Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Plaza de España in Seville and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are all in danger of ending up at the bottom of the sea if humanity does not make serious efforts to curb climate change.
The bleak prediction comes from a new study by environmental group Climate Central, according to which current polluting emissions will increase world temperatures by three degrees Celsius causing a rise in seas that will engulf some fifty cities around the world, urged to immediately implement “Defensive measures”. Without significant intervention, the lands inhabited by nearly 10 percent of the world’s current population (over 800 million people) are at risk of flooding. However, many small island nations could be almost totally submerged.
The areas most at risk, inhabited by about 600 million people, are found in Asia, which has eight of the ten major nations most prone to natural disasters triggered by climate change. In China alone, nearly 43 million people live in territories destined, by the end of this century, to be submerged by the sea if global temperatures rise by three degrees Celsius. India, Vietnam and Indonesia are also among the nations most at risk. Yet local politics does not seem to have understood the gravity of the situation. These states increased coal consumption and mining capacity between 2015 and 2019.
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