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Planet Warming: Climate Change and Sea Levels

planet warming: Failing to do so would mean a further increase in sea levels, more extreme weather events, water shortages, food scarcity, and increased numbers of climate refugees, according to Rabble. Several years ago, DARA International, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness of humanitarian action for people affected by armed conflict and natural disasters, issued a report that projected 600,000 people would die worldwide each year by 2030 due to climate change. And it called for rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented change in all aspects of society to avoid the planet warming to this degree. Having seen the UN panel report before it was released, Canada's environment minister Catherine McKenna told the Canadian Press, We acknowledge this and we all know we need to do more. Since coming to power in October 2015, it has approved the Woodfibre LNG terminal and the Trans Canada NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. fracked gas pipeline. Those words ring hollow when we look at the Trudeau government's climate record. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.