A shifting climate won’t just stunt crops in poor countries, it could devastate their entire economic growth, warn economists (Images: Sipa Press/Rex)
Global warming will not only devastate agriculture in developing countries, it will undermine economic and political stability to a far greater extent than previously imagined, according to new study.
The link between “high temperatures and poor growth is much stronger than we’d realised”, says Benjamin Olken, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Crucially, says Olken, his team’s study is the first to link climate change with economic growth – as opposed to output – which…
