Episode 20: Global Warming & The Poor

Let's Talk Global Warming

English - March 28, 2021 03:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB
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Next Episode: Episode 21: Cold Weather & Global Warming

The economy is one topic that always comes up during any discussion of global warming. But, what about those people who are often overlooked by the modern dog-eat-dog global markets of today? In this episode, we discuss how global warming affects those who are poor more than anyone else as well as how global warming is preventing those in poverty from escaping poverty.

Sources:
Environment and Development Economics Journal:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-development-economics/article/poverty-and-climate-change-introduction/EAE3DA276184ED0DAEE6062E5DB0DB17

Paper from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

https://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2017/wp152_2017.pdf

World Bank Group:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283642157_Shock_Waves_Managing_the_Impacts_of_Climate_Change_on_Poverty

Enterprise

https://www.enterprisecommunity.org/blog/climate-change-disproportionately-affects-low-income-communities

Music:
“News Theme” by Kevin MacLeod licensed under CC BY. Edited to be shorter but content was not changed.

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