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NATIONAL POST | Climate change threatens crops, water for billions around globe: study
Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world’s poorest people are at risk. “There’s a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it,” said Elena Bennett, who studies ecological systems at McGill University and is one of the paper’s 21 co-authors.
“We see many more people who are at higher risk of water pollution, coastal storms, crops that aren’t pollinated to their fullest extent. That ends up playing out a lot more in developing countries than in developed countries.”The report says Africa and South Asia are likely to be the most threatened. Well over half the population there could face higher than average risks, it says.
