Climate change is already reponsible for 300,000 deaths a year Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self Cyclone - South Asia - (courtesy: International Herald Tribune ) It is a very disturbing report. I think we all should take this “warning” very seriously. According to the Guardian Weekly, a think tank headed by former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, climate change is already reponsible for 300,000 deaths a year and is affecting 300m people. This first comprehensive study of the human impact of global warming from the Global Humanitarian Forum projects that projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, floods, storms amd forest fires will be responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths a year by 2030, making it the greatest humanitarian challenge the world faces. Economic losses due to climate change today amount to more than $125bn a year. The report further says that civil unrest may also increase because of weather-related even