Reply #28: not only that, but poor countries/regions that had low emissions to begin with

[Lisa]

The Impacts section of the report (Working Group II, downloadable here http://www.ipcc.ch/ ) shows that Africa, for example, is going to be hit especially hard. Countries like Botswana, which have been trying so hard to develop their economies and avoid conflict, could be shoved back down the staircase it's taken them decades to climb. And meanwhile there are people in the G-8 (including my own country, Canada) who are claiming that it will only take "minor adaptation" to adjust to a warmer world, and that some areas that might actually benefit. Even if that part turns out to be true, it would just be another example of the rich taking from those who can least afford it.