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What are the big threats?
From Section 1.1 of Week 1:
What are the big threats?
You might wish to consider the following questions when framing your answer.
- What are the key threats that climate change poses at a global scale?
- How might climate change affect you and your community?
The biggest threat climate change poses to me and my community is global warming. One of the effects would be sea-level rise and this is very concerning for someone like me who lives in the Philippines. According to models I’ve had the chance to read before, our entire country could quite literally disappear from the face of the earth of things only continue getting worse as they are.
On a less long-term note, we have already experienced, and I expect we will continue to, even worse extreme weather events. The supertyphoon of November 2013, Haiyan, was already very strong and we would never want to see anything like that occur again. Unfortunately, it could very much happen again, with climate conditions as they are, and the next ones could be much worse.