These poor regions are the most vulnerable as they face oncoming catastrophic disasters. However, climate change will also bring life threatening risks to the worldвЂ™s poorest people nearer the equator. Climate change is already bringing record-breaking hot summers to the UK, and as the ice melts the worldвЂ™s richest countries will gain access to the valuable Arctic shipping lanes. Like a dystopian sci-fi film, entire continental regions are morphing into barren deserts. It is already destroying harvests and causing sea-levels to rise. On the other hand, the countries which are least responsible for CO2 emissions ( lighter colours in Map 1), are the most likely to experience environmental disasters in the near future ( red in Map 2).Д¬limate change isnвЂ™t just a future вЂwhat-ifвЂ™ that only concerns scientists. The countries who are the largest contributors of climate change over the past 266 years, are now the least vulnerable to itвЂ™s impact. Richer countries will be able to handle their flooding and wildfires more easily than the natural disasters inevitably coming for the poorer countries.ДЄs you can see on the following maps, the positions of the darkest red coloured countries swaps on each map. The poorest countries will be hit the hardest. Top scientists at the UN, and The Economist have repeatedly warned us that whilst the rich are getting richer, climate change is having unequal impacts around the world. As countries get richer, they use more energy and produce more carbon dioxide. In recent years, other countries have joined the smoggy ranks. European and North American rich countries started this trend centuries ago. Years of burning petrol for cars, churning out single-use plastic from factories, and chopping down entire forests for their wood has opened PandoraвЂ™s Box, releasing climate change and environmental disasters onto our world.

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