· 1bn likely to be displaced by 2050, says report
· Environmental factors will exacerbate existing crisis
John Vidal, environment editor
Monday May 14, 2007
The Guardian
"A billion people - one in seven people on Earth today - could be forced to leave their homes over the next 50 years as the effects of climate change worsen an already serious migration crisis, a new report from Christian Aid predicts.
The report, which is based on latest UN population and climate change figures, says conflict, large-scale development projects and widespread environmental deterioration will combine to make life unsupportable for hundreds of millions of people, mostly in the Sahara belt, south Asia and the Middle East."
Whoa! What do you think about that? How's that for the effects of global warming? ( 0 _ o ) Scary!
2007-05-16
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