Opinion: Climate change is worsening the world’s refugee crisis. Here’s one way leaders can help

The Los Angeles Times ^ | July 7, 2023 | BY RWAIDA GHARIB

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Refugees bring very little across borders, but they cling to their stories. These days they mostly want to talk about the weather.

The refugees I work with often say the same thing: It got hot. Then hotter. Then the jobs dried up and eventually the food did too. Add in political, racial or religious tensions, or a natural disaster that was the final straw. It all led to the same conclusion: There is no future here.

And these are from the “lucky ones” who made it out.

Today there are millions of climate refugees — people who have fled their homes because changes in the local environment made living conditions unsustainable — and estimates suggest that there will be more than 1 billion by 2050. Despite this, no nation in the world offers asylum on the grounds of fleeing environmental or climate emergencies.

Given that climate is increasingly a key driver of migration, or one of the many compounding reasons that could force a family to leave their home, the guidelines for asylum should be updated and a formal definition for climate refugees must be determined.

If an official definition for climate refugees is developed, funding support for these migrants could also increase. Budgets now earmarked strictly for climate could help support the millions in need.

I sat with one young man who had been born in the camp, giving him no passport or birth certificate to enter Somalia or refugee status to enter Kenya. But he showed me a pixelated stock photo of a turquoise sea and stated, “One day I will go to the ocean.”

We need a formal climate asylum status so that he and the millions like him can find security and paths to a better life.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[knarf]

I’m gonn’a break into a bank and demand a million dollars because it’s too hot, and I want money to buy food, and other stuff.

[jerod]

I guess they could always jet about the world multiple times a year, going to climate change conferences and enjoy the local talent... Oh... That’s right... That’s what they already do.

[mountainlion]

More deep state propaganda,

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Here’s one way leaders can help

The most effective way leaders could help is by refusing entry, residency or citizenship paths to illegal aliens. Make it clear that entering a country illegally is not going to pay off and people will stay home and do their best to fix their own countries.

But of course, Western liberalism and common sense are completely orthogonal to each other.

[Mark17]

Yep, it’s BS.

[Williams]

How about stop encouraging “refugees”?

These leftists are sick in their heads.

[Sooth2222]

Since The-Beginning-Of-The-End-Of-The-World-A-We-Knew-It (Covid), population migration in the US has been from the cooler/colder, Democrat-run states to the warmer/hotter Republican states.

Numerically, the US population shift has been similar to the Dust Bowl/"Grapes of Wrath" 1934-1940 exodus so far, and we're just 3 years into it.

[Brian Griffin]

“It got hot. Then hotter.”

This is mainly because trees were chopped down.

One can go outside in Florida and stand in the sun or stand under a tree to quickly learn the importance of trees in hot climates.

[Dixie Yooper]

Tyrants are worsening the World’s refugee crisis. Here’s one way leaders can help. Quit being Tyrants!

[Wdempsey]

Booshwa

[MountainWalker]

The only way to solve real problems created by leftists is to sign onto leftist programs to solve imaginary problems.

[Brian Griffin]

Rather than work in an air-conditioned factory in the Third world they would rather be a roofer or do yard work in Texas or Florida.

Air conditioning works.

[Ex-Con777]

Good Lord!!! If it went up 1 degree, how could you feel it?

Oh, it’s the average. Then just as many border crossing scofflaws would be saying “It got cold, very cold. Then the crops didn’t grow.

Bull!

EC

[Libloather]

It got hot. Then hotter.

HOW HOT WAS IT?

It’s so hot I saw a funeral procession pull through a Dairy Queen.
It’s so hot cows are giving evaporated milk.
It’s so hot I saw a bird pull a worm out of the ground with an oven mitt.
It’s so hot the Statue of Liberty was asked to lower her arm.
It’s so hot I saw a chicken lay an omelette.
It’s so hot they installed a fan in the debt ceiling.
It’s so hot I discovered my seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.
It’s so hot people are breaking wind just to have a little breeze.
It’s so hot bums are holding signs that read, “Will work for shade.”
It’s so hot Jehovah’s Witnesses started telemarketing.
It’s so hot I saw a dog chase a cat – they were both walking.

[Sooth2222]

Maybe 50 years ago, I learned (in school) that we were at the end of an Ice Age and so of course it was going to get warmer.

[AppyPappy]

Climate Change. Is there anything it can’t do?

[BitWielder1]

The political climate in the world's hellholes, the permissive climate in the clueless West, the WEF fanning the flames, third world nations emptying their prisons and the Cartels making billions smuggling people and drugs has of course nothing to do with it.

[Obadiah]

The author is an Obama administration retread. According to her bio she is heavily involved in the globull warming propaganda industry.

[DaBroasta]

Climate Change. Is there anything it can’t do?

Pay for itself.