Looming ‘Climate Apartheid’ Could Split the World into the Rich and the Dead, UN Warns – Live Science
Article Synopsis – According to a new report, the effects of climate change may unequally hit the poor so hard that “the very concept of human rights might break with them”. Hundreds of millions of people in the poorest countries “will face food insecurity, forced migration, disease, and death”. U.N. human rights and poverty specialist Philip Alston believes we may be heading toward a a “climate apartheid” where the rich can pay to escape the ravages of climate change while everyone else “is left to suffer”. To read the actual article click here.