Enviromental Economics

Social impacts of global warming

The most appalling thing about global warming is that the real culprits will not bear the biggest brunt as it would be in most other cases . Most of the temperature increases that have been experienced in the last 100 years can be attributed to countries such as US , UK and Germany . China and India are also coming up , but it would be unfair to put them in the same league with the developed world because such a classification does not take in to consideration the concept of per

capita greenhouse gas emission . Blame games aside , global warming will have both social and economic impacts , most of which will be in the developing countries that do not have the resources to cope with the changes

Already , the president of the small nation of Kiribati is planning a gradual evacuation of his people at the rate of 1000 people per year (Shaw . The country is among those that will disappear due to climate change . Kiribati 's case is a demonstration of the enormous number of environmental refugees that will be created . A report appearing on BBC suggests that for every 10 per cent of crop yield lost in Mexico due to global warming , 2 of Mexicans will want to migrate to the US (BBC Such migrations are a pointer to the families that will be broken up as people move away to escape the adverse effects of climate change

In the process as well , new cultures may...