Developed Countries Must Address Global Warming To Prevent Disease, Hunger In Developing World

Developed Countries Must Address Global Warming To Prevent Disease, Hunger In Developing World: "Pollution from the world's wealthiest countries is spreading disease and hunger in developing countries, according to a new Oxfam International report, which calls on developed countries to address global warming when G8 leaders meet in Italy, the Globe and Mail reports. The report, titled 'Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty,' says, 'It is in the tropics where the bulk of humanity lives - many of them in poverty - that climate change is hitting now and hitting hardest' (Bailey, 7/6).

Shifting seasons are destroying harvests resulting in widespread hunger, according to the report, which warns that multiple climate effects could reverse 50 years of work to end poverty, Xinhua reports. The report, which 'combines the latest scientific observations on climate change, and evidence from the communities Oxfam works with in almost 100 countries around the world,' predicts that by 2020, maize yields will drop by 15 percent or more in much of sub-Saharan Africa and in most of India, Xinhua writes (Ooko, 7/6)."