Facing Climate Change In Iran
A Witness To Iran’s Intensifying Struggle With Climate Change
Carolyn Kormann, Janury 2, 2017 (New Yorker)
“…[There is drought in both central and northern Iran where, not] long ago, freshwater from the oak-forested mountains on the Iraqi border replenished…[Lake Urmia and other lakes each year and rebalanced] salinity…Tourism, fishing, and agriculture prospered…[In the 1990s], drought set in, Urmia’s water level dropped, and] the whole ecosystem began to break down…Today, the lake is a vast expanse of salt flats…[and the population of climate refugees in Iran is rising]…Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that he believes that fossil-fuel consumption is the main driver of climate change...[ Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability forecasts] that, by 2070, if worldwide emissions aren’t sufficiently reduced, the Persian Gulf would experience heat waves impossible for many humans to survive…” click here for more
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