Every day, Axel de Tarlé takes stock of the economy.
The economy with Axel de Tarlé. It is the poor countries that will suffer the most from climate change. Rich countries, they could even enjoy! This is shown in a study from Stanford University, California.
Yes, it is a study that starts from the observation that there is an ideal temperature for the productivity of agriculture, labor, human health. According to this survey, the cold countries are approaching this ideal temperature and thus gain in wealth. And the warm countries are moving away from this ideal temperature, and therefore are getting poorer. Cold countries are often rich and hot countries are often poor. The numbers are terrible.
Already with consequences that can be calculated and that are enormous. Between 1961 and 2010, global warming would have reduced by 31% the wealth per capita in India. The study proposes a very precise map: for Sudan, it is - 36%, -29% in Nigeria and + -25% in Brazil. In contrast, per capita wealth in Norway jumped + 34%. The study also points out that for the more temperate countries (United States, Japan, China, France) the impact is less visible.
But, it is terrible, because the countries victims of global warming, like Sudan, are the countries that pollute the least!
Yes it is Machiavellian, the victims are innocent while the guilty (the polluters of the North) are rewarded. Norway's rich country and a major oil producer which, according to this study, benefits from global warming. This is why the scientists behind this study call for North-South solidarity. Polluters in the North must help innocent victims in the South! At the Paris Agreements, the countries of the North committed to creating a $ 100 billion aid fund for poor countries to help them in the energy transition. In other words, the aid is not up to par.
It's very selfish, but that means we have to expect floods of climate refugees who will come to take refuge in the countries of the North, in Europe, when the countries of the South will have become unbearable because of this warming. we will have provoked. This is to say the cascading consequences that come with this rise in temperatures.