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MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...
about it, a catastrophe will come at the end of the 21st century with an average temperature rise by 4.5 degrees centigrade, which will sharply reduce biodiversity. A great number of life forms, both higher and lower, will be destroyed. Even today, ecosystem destruction and environment pollution reduce biodiversity at a pace 500 times faster than in any era reconstructed by paleontologists.Biotic transformations under the impact of climate change will speed up radical changes of human life. Farming will become extremely hazardous as arable areas and yields will shrink. It will become necessary to invest huge sums in farming technology and agrochemicals-but they will not be enough to compensate losses as natural changes outpace human efforts.
The world will be doomed to social upheavals. People will flee en masse from countries suffering from famine due to water shortages. Emigration will threaten to reach a billion. Russia, with ample water and land resources,
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