Move to Canada if You Want to Avoid the Worst of Climate Change
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 07. 4.08
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At the risk of gross oversimplification, let me start by revealing the Climate Change Risk report's two main takeaways: Avoid living in most parts of Africa if you're especially risk averse (75 percent of the world's 20 most vulnerable countries are found there) and move to Canada to best hedge your bets.
The Comoros Islands: most at risk
The riskiest location by far, as The Independent's Michael McCarthy describes in his summary of the Maplecroft report's findings, is a small island cluster in the Indian Ocean, the Comoros Islands, which is most at risk of succumbing to agricultural failure, rising sea levels and other climate change impacts.
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Maplecroft's vulnerability ranking methodology
The report ranked 168 countries on the basis of their ability to tackle global warming -- not, as the IPCC and other international bodies have done, their perceived vulnerabilities to its impacts. Maplecroft assessed vulnerability on the basis of 6 factors: the economy; natural resources and ecosystems; poverty, development and health; agriculture; population; settlement and infrastructure; and institutions, governance and social capital.
This information was used to assign scores on a scale of 1 to 10 (one being the most vulnerable) to each country. You can see a listing of some of the rankings in an infographic included alongside the article.
Just as developing countries, mostly in Africa, scored lowest in the British consultancy's rank of nations at risk, so did wealthy, Western countries, led by Canada, Ireland and Norway, score highest. The only exception to this trend was Uruguay, which managed to place in the top 10 least-at-risk nations -- edging out the United Kingdom, the U.S. and others.
Via ::The Independent: Why Canada is the best haven from climate change (news website)
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With the polar ice melting, and the polar bears in danger of extinction, even the "best place on the planet" is in trouble.
OO Canada what a bullshit place to live. Everything about can is hypocrisy . Canada is a Con to the world.... 29million live there for the last 30 years, what happened to those educated immigrants 2miillion plus who immigrate to Canada. I know robbed by the Canadian 10,000 dollar ticket.
Do not believe in this, Canada is conning everyone again
Completely off topic -- a response to HouseDNA.
There are some concerns about Canadian educational institutions and professional organizations not recognizing foreign credentials but there are people/groups working on correcting these problems.
Even given that concern, I know many new Canadians who have earned Canadian recognized education and experience so as to give themselves and their families a better life here in Canada than was ( or is) possible in the country they left.
Your post sounds as if you expect the "$10,000 ticket" to give educated immigrants a skip ahead of the long line of less wealthy immigrants and instant recognition of their stated accomplishments. If you were to check the immigration information provided by the government of Canada it becomes readily apparent that instant recognition of acomplishments is not part and parcel of the "$10,000 ticket".
Unfortunately to me it sounds like you might be conning yourself.
As a Canadian I can guarantee that if you don't like it here you can always head south to the USA. The have a great economy and a love of immigrants, enjoy.
"HouseDNA", you sound pretty uneducated so we'll excuse your comments. Nobody claims that Canada is a perfect place to live, but the fact is we are a country that takes care of its people. We charge higher taxes but the return for Canadian citizens is a social safety net if you lose your job or get sick. Like most countries we have lots of continuous improvements to work on, but I believe that in Canada you have one of the best chances of finding open-mindedness, tolerance and compassion. But like others commented, nobody is forcing anyone to immigrate here, that is your own choice.
Well, yes Canada is probably a pretty darn good place to be during the Climate Change/Peak Oil dilemma (likely a 15 to 20 year spell from hell, before humanity settles in to a kinder, but less gentle, future).
For anyone interested, renewable energy training and career prep in Canada just got easier to organize with http://www.CleanEnergyClassrooms.ca, the Canadian guide to sustainable energy training.
All the best in the quest,
Randyn
Whats going to happen in Canada when it warms
up a bit more and the mosquitoes and black flies
start to breed in even greater numbers than now.
Will Canada even be habitable by human beings?
Whats going to happen in Canada when it warms
up a bit more and the mosquitoes and black flies
start to breed in even greater numbers than now.
Will Canada even be habitable by human beings?
second highest per capita emissions
the impact in regions of Canada differs enourmously and so broad generalisations are difficult (esp as Canada is so big!) - Southern Alberta relies on glacier melt for water and with glaciers melting...and this was probably the 'wetest century' based on research from lakebed cores...you get the picture
i definitly agree with john taylor. this'll affect everyone everywhere.