The continent of Africa is prone to climate change in the near future, yet it is a very poor continent with very little resources to adapt and help it's people deal with hardships. Many African people do not have a clean, reliable water source and by 2020, it is estimated that this problem will skyrocket into the hundreds of millions of people taking into account for the increasing population. As for food, agricultural production is expected to drop because of decreasing rainfall in the future climate, which decreases the amount of food available on an already starving continent. Africa will drain resource after resource until it has nothing left and is uninhabitable.
To put it simply, Africa is a region still trying to recover from many past events that left scarring impacts on almost every aspect of African society. This is not a region that is not ready to take on severe climate change because of the fact that Africa can barely, if even rely on its own resources to support it's people. Climate change can further hamper these resources that are already being depleted, which will inhibit and reverse efforts to make Africa the least bit self-sustainable. Lack of resources is the reason for illness and disease, and with the shrinking amount of inhabitable land, disease will spread quick and run rampant among the population, killing many African people.
The most interesting threat for Africa due to predicted future climate change is the increase in water stress for the people of Africa. Africa as it stands today is suffering from a severe drinking water shortage for their booming population. With the future climate change expecting to decrease rainfall, Africa will have even less available drinking water to distribute amongst and increasing amount of people. Water stress also relates to agriculture, as most of Africa's economy comes from agriculture, and is directly related to the amount of food available to the African people. With decreasing rainfall, crops will begin to die and areas once suitable for agriculture will become barren, and the people of Africa will starve even worse than they are now, if that's even possible.
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Unlike Africa, Russia has had a mostly stable climate held close at hand by normal seasonal changes that have stayed constant over the years. This type of reliance on a steady climate has benefited Russia greatly, particularly over the type of consistent hardships the people of Africa have faced. Similarly, Russia is too forced to look at potential future water struggles that may not only effect the land but animals and people as well. So there are clearly some differences between the two regions, but there are also some similarities predicted.
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