Today's New York Times article "Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms" reports on the changing perception of how to enact sustainable development solutions.
In an excerpt, "Robert O. Mendelsohn, an economist at Yale focused on climate, said that in the face of warming, it might be necessary to abandon the longstanding notion that all places might someday feed themselves. Poor regions reliant on unpredictable rainfall, he said, should be encouraged to shift people out of farming and into urban areas and import their food from northern countries."
An awareness of global warming trends may affect the University's development plans in Belize. The National Academy of Sciences published data from UCLA researchers in April 2006 that indicates that "parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to experience a significant summer drying trend by the middle of this century, ... The majority of the computer models calls for a substantial decrease in tropical rainfall to occur by 2054."
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