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Article: Catastrophe! (history shows that climate change has economic and demographic consequences).
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- New Internationalist
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- December 1, 1999
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The case for the links between global warming and extreme weather grows ever stronger, Events like this year's unprecedented floods in China, to cite just one example, show how extreme weather impacts on the world economy and how climate change can even trigger epidemics, Indeed, late this summer helicopters were busy spraying New York to counter an outbreak of St Louis Encephalitis triggered by global warming. Climate change won't just make sea levels rise in a few unfortunate locations or make life miserable for El Nino victims, It has the capacity to change the economic, political and demographic shape of the world.
According to historian David Keys, the last ...