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Resilience Building For Climate Change And Flooding In Informal Settlements
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Climate change means that the weather we are used to (temperature, rainfall, wind patterns) is changing and we are experiencing more extreme weather events. For example, wet summers are becoming more dry, and droughts, floods, big storms and heat waves are causing increasing disasters. This has happened because human activities cause global warming, which makes the earth warmer. Global warming is caused mainly by carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas, petrol) and methane gas from cattle and other sources being released into the atmosphere. This creates a blanket effect around the earth making it warmer. This changes weather patterns, which affects our lives and our livelihoods.
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