Earth as much as anybody is, everybody is, and that I know is a serious matter. I guess this may be a warning to everyone. We only have a lifetime of health and a wonderful planet to offer our kids. We should think about the younger people to, before the time is over.

  

Video courtesy of youtube.com/dannyzhao. Photos courtesy of NationalGeographic & www.Oxfamblogs.org