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Climate change is going to make inequality
even worse than it already is

By Chelsea Harvey December 8, 2015
In a paper published on Monday in of the most glaring lacunae in these
Proceedings of the National Academy models,” said lead author Francis
of Sciences, scientists demonstrate Dennig, an assistant professor of
Curriculum Development Centre

the full rami¿cations of a widely economics at Yale-NUS College in
accepted theory about climate Singapore, in an email to The Post.
change: that it will almost certainly Dennig and his colleagues decided
have a disproportionate impact on to see what would happen if they
the poor. Acknowledging this fact tweaked a leading climate economy
in models they ¿nd can drastically model, known as RICE (the Regional

change estimates of how climate Integrated model of Climate and the
change will affect the economy, and Economy), to account for
leads to a deeply troubling conclusion inequalities within different regions
- climate change won’t just hit the of the world essentially
poor hardest, but it will exacerbate acknowledging that different
existing inequality within societies.
countries contain people of both
CDC
The disproportionate effect of climate higher and lower incomes. They
change on the poor isn’t a new idea. found that when they assumed a
But in general, while the economic scenario in which lower income
models used to inform climate sectors of society were hit hardest by
policies have accounted for income the effects of climate change, a key
inequalities between different factor in our understanding of the
countries or regions of the world, economic effects of climate change
they’ve failed to acknowledge that changed drastically in comparison to
these inequalities exist within models that didn’t take these
countries as well. inequalities into account.

“The lacking description of (Source: The Washington Post)
subregional/national inequality is one

1. Vocabulary in context
i. Read the following sentences, and choose the appropriate words from
the box below to complete the sentences.
excessive commercially pesticides insecticides
consumption ailments cultivation
a. His invention was popular but not ............... successful for it was not
bought by many people.
b. Local people complained about the ............... noise coming from the
dance bar.
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