Changing Places
How will climate change affect people?
Banjul, The Gambia
It is not only Lamin's ground nut plantation that would be affected by a sudden change in climate.
Below are some statements about other possible climate change effects in The Gambia.
On paper put the statements into two categories:
- Ones which will occur if the climate gets warmer and wetter in the next 20 years
- Ones which will occur if the climate becomes warmer and drier in the next 20 years
- Coastal defences are destroyed again
- Banjul floods regularly
- Local people travel further to collect drinking water
- Beaches are washed away by storms
- Fewer tourists visit because it is too hot
- People import fruit and vegetables for the local market
- Houses made of earth bricks become weak
- Add your own.
Now look at other cities around the world.
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