“A child born in 2021 will live on average through seven times as many heat waves, twice as many wildfires and nearly three times as many droughts, crop failures and river floods as their grandparents,” NBC News reported on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, based on a study “released Sunday that looks at how different generations will be affected by climate change.” (Read story here.)
“The results, published in the journal Science,” (here), “found that global warming will disproportionately affect the lives of young people and children …. The research is the first to … quantify how people in different age groups … will experience climate disasters across their lifetimes.”
The lead researcher warned, “We found that everyone under 40 today will live [through] an unprecedented … exposure to heat waves, droughts and floods.” His message is clear: To escape the coming climate disasters, either be born before 1981 or not at all.
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