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February 24, 2021 - UN News Centre

Poor and vulnerable bear brunt of climate change

Poor and vulnerable bear brunt of climate change
Flooding in Asia, climate crisis, extreme weatherFile Photo / © Photabulous

The UN is warning that much more needs to be done to anticipate, and plan for, the extreme weather events that put millions in need of urgent assistance.

In 2019, 34 million people globally were acutely food insecure due to climate extremes, and weather-related hazards triggered some 24.9 million displacements in 140 countries.

Read the report by the The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.
Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
Captain G. M. Gilbert
American Military, Chief Psychologist, Nuremberg trials

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