<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/208e3d8b-704e-4473-92cf-d44575499c9e/A6A6BF8F-3B85-497A-9F60-01869832AB91/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.nature.org/2009/07/human-adaptation-is-the-key-to-conservation-in-a-changing-climate/" href="http://blog.nature.org/2009/07/human-adaptation-is-the-key-to-conservation-in-a-changing-climate/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.nature.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.nature.org/2009/07/human-adaptation-is-the-key-to-conservation-in-a-changing-climate/"><P>The <A target="_blank" href="http://www.ghf-geneva.org/">Global Humanitarian Forum</A> (GHF), a think-tank lead by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, recently released <A target="_blank" href="http://www.ghf-geneva.org/OurWork/RaisingAwareness/HumanImpactReport/tabid/180/Default.aspx">a report on the human impacts of climate change</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.nature.org/2009/07/human-adaptation-is-the-key-to-conservation-in-a-changing-climate/"><P>The terrifying touchstones of human impacts by 2030 are:</p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Poverty — </STRONG>20 million extra people in poverty as a result of weather-related disasters and desertification.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Food security –</STRONG> 75 million people suffer hunger as a result of climate change induced environmental degradation (hundreds of millions are likely to suffer from degradation of fresh water supplies).</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Displacement — </STRONG>200 million people displaced as a result of sea level rise, desertification and floods.</LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A6A6BF8F-3B85-497A-9F60-01869832AB91/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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