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• Wild fires create their own weather systems, generating fire storms with devastating effects.
• Global warming will increase the number of days of shimmering heat, creating the ideal conditions for fire.
• Global warming and El Niño combined suggest that the years ahead will result in increasing, devastating impacts.

Heat, air quality and health

• High temperatures cause heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular disease.
• People in informal settlements, and badly maintained and crowded buildings, are especially vulnerable to heat stress.

Less food, lower nutrition

• In South Africa, drought recurrently affects subsistence agriculture, livestock and commercial crops.
• The impact of drought on food and nutrition will be felt by the most vulnerable, including infants, small children and pregnant women and those who already live on or below the poverty line.
• Crop failure and drought, combined with increased food costs associated with disruptions to global food resources, will affect every one of us.

Every drop counts

• Humans require adequate hydration to survive, and the combination of increasing temperatures and water shortages heightens the risk of organ failure and death.
• In addition, dependence on poor quality and contaminated water has an impact on household and personal hygiene, and intestinal infections.

Neglected diseases

• Other viral and bacterial infectious diseases, especially prevalent in Africa, are also likely to increase with global warming.
• Bundled together as “neglected diseases of poverty”, these include both parasitic and viral vector borne diseases such as Rift Valley fever, malaria, filariasis, schistosomiasis, dengue fever, chikungunya and influenza as well as arboviruses such as different influenza pathogens.

So where does this leave us?

• When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988, we had a choice to interrupt climate change and slow global warming.
• This does not mean there is nothing we can do to halt the destruction of planetary life.

• Against a backdrop of geopolitical, supply chain and economic uncertainty, overall global VC investment is falling, but several sectors, including fintech and cleantech, are beneficiaries of more selective investments.
• This is despite global VC investment dropping to $120.2 billion across 8,420 deals in Q222.
• Soaring global energy prices and increased concerns around energy security has driven investors to look at alternative energy and storage options.
• Global VC investment dropped considerably, from $165.3 billion across 11,468 deals in Q122 to $120.2 billion across 8,420 deals in Q222.

• It continued: "Let's look at what might be ahead for gold in 2022 as analysts, especially those who work in the industry, are more positive about gold in 2022.
• He also points out that since 2000, "Gold has been up 86% of the time on an average annual basis."
• Alamos Gold Inc.(NYSE:AGI) (TSX:AGI)recently said it plans to release its first quarter 2022 financial results after market close on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
• The Company will hold its 2022 Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") on Thursday, May 26, 2022.