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Where is climate change the root cause of mass migration?
by sverige 9y ago
Where is climate change the root cause of mass migration?
- domevent 9y agoHere’s one recent example: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links-syria-conflict-to-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links... And this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-already-causing-mass-human-migration-180949530/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-alr... And: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438707000786 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003043870... And: http://time.com/4024210/climate-change-migrants/ http://time.com/4024210/climate-change-migrants/ ... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/analysts-warn-of-increasing-link-between-climate-change-migration/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/analysts-warn...
- sverige 9y agoI don't see anything in these articles that proves that climate change is either the primary proximate cause or a necessary cause for the migration from the Middle East to Europe. It is still more simply explained by political expediency than it is by climate change.
- pjc50 9y agoAlso, resource collapse. Yemen is in the process of running out of water; either some large expensive solution needs to be deployed in a very poor country, or a million or more people need to move or die. https://thinkprogress.org/yemen-humanitarian-crisis-water-54a9c0b52831/ https://thinkprogress.org/yemen-humanitarian-crisis-water-54...
- nrb 9y agoWhere will climate change be the root cause of mass migration?