| Global warming would also destroy crops and other | | | | countries might need to move, which would put |
| infrastructure and lead to intensive migration to other | | | | added pressure on neighboring land. |
| countries. Some countries would be forced to | | | | Other countries may feel the effect of increased |
| construct adequate sea defenses in order to protect | | | | migration and this could cause hardship if population |
| their land from flooding. This would cause a great | | | | levels rise in certain areas. The effects of drought |
| deal of financial input for which many countries may | | | | would also be to disrupt food production throughout |
| not be able to contribute. | | | | the world and destroy agricultural land forever. This |
| There have already been pictures and images of | | | | could increase the cost of food staffs including crops |
| polar bears being caught on isolated ice caps because | | | | leading to a breakdown in some economies. |
| of increased melting around them. The number of | | | | As temperatures rise, drought is not the only |
| polar bears could reduce to a small level or even | | | | hardship. Inhabitants could find the temperatures as |
| become extent all together in the wild. Increasing sea | | | | such that they cannot withstand them and it is |
| levels and less arctic ice would help shipping routes | | | | thought that a significant number of people could die |
| but destroy some of the living areas for polar bears | | | | as heat waves spread across countries, especially in |
| and seals. It is thought that some areas of land, | | | | summer months. Thirty thousand people died in |
| specifically in the Pacific, could disappear all together | | | | extreme weather in 2003 and it is thought that this |
| as sea levels rise. | | | | can easily be replicated. |
| Another effect of global warming is that of increasing | | | | Increasing heat and decreasing water levels can also |
| the effects of drought. Droughts, which are fairly | | | | lead to increased tropical storms, which can lead to |
| common in some parts of Africa, would become | | | | not only death but also destruction of homes and |
| more common and more prolonged. This could lead | | | | communities. This could have a side effect of |
| to increased hardship amongst communities and | | | | increasing insurance claims and therefore insurance |
| famines. Local farmland would be destroyed leading | | | | policies. The overall effect could be that some people |
| to increased unemployment and migration of the | | | | may not be insured at all in the future and therefore |
| population. In fact millions of people from developing | | | | can lose everything. |