{"id":5907,"date":"2016-09-20T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2016-09-14T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T15:01:46","slug":"september-25-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/september-25-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"September 25, 2016–It’s Getting Hot in Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angie Larson, Clive, IA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Warm-up Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you thought about your carbon footprint?<\/p>\n

It’s Getting Hot in Here
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a study looking at global warming and its effects on people in Sub-Saharan Africa. By the year 2020 over 200 million people will fall further into water scarcity and poverty. In some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. This means that people living in already impoverished countries with poor incomes will fall even further into poverty.\u00a0 By United States standards that means people living on less than $1.00 a day will end up living on less than $0.50 a day at the same time the cost of living is increasing.<\/p>\n

People in sub-Saharan African countries like Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Kenya tend to live off the land and not use a lot of resources that contribute to global warming.\u00a0 The people rarely drive cars, have factories, or eat beef \u00a0(all of which significantly contribute to global warming). Yet, they are affected deeply by the changing trends in our global weather.\u00a0 Those in Sub-Saharan African countries experience longer dry seasons, more malaria, increased poverty, and starvation due to global warming.\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t this seem unfair? They don\u2019t contribute to the global problem of atmospheric changes yet will suffer the effects the greatest.<\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n