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Fears about global warming have spiked once again with the brutal heat wave sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere, taking land temperatures to 60C in some places.

Not to mention the severe and devastating flooding in the US and South Korea, making our current day look as apocalyptic as ever.

With this in mind, images predicting how 10 popular tourist destinations around the world could be hit by the climate crisis in just a matter of years are haunting and bleak.

Especially because the visuals – examining how natural disasters, flooding, acid rain, along with land erosion and rising sea levels, may alter some of the world’s most beloved landscapes by 2050 – don’t seem to be a far cry away from what we’re living through right now.

The HuffPost notes how DiscoverCars.com has worked with environment specialist Marish Cuenca to show how our environment is at threat.

Different areas will face different risks – Hawaii, for instance, is more likely to experience increased volcanic activity and earthquakes:

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While Egypt’s Greater Cairo area could have more acid rain which may erode the famous Pyramids of Giza:

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Rising sea levels could submerge the majority of London docks and suburbs near the Thames by 2050, meaning those famous tourist attractions – the London Eye, Parliament and London Bridge – might all be underwater:

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The streets of Kolkata, India and Manila, Philippines could be completely submerged in a matter of years, too:

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You get the idea.

It’s worth remembering that reducing climate emissions by 2050 is a major goalpost for governments around the world after they signed the Paris Agreement of 2016.

Including the EU, 194 parties pledged to “pursue efforts” to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C and keep them “well below” 2C compared to pre-industrial times. Beyond 1.5C, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists say climate change will reach an irreversible “tipping point”.

[source:huffpost]