“Ordinary people suffer most.” China is the largest contributor to global warming, responsible for around 28% of carbon dioxide emissions that warm the Earth. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Chinese people are already suffering the brunt of climate change.
Wang Yuetang stands near what used to be his peanut farm before torrential rains submerged the lowland leaving him with no summer harvest near Xubao village in central China's Henan province on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. The flooding disaster in July is the worst that older farmers can remember in 40 years – but it is also a preview of the kind of extreme conditions the country is likely to face as the planet warms up, and weather patterns farmers depend upon are increasingly destabilized.
Three months after torrential rains flooded much of central China’s Henan province, stretches of the country’s flat agricultural heartland are still submerged in several inches of water. It’s one of the many calamities around the world that are giving urgency to the U.N. climate summit underway in Glasgow, Scotland.
On other nearby farms, shriveled beanstalks and rotted cabbage heads bob in the dank water, buzzing with flies. Some of the corn ears can be salvaged, but because the husks are moldy, they can be sold only as animal feed, bringing lower prices.
China, the most populous country in the world, with 1.4 billion people, is now the planet’s largest contributor to climate change, responsible for aroundof carbon dioxide emissions that warm the Earth, though the United States is the biggest polluter historically.
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