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'The Human Face of Climate Change' photo exhibition helps CARE visualise and explain how many of the people we work with are experiencing the dramatic consequences of climate change in their day-to-day lives. CARE is using this photo exhibition to inform key decision makers that the world's poorest people are the hardest hit by climate change though they have contributed least to causing it.
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The Human Face of Climate Change
- I have contributed the least to it, yet I am paying the highest price
Photo: Tine Harden
- Our crops are failing
Mos t o f t h e wo r l d ’s p oo r e s t p e op l e a r e f a r me r s . H i ghe r temperatures and changing rainfal l pat terns, as wel l as worsening f loods and droughts, are k il ling their crops. Rainfal l in some Sub-Saharan countr ies has declined by 25 percent in the last 30 years, and the number of food emergenc ies has tr ipled since the mid-1980s. In some of the poorest Af r ican countr ies, climate change may reduce har vest s by as much as 50% by 2020.
The Human Face of Climate Change
Photo: Brendan Bannon
- We must walk even further for water
Water is l i fe. Peasant farmers depend on rain-fed agr iculture and water holes for themselves and their l ivestock. The number of Afr icans l iv ing with water scarcity is projected to double f rom 300 mil l ion in 1990 to 600 mil l ion by 2025. C l imate change wi l l be responsible for up to 250 mil l ion of this total .
The Human Face of Climate Change
Photo: Tine Harden
The Human Face of Climate Change
- I only get one meal a day
Climate change threatens to ravage both nat ional and household economies around the wor ld. It could knock a s much a s 20 percent of f the global GDP, with average consumpt ion level s dropping an equal amount . While this would hur t ever yone, i t would hur t poor people the most. Climate change could make it impossible for hundreds of mil lions of parents to meet their children’s basic nutr it ional needs.
Photo: Tine Harden
Photo: Ami Vitale
The Human Face of Climate Change
- Our health will decline
Cl imate change is increasing the natural range and vi rulence of insect-transmitted diseases l ike malar ia. It is a lso tr igger ing diseases associated with droughts and f loods, such as typhoid and cholera. This threatens to overwhelm exist ing health care faci l i t ies. Worsening hurr icanes and cyclones are also damaging health care faci l i t ies in many poor countr ies that cannot afford to rebui ld them.
The Human Face of Climate Change
- We fled from a conflict
Cl imate change is t r igger ing smal l-scale conf l icts in Afr ica, Asia and Latin America – most ly as a result of greater water scarcity. C l imate change is apparently playing an important role in larger conf l icts as wel l , including the humanitar ian disaster in Darfur that has caused approximately 200,000 deaths and led 2.5 mil l ion people to f lee their homes.
Photo: Evelyn Hockstein
The Human Face of Climate Change
- We had to leave our homes
Pack up or per ish. Forced migrat ion is the harsh real i ty await ing many peop le a f fec ted by c l imate change. Reduced ra in fa l l , lengthening droughts, r is ing sea- levels and re lated phenomena are expected to cause between 200 mil l ion and one bi l l ion people – most of whom are poor, uneducated and unwelcome elsewhere – to evacuate their homes by 2050.
Photo: Tine Harden
- You need to care Photo: Tine Harden
The c it izens and governments of industr ialized countr ies have to lead the way in reduc ing global greenhouse gas emissions. Only then w il l others do their par t . At the same t ime, we have to dramat ical ly expand access to f inanc ial resources, informat ion and technical suppor t that fac ilitates poor nat ion’s adaptat ion to a more rough and changing climate.
The Human Face of Climate Change
