According to the latest United Nations study, Africa’s past three mountain glaciers are decreasing so rapidly that they might disappear in two decades, a metaphor for the wider destruction of global warming in the mainland.
While the African states are contributing below 4% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the WOWA and others study emphasized the outsized impact on the Continent of 1,3 billion people with worsening floods, long-lasting droughts, and increasing temperatures.
“The rapid shrinking of the last remaining glaciers in eastern Africa, which are expected to melt entirely in the near future, signals the threat of imminent and irreversible change to the Earth system,” stated the World Meteorological Organization.
The study gives a refreshing overview of both the effects to date and the implications to be had if there is no quick action. By 2030 up to 118 million people living on fewer than US$1,90 a day when proper efforts are not in place, will be exposed to droughts, floods and excessive heat throughout Africa.
It cautioned that families’ daily fight for food is becoming harder as the consequences of lengthy conflicts, political instability, climatic variability, plague outbreaks, and economic crises – aggravated by the pandemic of coronaviruses – combine.
For instance, the United Nations has previously warned in Madagascar on East African island country that its first “climate hunger” is occurring around the world. As per the worldwide group, thousands are presently in dire scarcity of food and over half a million people are a little away from hunger. There is a danger of joining around 800,000 more.
Similar trendes have been mirrored in the melt of African glaciers on cold peaks in countries as remote as Peru and Tibet, providing one of the most obvious indices of the excessive climate change in global warming patterns in 50 years.
