Might Climate Change Shape Society Due To Migration?
November 6, 2008 by Tommy Linsley
Filed under Climate Change
One of the major ways in which demographics changes is by migration of
populations. The first environmental refugees that can clearly attribute
their troubles to climate change have left their South Pacific islands
for the last time in recent years. The massive amount of development in
coastal areas that has taken place since the 1960s has increased the
worldwide population of vulnerable people drastically. It is thought
that as many as 40% of the people on Earth could be displaced if seas
rose half as high as some estimates.
Clearly, migration away from storm, flood, fire and desert ravaged areas
will cause great pressures on resources and natural environments. It
will also have an impact on people who are not used to being so closely
crowded together. For instance, if a nation founded on a given belief
looses its homeland, where can they set up a place to freely practice
their beliefs? Attempts at nation-building in the past have not met with
resounding success, to say the least.
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I see you are interested in global warming and everything else that comes with it. I would just like to share my disappointment at the outcome of the Copenhagen climate council. The summit was supposed to halt temperature rise by cutting greenhouse gases. But after two weeks of negotiating it ended in a weak political accord that does not force any country to reduce emissions and has no legal standing anyway. As a result the world is “one step closer to a humanitarian crisis”, according to the Royal Society. It looks like it is every man for themselves but if your far away neighbors don’t do anything to halt it, what is the point. Here in Scotland, Scottish Hydro has shown the way forward with supplying clean renewable Scottish power from sources like, hydro damns and wind turbine farms but is it all in vein? It could well be.