Natural disasters could get worse

AlArabiya English

If humans don’t decarbonize, natural disasters could get worse in the future, the author of ‘Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World’ John Vaillant says.  #LosAngeles #ClimateChange

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00:00Indeed, and it sounds to me as though you're saying this is the face of things to come.

00:05We're going to have more and more of these types of phenomenon.

00:10If we don't decarbonise, absolutely.

00:14And a certain amount of this misery is already baked in.

00:17But the sooner we transition away from climate changing fossil fuels, the sooner we can start

00:24to restore some semblance of balance.

00:28We are in a world out of balance right now.

00:31And I know Dubai is almost a poster child for that.

00:35You know, it's intolerably hot in the summer.

00:38It's almost lethally hot in the summer.

00:40And without air conditioning, that city would not function, could not exist.

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