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It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.

I'm Anne Strain Champs.

How do you imagine climate change?

I mean, if you had to guess, how bad do you think it'll get?

There was a devastating heat wave in Europe in 2003.

That killed 40,000 people. By the end of the century, that will become an average summer.

Huge parts of the globe, the entire equatorial band and the tropics and even part of the subtropics

will become literally uninhabitable. By that I mean that any time spent outside at all will result in death.

A lot of South Florida, including Miami Beach,

will be entirely wiped off the map and basically devastated by regular flooding.

I think the estimates are that the flooding there will increase a hundredfold.

And much of Bangladesh, which is a much scarier scenario because there are hundreds of millions of people who live there.

50% more war.

Global GDP growth in half.

Huge famines across the world.

There's really no place on the planet that will be safe.

There will be no people on the planet who will be entirely protected.

Protected.

This is not make-believe.

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