Yet the truth is that children in general are better off and safer in the western industrialised world nowadays than they have ever been.

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But there is - the way to interpret this I think is that there is a discernible influence on all of these events, of global warming nowadays, and it's effecting drought, it's effecting extreme rainfall events in particular around the world.

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