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The huge waves of human migration caused by climate changes will not only lead to suffering and death of millions, it will also bring us to the new brink of a n
by beders 5y ago
The huge waves of human migration caused by climate changes will not only lead to suffering and death of millions, it will also bring us to the new brink of a new world war.
Whole regions becoming unlivable will affect us all. We can't wait around until some invention saves us. We need to act now. We can turn this around with WWS alone.
- cwkoss 5y agoWhat is WWS in this context?
- h4waii 5y agoWind, Water, Sunlight.
- irrational 5y agoI personally would not buy property or a home south of the 45th parallel. I know people moving from Oregon to Texas because they disagree with how Oregon handled the pandemic. I think they are nuts in more ways than one.
- freeflight 5y agoIt's already happening but barely anybody notices because it's so politicized. Syria for example has been in over a decade of civil war, refugees spilling over deep into Europe affecting local politics, as the ME region was already saturated with displaced people trough Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet most peoples take on Syria is a regurgitated: "The Syrian people rose up against an evil dictator regime! Arab Summer!". When in reality the people in Syria went trough a 10 years period of drought [0] prior to "shit hitting the fan". A combination of the climate getting hotter while water is getting more scarce in the region, as Turkey controls the majority of freshwater inflow into Syria and large parts of Iraq [1]. An inflow that's steadily getting smaller, as Turkey is expanding its own agricultural infrastructure projects, with plenty of dams, in Southeastern Anatolia. In 2008 Syria sought more drought support from the UN, and particularly the US. The cable can be found on Wikileaks [2] and the warnings by the Syrian UN representative and minister of agriculture read pretty much prophetic in hindsight. [0] https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Full_Report_3074.pdf https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Fu... [1] https://climate-diplomacy.org/case-studies/turkey-syria-and-iraq-conflict-over-euphrates-tigris https://climate-diplomacy.org/case-studies/turkey-syria-and-... [2] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAMASCUS847_a.html https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAMASCUS847_a.html