Can Thailand Climate Change ?
The impacts of climate change on Thailand namely prolonged droughts, decreased agricultural and fishery yields, violent flooding,sea level rise and health-related issues are already serious and will likely create or exacerbate a number of additional problems during the next few decades. These include water management challenges,heightening of class-related tensions, a flood of new immigrants and refugees, damage to the tourism industry and conflict with China over dam-building. While the government has begun framing policies to bothadapt to and mitigate climate change, its response so far has beenlimited due to shortcomings in both the planning and implementation processes. Thailand’s ongoing political crisis also diverts decision-maker’sattention away from this issue. In the coming decades, Thailand’sinstitutional structure and political economy will hinder its capacity to address climate change and, while these capacities will improve asthe country democratizes, it will still be limited. Consequently, climatechange will retard the country’s growth and enormously strain thecountry’s political system, state and society.
How Does Drought Affect Our Lives?
When we have a drought, it can affect our communities and our environment in many different ways. Everything in the environment is connected, just like everything in our communities is connected. Each different way that drought affects us is what we call an impact of drought. Drought affects our lives in many different ways because water is such an important part of so many of our activities. We need water to live, and animals and plants do too. We need water to grow the food we eat. We also use water for many different things in our lives, like washing dishes, cooking, bathing, and swimming or river rafting. Water is also used to help make the electricity we use to run the lights in our houses and the video games you may like to play. When we don’t have enough water for these activities because of a drought, many people and many different things will be affected in many different ways.