Migration and climate change: A new (under) class of travellers

Economist by Addis Ababa, Lokichoggio | Jun. 29, 2009 (Special Report)
Victims of a warming world may be caught in a bureaucratic limbo unless things are done to ease—and better still, pre-empt—their travails

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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 by Naomi Isler - Jun. 29, 2009

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.

And there won't be for a long time.

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