Migrant tragedies will worsen as climate changes push more from homes

Reuters ^ | April 21, 2015 | By Michael Werz and Max Hoffman

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean is symptomatic of deep dislocation in the Sahel region and sub-Saharan Africa — dislocation exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change is affecting such basic environmental conditions as rainfall patterns and temperatures and is contributing to more frequent natural disasters like floods and droughts. Over the long term, these changing conditions can undermine the rural livelihoods of farming, herding and fishing. The resulting rural dislocation is a factor in people’s decisions to migrate.

Migratory decisions are complex, of course, and nobody would argue that climate change is the only factor driving them. But climate change cannot be ignored. The second-order effects of climate change — undermined agriculture and competition for water and food resources — can contribute to instability and to higher numbers of migrants.

Any effort to address the migrant tragedy playing out in the Mediterranean must address and incorporate these deeper-root causes. Though the warning signs have long been evident, policymakers still tend to focus on the symptoms rather than the causes.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[BenLurkin]

Only if “climate change” is another name for Islam.

[bray]

Marxism is a much bigger threat to the average person than any weather phenomena.

Pray America is waking

[I want the USA back]

They’re not migrants. They are a disaster in the making.

[headstamp 2]

Exactly. These tragedies are caused by failed states and Islam.

[Ragnar54]

The real “migrant tragedy” is that a lot of Muslims are making it to Europe, where they can breed like rats.

[PGR88]

Climate Change - is there anything it can’t do?

[khelus]

Only if “climate change” is another name for Islam.

or Jihadi violence

[PROCON]

Oh, and I'm sure the Obama Regime will take in a lot of these "climate refugees".

Staying locked and loaded.

[khelus]

Climate Change - is there anything it can’t do?

ROFL

[WayneS]

“Climate Change”.

So THAT’S what they’re calling ISIS this week.

[WayneS]

Maybe they are referring to changes in the political climate....

[WayneS]

Climate change is affecting such basic environmental conditions as rainfall patterns and temperatures and is contributing to more frequent natural disasters like floods and droughts. Over the long term, these changing conditions can undermine the rural livelihoods of farming, herding and fishing. The resulting rural dislocation is a factor in people’s decisions to migrate.

I'd be wiling to bet that an even greater factor in "people's decision to migrate" is having their farms and homes burned to the ground, their wives and daughters raped and sold in to slavery, and their sons kidnapped and forced to be "soldiers", by savage islamic invaders.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What was the name of the book published around 1970 in which there is a massive migration of third world people to Europe? The book ended with them standing on the shores of Africa looking north.

[Mears]

Was it this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

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[denydenydeny]

Migratory decisions are complex, of course, and nobody would argue that climate change is the only factor driving them. But...

"Nobody?" Try every single person with a political or financial interest in the AGW agenda.

[The_Reader_David]

No, the book ended with them landing in France. It was entitled Le Camp des Saints in the original French, and translated as The Camp of the Saints. There's an English translation available as an e-book from Amazon, and unless the translation is bad, it wasn't very well written, however poignant and spot-on its Cassandra-like warning was. It simultaneously compressed the time-scale and made the point obliquely by having the migrants be Hindus sailing in a huge flotilla of steam-ships from India all at once, rather than Muslims crossing the Mediterranean over the course of decades, though the author, Jean Raspail, in interviews indicated that he understood perfectly well where the real threat came from -- it would have just been too politically dangerous, even the 1970's to have made the mass migration Islamic.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

That’s it!

[Zeppo]

The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean is symptomatic of deep dislocation in the Sahel region and sub-Saharan Africa — dislocation exacerbated by climate change. Climate change is affecting such basic environmental conditions as rainfall patterns and temperatures and is contributing to more frequent natural disasters like floods and droughts. Over the long term, these changing conditions can undermine the rural livelihoods of farming, herding and fishing. The resulting rural dislocation is a factor in people’s decisions to migrate.

It must have taken a lot of effort by Michael Werz and Max Hoffman to pack so many half-truths and outright lies into such a short article.

This is nothing new. The Sahel region has faced droughts as well as surplus rainfall throughout the whole of human civilization.

[Cementjungle]

Global Warming causes subtle damage to the crops and foods people eat. Essentially, it's making people's necks weaker over time. We are already seeing people's heads fall off in places like Iraq and Libya, which scares other people into fleeing their countries.

The only logical solution for this is higher taxes... that fixes pretty much anything.