Climate-Change Refugees

The USA and other wealthy nations should prepare for a flood of
environmental refugees, and treat them the same as those who flee
political danger, international experts say.

The number of people fleeing the spread of deserts or climate-change
impacts such as drought and flooding is likely to hit 50 million within
a decade and soar to between 135 million and 200 million by 2050, Zafar
Adeel, a director of the United Nations University, said in an
interview yesterday from Frankfurt, Germany while en route to a
conference on the issue in Algiers, Algeria.

"Regardless of what the exact number is," it will swamp the current
global total of 19 million refugees from war, genocide and all other
threats.

vanbussche...

Low-lying areas such as Tahiti, in French Polynesia, are at risk from
rising sea levels. It has been suggested that the countries most
responsible for climate change - the developed nations that have
emitted the most greenhouse gases (USA and Canada) - should take
responsibility for hosting those displaced by climate change.

Jerry Okamura...

Not a chance of that happening.

Earl...

I can just see it now.

2009 the worlds leading emitter of CO2 (that is the actual
forcast!!) is China. (I think the current values are 25% of
total emissions for the US and 23 for China)

All Global Warming refugee claimants are shipped to China where
they work at minimum (Chinese) wages.

I know, the Left want them taken care of by us, but if we have
to follow the logic they are suggesting we ship them off to the
leading polluter.