This piece examines the effects of climate change in a detailed and lengthy discussion. The author reveals that climate change is beginning to affect most parts of the world, in both urban and rural areas and that climate change is not some new future phenomenon, rather, it is already taking place. "Climate change is transforming the entire world into a crisis area, though differently in each region. India has been afflicted, to be sure, but so has the southern tip of Africa. Temperatures in inland South Africa are already 2 degrees Celsius higher than they were 100 years ago, with a similar phenomenon having been observed in neighboring Botswana. The dry period is longer and longer, and when it does rain, it is increasingly in the form of torrential storms. But even as climate change looks slightly different everywhere you look, the consequences tend to be the same: chronic water shortages, paltry harvests and the death of livestock."