GLOBAL WARMING & THE SURVIVAL OF AFRICA

Global warming has ramifications on Africa's

1. Infrastructure

2. Food availability and supply

3. Water availability and access to it.

4. Health and safety

5. Security (armed conflict)

It is posited that since the 1800s human activities have been largely responsible for the unpredictable extreme weather patterns resulting from global warming. This is essentially as a result of the increasing use of fossil fuels that have drastically increased the carbon in the atmosphere which has a deleterious effect of increasing global temperatures.

These ramifications are manifested in the devastated infrastructure that require large funds (that are unavailable) to be reconstructed or rebuilt after every weather induced devastation; increased refugees fleeing floods and droughts; hunger; ill-health; epidemics; and the potential to stoke wars, as competition for scarce resources intensify in affected regions or adjoining countries.