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We Are On the Move

Posted By mike On June 13, 2009 @ 11:56 am In News, Connect the Dots, Small Foot Print, Global Warming | No Comments

Thanks to Common Dreams for the article.

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Report Finds Climate Change a Detectable Driver of Migration

Some 200 million people could be on the move due to climate change by 2050

ATLANTA, Georgia - June 10 - Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the
consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope
and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before,
according to a report released today during climate change talks in
Germany.

Climate change is already contributing to migration
and displacement, the report from CARE, U.N. University and Columbia
University found. All major estimates project that the trend will rise
to tens of millions of migrants in coming years. Within the next few
decades, the consequences of climate change for human security efforts
could be devastating, according to the report entitled, [3] In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement.

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