Mark Maslin > Quotes

“One example of an ecosystem under threat is the coral reefs. Coral reefs are a valuable economic resource for”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“So the inability of many people to afford basic food, leading to malnutrition and starvation, can be linked directly to speculation on food prices on the global markets in London, New York, and Tokyo.”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“For small island nations, such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, a 1 m rise in sea level would flood up to 75%”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“According to the UN World Food Programme, we currently produce enough food to feed 10 billion people, easily enough to cover the predicted increase in population this century. But there are 821 million people on the brink of starvation today, up by 25 million in just five years. This is because they simply do not have”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“Using estimates of subsidence rate and global warming sea-level rise, the World Bank has estimated that by the end of the 21st century, the relative sea level in Bangladesh could rise by as much as 1.8 m.”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“As we have seen, the IPCC reports that sea level could rise by between 50 cm and 130 cm by 2100”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“hundreds of billions of dollars each year.”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“of the dry land, making the islands uninhabitable.”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

“enough money to buy food. Climate change”
― Mark Maslin, Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction