The International Organisation for Migration thinks there will be 200m climate-change migrants by 2050, when the world’s population is set to peak at 9 billion. Others put the total at 700m. Full Story »
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The story scopes out concerns about migrations that will be forced by climate change. It helps make real the costs of failing to constrict carbon emissions.
Poverty campaigners want a revised legal regime to protect the new migrants. However, this looks tricky. America resists calling them “environmental refugees”: the word ... More »
This tries to emphasize an issue that has occasionally been referenced elsewhere. Although migration due to flood, drought, war, etc. have been with us since biblical times, the future seems to have a more massive impact than ever. And there aren't legal or economic structures to deal with it.
As harsh as the situation will be with the gradual change of our climate as implied by the article, it pales in comparison with what will result if ... More »