It’s all too easy to forget that climate change is already costing lives. Droughts are more frequent, crops are failing, livestock dying, and it’s the world’s poor who are suffering the most.
In Kenya the failure of the country’s ‘long’ rains means that nearly four million people are already in need of food aid.
Watching this video of Christian Aid’s partners distributing water in rural Kenya gives an idea of how desperate the situation has become –
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/appeals/climate-change-costs-lives/index.aspx.