As a result of massive climate change by 2100, hundreds of millions of people will be forced to save their lives from deadly weather events. Climatologists are already predicting the possible death of 150,000 people in Europe.
The number of victims of extreme weather events is at risk of increasing 50 times, two out of three people on the continent will not be able to escape the consequences of natural disasters, scientists from the European Commission found.
Hundreds of thousands of people will die in the near future from heatstroke, heart problems, and floods and hurricanes. Droughts in this new world will lead to food shortages, people will be at risk of fatal diseases and infections, and agriculture will be destroyed by numerous fires.
Experts have derived all these disappointing forecasts from the analysis of data on extreme weather events and their comparison with forecasts over the past decades, reports The Independent.
Humanity can avoid a terrible fate only if the governments of all leading states treat the ecological situation with maximum attention. Three quarters of the currently mined resources (coal, oil and gas) must remain intact in the depths if humanity is to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The European Commission calls on states to abandon the development of new coal mines and new deposits of natural gas and oil and invest in renewable energy sources.
People who will witness the dire consequences of climate change in the future are already born and are living in our time. Therefore, the speakers believe, there is still hope for an energy revolution and global changes in relation to the ecology of the planet.
Elena Yakovleva
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