Climate change provoking mass human migration -- 50 million to be displaced this year

[Forkboy]

Climate change is provoking mass human migration. According to scientists, 50 million people worldwide will be displaced this year because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding, and other severe environmental changes.

A joint study by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) shows that in 2008 climate-related natural disasters forced 20 million people out of their homes. Research conducted by the Red Cross shows that more people today migrate due to environmental disaster than because of violent conflict.

Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs Director at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University is the author of a recently published study on linkages between climate change and migration in Mexico. The study is among the first attempts to put hard numbers to issues of "environmental migrants".

Oppenheimer told MediaGlobal, "In the future, we expect climate change to influence human migration through a variety of pathways. Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere and causing global warming and a multitude of climate changes, including shifts of ecosystems and species and acidification of the oceans."

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2010/08/climate-change-provoking-mass-human.html

[rucky]

1. I did not expect Mongolia to be on that list.

Bangladesh and the Pacific Island nations make sense. It would be interesting to find out how climate change affecting Mongolia, though.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Creeping desertification is driving Mongolians from rural to urban areas

http://www.cicero.uio.no/media/7543.pdf

[Kurovski]

2. K&R. (nt)

[Octafish]

3. We may all end up trying to eke out a living waaaay up north.

Even then, there's not enough lichen for everybody who'd want some.

[Forkboy]

5. Buckle up, it's going to be quite a ride this century.

[Octafish]

9. You are most correct. I'm old and fat, so they'll use me for fodder or heating fuel.

My kids and grandkids, people their age, they're the ones I worry about, my Friend.

And I pray: May the Creator of the Multiverse be merciful and kind to Us All.

Getting back to the point: The tundra is on fire. Wasn't that supposed to happen in, say, 50 years? The time to get off the shnide and do something about Climate Change was decades ago. We should have carbon scrubbers in place, cleaning polluted air, recycling the captured pollutants and putting them to use as fertilizer or Soylent Brown or whatever. Of course, we "can't" do that because it would cost money and, don't ever forget (while they pick your pockets and steal our future), we're broke.

I am so past pissed at what the treasonous greedheads have done to my country and planet, I'm trouble.

[Forkboy]

12. Your kids and grandkids will have to save themselves.

I'm almost 43, and I see little sign that my generation gets how bad it is. Just the opposite. The next generation shows much better signs, on this and a host of other topics.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. .

:wow: :hide:

[Furiousliberal]

6. We are fucked if people and politicians don't open their eyes soon :(

[Uncle Joe]

7. And it's only just beginning, we haven't seen shit yet.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Forkboy

[Forkboy]

10. Yep, this is just the start.

I don't think most people will ever awake in time to stop it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Time to re-read "The Sheep Look Up". nt

[Forkboy]

13. I had never heard of that book before.

But after looking it up you can bet I'll read it. :)