<i>Climate change and its perceived influence on the mankind is a very controversial subject, and today most of people's suffering from poverty and misgovernment has nothing to do with it.</i><p>The fact that a lot of people today suffer from poverty and misgovernment is indeed not entirely due to climate change (although there is dutch disease/resource curse: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse</a>)<p>However it is not hard to realize that those suffering right now will suffer even more were climate change effects as severe as some scientist predict, is it?